Kanewabe is a giant of Daribi myth from whom the izara-bidi, a class of ancestral ghosts, are held to originate. He belongs to the same body of narrative, recorded by Wagner, that accounts for the dead and their continuing presence: the ghosts of the deceased (izibidi) travel by night along watercourses and gather at an ill-defined place to the west, and the living fear their displeasure, guard against them, and summon them for reconciliation in the habu communion.