Little Forest Spirits
Fijian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
A spirit-class rather than a single named figure; entered as type 'deity' per schema (no separate spirit-class value permitted). Sex 'unknown' as the collective is not gendered. Attested in Fijian ethnography and the ANU Press study Degei's Descendants.
Domains
- wild forest
Powers
- dwell in hollow trees, caves and groves of the interior
Sources
- The Veli are a class of small, hairy bush-spirits of the Fijian interior, comparable to fairies or dwarfs, who dwell in trees and caves and occasionally interact with humans.: Geraghty, Paul (ed.). Degei's Descendants: Spirits, Place and People in Pre-Cession Fiji (ANU Press) (secondary); Fison, Lorimer. Tales from Old Fiji (1904), on the little sylvan people (secondary)