Little Forest Spirits

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

• Geraghty, Paul (ed.). Degei's Descendants: Spirits, Place and People in Pre-Cession Fiji (ANU Press)
• Fison, Lorimer. Tales from Old Fiji (1904), on the little sylvan people