Dokonikani is the man-eating ogre of Massim folktale, a giant who devours human beings and whose defeat by a cunning hero is a favourite theme of the region's story-tellers. Tales of him circulate through the Massim and the D'Entrecasteaux, and cognate ogre-narratives were recorded on Goodenough Island by Jenness and Ballantyne. He personifies the wild, anti-social appetite that Massim narrative repeatedly opposes to the ordered sharing of food, and in most versions he is outwitted and slain, his hoarded victims released.