In the Seniang district of southern Malekula the guardian of the road of the dead is a ghost-woman who sits beside a rock on which is traced the geometrical figure called Nahal, the path. As each ghost comes to her she erases half of the design; the dead must complete the missing half from memory to be allowed to go on, and one who cannot is destroyed. She is the same guardian, in her local name and setting, as the Le-hev-hev whom Layard describes for other districts, and the two accounts together fix the labyrinth-test as a belief held across Malekula rather than in one village only. The word temes, ghost or spirit, marks her nature as one of the dead who wards the passage of the newly dead.