View source for Tipua

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2019}}
In [[Māori mythology]], '''tipua''' or '''tupua''' are a type of differing shaped and often shape-shifting [[Spirit world (Spiritualism)|spirit]] or "uncanny thing".<ref Name="GUDGEON">{{cite book  | last = LIEUT COLONEL GUDGEON  C.M.G.  | title = Journal of the Polynesian Society: THE TIPUA-KURA AND OTHER MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SPIRIT WORLD | publisher = PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY BY WHITCOMBE & TOMBS LIMITED    | year = 1906  | location = Original from the University of California  | pages = 27  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hKAcAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA27&dq=Tipua+-wikipedia&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA28,M1  }}</ref>  Tipua were often associated with natural landmarks or phenomena but could also be more common objects; sometimes even trees and rocks<ref>[http://www.rangitane.iwi.nz/education/index.php/r/rakairuru Rakairuru] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522100603/http://www.rangitane.iwi.nz/education/index.php/r/rakairuru |date=2010-05-22 }}, Rangitāne o Wairarapa website.</ref> were associated as these types of spirits.

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Māori legendary creatures]]
[[Category:Mythological plants]]


{{Māori-myth-stub}}