The kahuna told them to lie in wait for Nanaue, and the next time he prophesied that a person would be eaten head and tail, to have some strong men seize him and pull off his kapa mantle, when a shark mouth would be found on his back.
The kahuna lapaau (medical priest) then said, "Open your mouth.
This trio were called by the old people the gods of the canoe-making priests--"Na akua aumakua o ka poe kahuna kalai waa.
This imposes on the victim the necessity of hiring a kahuna to pray down the other one, or of running away, if he cannot afford the expense.
When a Kanaka has endured an injury he hires a kahuna to pray his enemy to death.
Every kahuna claims what statesmen call a "pull" with his deities that enables him to have his prayers answered, while opposition kahunas are snubbed.
In order to make a prayer for death effectual the kahunamust possess himself of some object closely associated with the person he intends to kill.
After a couple of days the kahuna drops around to see how his victim is getting on, and generally he finds him in low spirits, with a meagre appetite, because this process is as reliable as its opposite, which is called faith-cure.
Kahuna number one delivers a veritable anathema, bestowing on his subject more aches and illnesses and deformities and difficulties than Pius IX.
The kahuna tells him that his conduct has displeased some god or goddess and that he must die.
The kahunaoften wore about his neck a fillet of this leaf.
A god of the kahuna anaana; meaning literally to breed maggots in the back.
The kahuna anaana, high priests of sorcery, of the black art, and of murder, to whom Kapo was at times procuress, made themselves known as such by the display of a red flag and the wearing of a red malo.
Like the incantation of the sorcerer, the kahuna ánaaná, it meant death to the eulogized one.
They agreed that it was possible for some powerful kahuna to present the ghost of the murdered maiden and so deceive the judges.
Then, by using the forces of spirit-land, while the kahuna chanted and used his charms, they pushed the spirit of Kahala slowly up the body until "the soul was once more restored to its beautiful tenement.
Long and earnestly the kahuna practised all the arts with which he was acquainted and yet completely failed.
Ia manawa a ke Kahuna i noi aku ai i kekahi lima, haawi mai la o Malaekahana i ka lima hema, me ka hoohuliia o ke alo o ka lima iluna.
Lalau iho la oia he wahi puaa, i mea alana aku imua o Kapukaihaoa, ke kahuna nana i malama ia Laielohelohe, a pii aku la.
Aka, aole i kaumaha kona manao no Laielohelohe, no ka mea, ua manao no kekahuna he pomaikai e ili mai ana maluna ona.
I ka la i laweia'i o Laielohelohe a kau iluna o na waa, ia manawa, lawe ae la ke kahuna i ka piko o kana hanai a lei iho la ma kona ai.
Ia manawa, nonoi aku la ke Kahuna ia Malaekahana e haawi mai i kekahi lima imua o ke alo o ke Kahuna, e like no me ka hailona mau o keia lahui, ma ka lima no nae ana e makemake ai e haawi aku imua o ke Kahuna.
The many known examples of their criminal use inclines us to believe that these kahuna were rather poisoners than magicians.
The unfortunate kahuna died fully persuaded that I was a more powerful sorcerer than he.
During the summer of the year 1852, while I was exploring the island of Kauai, I was near being the victim, under remarkable circumstances, of an old kahuna named Lilihae.
The priesthood, properly so called (Kahuna maoli, Kahuna pule), was hereditary.
The sacerdotal order had its origin in Paao, whose descendants have always been regarded as the Kahuna maoli.
The Kahunaanaana and the Kahunalapaau have never been considered as belonging to the high caste of Kahuna maoli.
A missionary, hearing of his remarkable powers, visited him and inquired about his ancestors, and among other questions asked him if he had become a heathen and allowed himself to become a kahunaor sorcerer.
The natives were stricken with terror at the sight, and dropped their paddles with the exclamation: "He is a kahuna (sorcerer) of the shark god.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kahuna" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
