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TIURAI, whose real name was TAHIARUA
ONOHI MIHINOA A TATI (1842-1918), was
a famous Tahitian traditional healer.
He was born in Papara on 1 July 1842
and was baptised on 25 June 1858 in
Punaauia by Bishop Jaussen. He was a tall,
broad-shouldered and handsome man with
an authoritarian look. Wearing a simple
pareo, he lived a solitary life, near Punaauia
cemetery. He was not interested in money
at all, and never collected any money from
the ill people who would flock daily to his
place and whom he nursed with herbs. Like
many healers of his kind, carrying on their
activity among simple populations who
were fond of fantasy and without much
critical thinking, Tiurai was credited with
the most extraordinary healings. He died
from the Spanish influenza, on 5 December
1918. He was buried behind the Roman
Catholic Cemetery of Punaauia.
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