An Hawaiian Near-Death Experience

Allan Kellehear

doi:10.17514/JNDS-2001-20-1-p31-35.

An Hawaiian Near-Death Experience

Allan Kellehear^*

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Abstract

This paper is a case report of an Hawaiian near-death experience (NDE) from the early 1900s, which was uncovered in a turn-of-the-century monograph of Hawaiian folk tales (Thrum, 1907). The account differs from others in the same volume because it appears to be a real-life account rather than a folk tale. I describe similarities and differences from other Pacific area accounts, with particular attention to the only other Polynesian NDE account in the literature, a Maori NDE reported by Michael King in 1985.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	31-35
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Near-Death Studies
Volume	20
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.17514/JNDS-2001-20-1-p31-35.
Publication status	Published - 2001
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

culture
history
case-study
Polynesia

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