Tamaiti

spirit · Tonga · Pacific

Not independently attested as a distinct spirit of Tongan folklore. The word tamaiti simply means 'child' in Tongan, with cognates across Polynesian languages; no source documents a child-ghost named 'Tamaiti' haunting playgrounds and village commons. The entry is a generic children's-spirit archetype rather than a recorded Tongan figure, and no Tongan child-ghost tradition bears this name.

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