"When the king tide came last December, inundating the Carteret Islands, destroying precious crops and wells and turning homes into flotsam, the inhabitants, nominally Roman Catholic, turned for help to their forebears. “We thought maybe our ancestors were angry with us, that we were doing something that did not please them,” remembers Bernard Tunim, one of the clan chiefs. “So we killed a pig and had a big feast and told them that we are doing this because of the king tide and the swamping of the island, but nothing happened. Then we realised it was something else.”" - Demetrios the Traveller from Bookmarklet