‘O Kīpahulu ka ‘āina o ka makani kā’ili aloha. Kīpahulu is the land of the love snatching wind. Our makani blows from mauka to makai. This mo’olelo tells of a wahine who was drawn back to Kipahulu after leaving her kane. The kā’ili aloha wind of Kipahulu continues to ensnare people.

The love-snatching wind of Kīpahulu:

A woman of Kīpahulu, Maui, listened to the entreaties of a man from O’ahu and left her husband and children to go with him to his home island. Her husband missed her very much and grieved. He mentioned his grief to a kahuna skilled in hana aloha sorcery, who told the man to find a container with a lid. The man was told to talk into it, telling of his love for his wife. Then the kahuna uttered an incantation into the container, closed it, and hurled it into the sea. The wife was fishing one morning at Kalia, O’ahu, when she saw a container floating in on a wave. She picked it up and opened it, whereupon a great longing possessed her to go home. She walked until she found a canoe to take her to Maui (Pukui 237).