Legends and other ancient beliefs are still well alive in Raivavae. Formerly, there were numerous stone-made tikis. They represented divinities by the Polynesians. But in 1933, person mandated by a colonist who supposedly bought the tikis came to move them. They died in mysterious circumstances and the same feat touched the people who tried in the aftermath to displace the famous idols, thus testifying that the Polynesian superstitions that pretented the tikis were gifted with a mysterious power.