[1] As a boy, Nanaue's mother, Kalei, told him to never eat meat as it would give him a craving for flesh.
When Nanaue worked, other workers took off his clothing, revealing his shark mouth on his back.
He bit many of the other men, and the King deduced that Nanaue was responsible for the disappearances of humans into the Kaneana cave.
There, he married the sister of a chief, and tried to stop his habit of eating people, but fell to the temptation and resumed his activities.
The people of Molokai prayed to the demigod Unauna, who burned Nanaue alive.