The great spirit lives in the sky, and he is carrying the goods of the people. He says to himself, “To whom shall I give these goods which I am carrying? I shall take them to the earth.” He looked down onPage 177Bisau, for the people there promised to makeUbaya. Soon the people saw a man entering the town and they sent a man to prevent him29. He said, “Let me come in, for I bring goods for you. Your food and animals and other things which you need shall be increased.” After that he said, “Let all the people in the world know of this so that they will makeUbayafor me, and I will aid them also.”
Dayapán was a woman who lived in Ka-alang. For seven years she was sick. She went to the spring to bathe and while she was in the water a spirit sent by Kadaklan30entered her body. The spirit held sugar-cane and rice. He said to her, “Take this sugar-cane and rice and plant them in the ground. After you reap the sugar-cane and rice, you will build a bin to hold the rice, and a sugar mill for the cane; after that you will makeSayangand that will make you well.” Dayapán took those things and went back home. She planted the sugar-cane and rice. When she was planting, the spirit entered her body again and taught her how to plant. When she reaped the sugar-cane and rice, she began to makeSayang. The spirit Kabonīyan went again into her to teach her how to makeSayang. The spirit said, “Send a man to getbolo(bamboo) and weave it intotalapitap.31Takelonoandboloas big as a finger and makedakidak,31and put a jar with water upstairs in the house. Dancedaeng32for ten nights. You will pass seven evenings, then you will buildbalaua.33Send some persons to get wood and bamboo and rattan and cogon, and take ten baskets with cooked rice to follow the number of nights (i.e., on the first night one basket of cooked rice on thetalapitap; the second night, two; and so on). When you finish the time you will know how to makedawak32and to call all the spirits, and you will teach the people how to dodawak.”
When she finished thedawak, the spirit sent her to wash in the river as a sign that she had finishedSayang. He told her to get a dog and a cock. She went to the river and she tied the cock and the dog by the water, and while she was gone, the dog killed the cock. Dayapán wept, but for a long time the spirit did not come. When Kabonīyan came again, he said, “If the dog had not killed the cock, noPage 178person would die, but this is a sign and now somebody will die and some will be well.”
Dayapán went home and when she arrived there she began to learn to makedawak, and she called all people to hear her and she told all she had seen and heard. Then the people believed her very much. When somebody was sick, they called Dayapán to see them and to show them how to make them well. So Dayapán taught them all kinds ofdawakwhich the spirit had told her because before when Dayapán was sick, no one knew thedawak.34
Many years ago there was a woman whose name was Bagutayka. She had had only one daughter whose name was Bagan. A boy who lived in Lantágan wished to marry Bagan, but she did not wish to marry him because she had no vagina, and she was ashamed. Her mother said, “Take this little pot with pictures on the outside, and this sucker of banana and go to the roadside where people are passing. When people are passing, you will make them sick in their knees or feet.” Then poor Bagan went by the roadside. In a short time a man passed by her; after that he was sick in his knees and did not walk, he only lived in his house, and could not move his hands or feet. His parents were troubled to find medicine for him, for none they found did him good. They used all the medicine that they knew. Then Bagan went to see him in his house and told him to makebawī.35The sick man said to her, “How do we makebawī, for we have never heard about that?” Bagan said, “Bring me a white cloth, a basket of rice, some thread, a betel-nut, coconut, a rooster, andtoknang.”36They brought all of these, and Bagan took them. Then they built abawīin the garden and planted the sucker by it. They broke the coconut shell, killed the rooster, and took his feathers to put in the coconut husk, and they broke the coconut meat.
They madesablaunear thebawīand put the coconut meat in it. When they had done this, the man who was sick was as good as if he had not been sick, he could walk just as before. This is the way the Tinguian people learned to makebawī.
In the first times Kabonīyan told a sick man to go to the mango tree at the edge of the village. “Take a feather for your hair, a clay dishPage 179with oil, a headaxe, a spear, and a small jar ofbasi, when you go to the tree.” He did as he was bidden, and when he reached the tree thepīnáing38were there. “Ala! now kill a small pig and offer its blood mixed with rice. Oil the heads of the stones well, and decorate them with yellow head bands. When you do this Apadel will always guard the town.” The man and his companion always did as Kabonīyan said, and when they madebalaua, or were sick, or went to fight, they did this. They ate of the pig, they played thegansasand danced. All who obeyed were always well, but one man who urinated on the stones became crazy.
One day when the people were preparing to go and fight against Manabo,39they went to thepīnáing, and while they danced a red rooster with long tail feathers came out of the stones and walked around them. When they stopped dancing, he went again into the stones. Since that time a white cock has sometimes appeared and once a white dog came out while the people danced.
One night a man saw a woman, who wore a black cloth, walking near thepīnáing. When she would not speak to him, he cut her in the thigh with hisbolo.41She ran to the stones and vanished. Next morning the man went to the guardian stones and found one of them cut in the middle, as it is now. The man soon died of smallpox.
In the first times, the old men saw the stones traveling together down the river. Above them flew many blackbirds. Then the people went down to the river and watched the stones on their journey. After that they caught them and put them near to the gate of the town, where they still remain.
The evil spirit Ībwa once had a body like a man and used to visit the people. In those days they kept the body of the dead person seven days, and when the fat ran from the body they caught it and placed itPage 180in the grave.43One day when he visited a funeral, a man gave Ībwa some of this fat to drink. Since that time he has always been bad and always tries to eat the body of the dead and steals his clothes. He comes to the funeral with another evil spirit Akṓp, who has a large head, long slim arms and legs, but no body.
Kabonīyan has told us how to keep the evil spirits away, but if we fail to do as he said, they always make trouble.
A man died. He had a wife and married son. They buried him under the house and madebagongon.44After that his wife was in the field and was watching their corn. His daughter-in-law was in the house watching her baby. While she was swinging the baby, the dead man said, “Take thissaloyot45to Gadgadawan.” The girl took it. The spirit said to her, “Let me swing the baby and you cook thesaloyotin Gadgadawan.” When she cooked it, the spirit ate it, and he asked, “Where is your mother-in-law?” She said, “She is in the field watching the corn.” The spirit went there. When he reached there, his wife was afraid of him, but she did not run. He slept there that night with his wife, and he did what he wished with her that night. In the daytime he went away. His wife got big stomach, but had no baby, and died. The spirit did that because the fire for the dead man was not out yet and she had gone from the town before thekanyau46was past.
One man in Solay47said to another, “Tomorrow we meet on the mountain to get wild carabao.” The other man agreed, and early the next morning the first man set out on horseback. The second man died that night, but the first man did not know this. When he got to the place agreed, he said “Sh-sh” through his teeth, and the spirit of the dead answered a little way off. The man went towards the answer and signalled again. The spirit again answered, and then the man saw the spirit of the dead, which was very big, was running to catch him.Page 181He ran his horse at full speed, but the spirit was gaining when thelasta48on the saddle caught on a dead limb and was jerked away. “Very good that you leave that or I would take your life,” said the spirit. Then the man ran his horse until he got to Solay. When he got there, he could not get off his horse, for his legs were stuck very tight to each side of the horse, so a man had to pull each leg loose and lift him from the saddle. That is why we know that the spirits of the dead men sometimes do harm and go places.
A man and his wife were living in the field where they planted corn and rice. When they were there, the man died. The woman did not want to go to the town, because there was no one to watch the dead man. She could not bury him. The Ībwa49noticed that there was a dead man in the house. He sent one of his sons to get the dead man. When the Ībwa came in the house, the woman took the headaxes and cut him in the doorway. The Ībwa went under the house. His father could not wait for him; he sent his second son and his third son. The boys could not take the body, because they were afraid of the headaxes, for the woman had one in each hand. The Ībwa went there. He said to his sons, “Why do you not take the dead man?” His sons said, “We could not take him, because if we go up in the house the woman takes the two headaxes and tries to kill us.” Ībwa went up into the house; he broke the door of the house. He said to the woman, “Now I am your husband.” The Ībwa took the two ears of the dead man; he ate one and gave the other to the woman to chew, like betel-nut, to see the sign. The sign of the saliva was good. He made the woman's two breasts into one in the center of her chest. He took her to his house.
The stems of thealangtinare good charms against the spirits of the dead, and are often worn concealed in the hair or hat.
There were two brothers, and one died. The other went to hunt and killed a deer. While he had it over the fire to singe, his dead brother's spirit came to him.50Then the man began to cut the meat into small pieces, and as fast as he cut it up, the spirit ate it; and as fast as he ate it, the meat came out of his anus. When the meat was almostPage 182all gone, the man became very much afraid and started to run, and the spirit chased him. When he ran where somealangtingrew, the spirit stopped and said, “If you had not gone to thealangtin, I would have eaten you also.”
One person was dead in a town. They buried him under the house. They did not putbanal51and a plow iron over the grave. The Ībwa went there and saw there was nobanalon the grave, so he was not afraid. He went there and took the dead man. He put one foot of the dead man over each shoulder and let him hang down over his back. A man saw him while he was walking in the street. The man told the people in the town what he had seen. The people did not believe it and went to see the grave. No dead man there, only the clothes and mat.
It is good to put some branches of trees in the ground near your head when you sleep out doors, so the spirits can not spit on you, for if they do, you will die.
One man who had lost his carabao went to the mountains to find; and at night he did not find, so he lay down near the path to sleep. He did not put any branches near his head, and in the night an evil spirit came and wanted to eat him; but when the spirit saw that he had the skin disease, he did not care to eat, so he spit on him. The man got up and went home, but soon he got sick and died.
When Itneg52go to hunt or have to sleep anywhere that spirits can get them it is good to usesobosob53orbanal51under them for a mat.
Two men were in the mountains and had no mats to sleep on, so they pulled muchsobosoband put it under them. That night the evil spirits came to get them but did not come very near. The men heard them say that they wanted to get them, but that it was bad for them if they got near thesobosob, so they left them alone.
(Sobosobandbanalare sometimes put with the plow iron over a new grave as an added protection.)Page 183
In the first time, three Tinguian went to hunt. At night they lay down to sleep and one of them, who had akambaya,54had not gone to sleep when two spirits came near and saw him under the blanket. One turned to the other and said, “Here we have something to eat, for here is a little pig.” Then that man took the blanket from the other man and put his blanket in its place, and the spirits came and ate that man. So we know it is bad to use that kind of blanket when you go where the spirits can get.
A man and woman had a beautiful daughter whom they always kept in the house.55One day while they were away in the fields, the girl went outside to pound rice. While she pounded, the spirit Bayon who lives in the sky came to see her. He was like a fresh breeze. Then the girl was like a person asleep, for she could not see nor hear. When she awoke in the sky, she dropped her rice pounder so that it fell near her home and then the people knew she was above. Bayon changed her two breasts into one large one, which he placed in the middle of her chest. When her parents madeSayang, the mediums called Bayon and his wife to come. They still come when some one calls them in theSayang. The woman's name is Lokadya.
In the first times men went to the mountains to hunt deer and hogs. One man kept his dog in the open land outside of the forest, to wait for the game. While he waited there with his dog, the big bird Banog came to take him away; and it flew with him over the mountains near to Licuan.56The bird took him to her nest in the tree. There were two young birds in the nest. When the bird laid him in the nest he was on a branch of the tree. Three young pigs were in the nest. The bird went away to get animals. After it went away, the man cut the meat in small pieces for the young birds, and the man ate also because the tree was big and he could not go away. The bird brought deer and pigs all the time, and the man always cut the meat in small pieces. After a while the two young birds could fly near to the nest. When they were standing outside of the nest he held on to their wings and the birds flewPage 184down under the tree. Then the man took his bolo and cut off their heads and took them to his town and madelayog57for the heads. After the man'slayog, he wanted to go toalzados58town to fight them. He had been near to thealzadostown about one month.
While he was away, his wife died. He came back to the town and in the way he met his wife (her spirit) with a cow and two pigs. The man asked his wife where she was going. She said to him, “I am not a person any more, I am dead.” Her husband wanted to touch her hand and his wife gave only her shortest finger. Her husband said, “Wait a while for me, I will go with you.” His wife said, “If you go to our house, take the white chicken and you will see the footmarks of the cow and pigs.” He followed the footmarks, and while he was walking he saw his wife washing in the river, under the tree. She said, “You come and I go with you to own town (i.e., spirit town), and I will put you in the rice bin, because the people in the town will want to eat you in the nighttime; but if they come in the nighttime, you must take some of the feathers of the chicken and throw at them, and I will bring you something to eat.”
They went to the spirit town, and she put him in the rice bin, and gave him something to eat. In the evening, the spirits came to eat the man. The man took some of the feathers and threw at them. The spirits were afraid of the feathers. They did this every night, and his wife brought him something to eat every day. The spirits said to the man's wife, “We smell Īpogau.”59His wife said, “No Īpogau in here.” In about two weeks the feathers were nearly gone. Then his wife told him, “It is better for you to go home, because there are no more feathers. I will give you some rice for you to eat in the way. I will show you the road.” The man agreed, and they went in the way. She showed him the road. While the man was walking in the way he saw his town and he asked for his wife. They said his wife was dead and they had buried her under his house; then he madelayogfor his wife.
The father of Siagon60was head man of Patok. He walked one night on the road which goes to Domayko. In the road he saw a big man whom he thought was Padawil. Then he smelt a bad odor and knew it was aladag61He struck it with his whip and it said, “Hah.” It wasPage 185night and he ran very fast to the council house, and on the way he threw away his clothes. When they came to the place where the spirit had stood, they found a deep hole there like a carabao wallow.
Dalioya died; they put her in the ground under the house. After a while Baluga's rice was ripe and was ready to cut. Baluga went to cut it. He went home before dark from his field. Dalioya came out from the ground. She went to cut the rice for him. The next morning he went to cut the rice again. He saw the rice had been cut, but he did not know who cut it. He went home again before dark and went to cut the rice again the next morning. He saw again the rice cut by Dalioya, but he did not yet know who cut it. He said to himself, “I must wait for the person who comes to cut my rice.” After dark his wife came, and Baluga lay down very still; when Dalioya walked near him, he waked up and caught her. Dalioya said, “Let me go.” Baluga said, “No, I will not let you go.” She said, “If you come with me to get my life, I will be very glad.” “Yes,” said he. Then they went down in the ground where is the spirit's home. When they got there the spirits were sleeping. Dalioya said, “Take that green bamboo cup, because they put my life in it.” Baluga took it and they went up on the ground. One spirit waked up and said, “There are Baluga and his wife walking in our vine way.” All the spirits ran to catch them. When the spirits were going up in the vine, Baluga cut the vine with his bolo. The spirits fell down. Baluga and his wife went home. As soon as they reached their home, they made a party. There were many people there on that big day. They were drinkingbasi, eating rice and meat, and singing and dancing because they were having a good time. That party lasted two days. After that the people went home. Baluga and Dalioya went to cut their rice.
Thealan63once found the afterbirth outside the town and made it a real baby whose name was Sayen.
Sayen lived in Bᴇnbᴇn. He was very brave and often went to fight without companions.
He wanted to marry Danipán who lives in Kadalayapan, but she did not wish. She hid; so Sayen married her servant, thinking she was Danipán. The name of the servant was Laᴇy. Sayen took her home.Page 186They had one baby. One day Sayen was making a plow under the house. Laᴇy was in the house with her baby. She was singing in the house to her baby. “Sayen thinks I am Danipán, but I am Laᴇy, Laᴇy no aglagᴇ-lᴇ-gᴇy-lᴇy.” Sayen heard the song and said to himself that his wife was not Danipán. He went up into the house and said, “Take off your upper arm beads, and in the morning you will go to the fields with your baby, because I will go there to plow.” She said, “Yes.” In the morning he went there. He went to cut down the bamboo bridge. At noon his wife carried food to him. She took her baby with her. When she reached the bamboo bridge it fell with her and they fell into the water. Sayen went back to his house. When he got there, he took his headaxe, spear, and shield, and he went to Kadalayapan. When he got there, he began to kill the people of the town. When he had killed many people thelakay64called Danipán, “Come out, Sayen is killing many people of the town, because you did something bad to him.” She came out to Sayen and said to him, “Do not kill all the people, leave some of them so I can go to borrow fire from them.” Sayen answered her, “Take the betel-nut in my bag and cut it in two pieces for me to eat, for I am very tired.” She took the betel-nut from his bag and cut it in two pieces, and Sayen chewed the betel-nut. Sayen spat on some of the dead people and made them alive again and he married Danipán and took her to Bᴇnbᴇn.
When the people in Magisang65went to hunt deer and when they went to divide it, thekomau, a big spirit who looks like a man, and who kills people,66went to them to ask them, “How many did you catch?” If they had caught two they told him “Two,” and thekomausaid, “I caught two also.” When they went to their town, there were two dead people there in their town. Anytime they went to hunt thekomauasked them how many they had caught, and when they said how many, thekomaualways said he had that many, and when they reached the town that many were dead. Thekomaudid that often and many people were dead. The people in Magisang heard that Sayen was a very brave man and they went to him to tell him about thekomau. Sayen said to them, “I come, but I must hide by the trees. When thekomaucomes and asks you how many deer you have caught he will ask you where I am. You will say to him that you do not know where I am, because you did not hear of me yet. I am sure thekomauwill ask you where I am, because he will smell me.” The people said, “Yes.” They wentPage 187to hunt. When they reached the forest, they caught two deer and they went to the place where they singed and divided those deer which they had caught. While they were sitting there, thekomaucame to them and said, “How many have you?” They answered, “Two.” Thekomausaid, “I have two also. Sayen is here.” The people said, “We do not know about Sayen, where he is.” Then Sayen came out and killed thekomau.
Kabonīyan67went to Sayen in Bᴇnbᴇn and said, “Are you a brave man, Sayen? You are brave, because you killed thekomau.” Sayen said, “Yes, I am a brave man.” Kabonīyan said, “If you are a brave man, I will meet you in that place at a distance.” Sayen said, “Yes.” Kabonīyan told him the day when he would meet him, and Sayen was to stay in the lower place and Kabonīyan in the higher place. Sayen went there on that day. When he reached there and was waiting he heard a sound like a storm and said to himself, “Here is Kabonīyan.” Kabonīyan called to him, “Are you there, Sayen?” “I am here,” said Sayen. “Are you a brave man?” said Kabonīyan to Sayen. Sayen said, “Yes.” Kabonīyan said to him, “Catch this,” and he threw his spear. Sayen caught the spear. It was as big as a large tree. Kabonīyan asked, “Did you catch it?” “Yes,” said Sayen. “Here is again,” said Kabonīyan, and threw his headaxe. Sayen caught it. “Did you catch it, Sayen?” said Kabonīyan. Sayen said, “Yes.” The axe was as large as the end roof of a house. Kabonīyan said, “Here is again,” and threw his shield. Sayen caught it again. “Did you catch it, Sayen?” Sayen said, “Yes.” Kabonīyan said, “Here is again,” and threw a very big stone. Sayen caught it. “Did you catch it, Sayen?” said Kabonīyan. Sayen said, “Yes,” and Kabonīyan said to him, “Wait for me, I come down to you.” When Kabonīyan got there, he and Sayen fought face to face and they got tired, because Kabonīyan could not beat Sayen, and Sayen could not beat Kabonīyan. Sayen said, “I take my headaxe, because I am very tired.” Kabonīyan said, “Do not take your headaxe; you are a brave man; I will be your friend and we will go to fight anywhere.” Sayen said, “Yes.” Then they were friends and went to fight in many towns. If the people in the town caught them in the way when they went home from fighting, or when they were in the river, Sayen could be a fish and hide. They fought in one town. Sayen became a chicken after fighting. He went under the house where the chickens roost. He did that many times and the people in the town noticed that Sayen could be a chicken or a fish. When he came with Kabonīyan to the town to fightPage 188the people, he went under the house to the chickens' place. The people said to themselves, “We will put a fish trap there, because Sayen after fighting goes in the chicken coop.” They put a trap under the house by the coop. Sayen came in the town again to fight. After fighting he went under the house and he went into the trap, and the people caught and killed him.
This all happened not very long ago.
In the old times Malīlipeng was walking along the trail in the woods when he heard thealan68in the trees. He laid down on his face as if dead and thealanwho saw him began to wail, for they thought he was dead. When they brought gold and beads to place on him, he sprang up and drove them away. “Give us the one bead which isnagaba, or we will burn your house,” said thealan. The man refused. When he reached home his house was burned, but he still had the bead.
Two men went to hunt wild pig. They killed one, but had no fire to singe it, so one man climbed a tree to see if he could see where was a fire. He saw a little fire at a distance and went to get it. When he got where the fire was, he saw it was in the house of analan. He was very much afraid, but he went up and saw thealan, who had a baby, was asleep. He walked very quietly, but thealanwoke up and said, “What do you want?” “I want fire, for we have killed a little wild pig.” “Do not say little pig, but larger,” said thealan. “Larger,” said the man, for he was afraid. “Do not say larger, but big,” saidalan.“Big.” “Do not say big, but very big,” said thealan. “Very big,” said the man. Then thealangave him the fire, and she took her big basket and went with him to where the pig was. They singed the pig, and thealancut it up with her nails. Then she gave the liver to the man, and told him to take it to her house and feed the baby. The man went, but on the way he ate the liver. When he got to the house, he saw a big caldron with hot water on the fire. He took thealan'sbaby and put it in the hot water and then went back. “Did the baby eat well?” asked thealan. “Very well,” he answered. Then thealanput most of the meat in her basket and started home. The man told his companion what he had done and they were both very much afraid; so they ran to hide.
When thealangot home, she saw the baby dead in the water.Page 189Then she went to find the men. They had climbed a high tree which stood near the water, and when thealanlooked in the water, she saw them in it. She put her hand in the water and tried to get them, but could not; then she looked up and saw them again. “How did you get up there?” she asked. “We climbed up feet first.” Then thealanseized a vine and started up the tree feet first. When she had almost reached them, they cut the vine and thealanfell to the ground and was dead. The men came down from the tree and went to the house of thealan. When they got there, they saw three jars: the first was full of dung; the second, of beads; the third, of gold. They took the jars with the beads and gold and went home.
The earth, which is very flat, was made by the great spirit Kadaklan. He also made the sun and moon, which chase each other over and under the earth. Sometimes the moon almost catches the sun, but it always gets tired and gives up before it succeeds. The sun and moon are the lights of Kadaklan and so are the stones which are stars. The dog of Kadaklan is the lightning.
Kabonīyan once sent a flood which covered all the land. There was no place for the fire to go, so it went into the bamboo, the stones, and the iron. Now that is why you can get fire out of the bamboo and stones.
A man planted rice in the high land. When it was grown, he saw that something was eating it, though he had a fence around it. One night he went to watch his field. About midnight he heard many wings and saw some big animals with wings alight in his rice. He ran and caught one, and cut off its wings. The animal was pregnant and soon had a young one. Since then there have been horses on the earth, but people have never seen any more fly. You can see the place on the horse's legs where the wings used to be.
A lazy man was planting corn in the high land. He would plant a few seeds and then put his planting stick in the ground and lean back on it. After a while the stick grew there and was a tail, and the man became a monkey.69Page 190
A very lazy boy got a piece of sugar-cane and went home with it. When he got home, he told his mother to take off the outside of the stalk so he might eat it. His mother was angry to see him so lazy and told him that if he could not take it off himself, to stick it up his anus. He did so and became a monkey.
A very lazy girl would not learn to spin, and always pretended that she did not know how. One day she took the cotton and asked the women what to do with it. “Beat it out,” they said. Then she asked, “What shall I do with it then?” “Put it in a betel leaf on a stick and spin it.” Again she asked, “How shall I spin it?” “If you do not know how to spin, put the stick up your anus.” She did so, and became a monkey. After that there were many monkeys.
In an early time, the Tinguian were like thealzado,71and hunted heads. The men from one town started to another on the other side of the Abra river to get heads. While they were on the way, it rained very hard; and when they reached the river, they could not get across, so they prayed to the Spirit that he would give them wings to cross. They at once became birds; but when they reached the other side of the river, they could not resume the forms of men. Some of the men's wives had just died, and they had bark bands on their heads, as is the Tinguian custom. When these became birds, their heads were white; but those of the others were black, and so they are to this day.
A mother had a very lazy boy who could do nothing. One day she went away to get something, and she put a big basket over the boy. When she came home, she took the basket up, but instead of the boy there was a bird which flew away, crying “sigakok, sigakok, sigakok,”—“lazy, lazy, lazy.” And so that bird is calledsigakok.
A long time ago there was a young man who cut all the trees in a little wood. When he had cut up them, he burned them, and he planted rice in the field. In a few days the rice was ready to cut and the youngPage 191man went to find a girl for him to marry. He found a girl in the other town. He married her and he took her with him to his home. When they got home the man said to his wife, “Let us go to see our rice.” They went to see the rice. At midday they went home. The next day the man sent his wife to go to cut the rice. When she got to the rice, she thought to herself that she could not cut it in a month. Said she to herself, “I want to be a bird.” She lay down on the floor in a little house that the man had made. She put her hat over her to be her blanket. Then she became a bird which we callkakoknow. Her cloth became her feathers. In the morning the man went with some rice for his wife to eat. When he got there, he could not see his wife. He walked and walked, but he did not find her, then he came to the little house. He saw his wife's hat, and he picked it up. The bird flew away, crying “kakok, kakok.”
In the first time Ganoway was the man who possessed a dog which caught many deer; and Kabonīyan allowed. The dog pursued the deer which went in a cave in the rock. The dog went in also, and Ganoway followed into the hole in the rock. He walked, always following the dog which was barking, and he felt the shrubs which he touched. The shrubs all had fruit which tinkled when he touched them. Then he broke off those branches which tinkled as he touched them, and Kabonīyan allowed. He came to the end of the cave in the rock which was at the river Makatbay, and his dog was there, for he had already caught the deer, which was a buck. It was light in the place where he was, at the river Makatbay, and he looked at the shrub which he had broken off in the dark place in the cave. He saw that the shrub wasdenglaywhich bore fruit—the choice agate bead, which is good for the Tinguian dress. He was glad. He cut up the deer into pieces and placed it on a bamboo pole which he carried. He thought always of the beads and wished to return to that shrub which he touched. He returned and searched, but was not able to find it, and because he failed he returned to his home in An-nay. There was not one who did not envy him those beads which he brought home, and they asked him to show them the way to the cave. He showed them the hole in the rock where he and his dog had gone in. They took torches and walked, always walked, but at last they were not able to go further, for the rest of the cave was closed. That place is now called Ganoway, for he was the one who secured the beads which grew in the cave of Kabonīyan, which cave the spirit always keeps clean.72Page 192
Magsawī, my jar, when it was not yet broken talked softly, but now its lines are broken, and the low tones are insufficient for us to understand. The jar was not made where the Chinese are, but belongs to the spirits or Kabonīyan, because my father and grandfather, from whom I inherited it, said that in the first times they (the Tinguian) hunted Magsawī on the mountains and in the wooded hills. My ancestors thought that their dog had brought a deer to bay, which he was catching, and they hurried to assist it. They saw the jar and tried to catch it but were unable; sometimes it disappeared, sometimes it appeared again, and because they could not catch it they went again to the wooded hill on their way to their town. Then they heard a voice speaking words which they understood, but they could see no man. The words it spoke were: “You secure a pig, a sow without young, and take its blood, so that you may catch the jar which your dog pursued.” They obeyed and went to secure the blood. The dog again brought to bay the jar which belonged to Kabonīyan. They plainly saw the jar go through a hole in the rock which is a cave, and there it was cornered so that they captured the pretty jar which is Magsawī, which I inherited.
(Told by Cabildo, of Patok, the owner of the famous talking jar, Magsawī.)