Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 393 pages of information about Traditions of the Tinguian.

Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 393 pages of information about Traditions of the Tinguian.

Not long after they went up to the gate of the town and they agreed on the marriage price when Dumanagan should marry Aponibolinayen.  They said the price was the balaua filled nine times.  Not long after when they had paid they all danced.  Then the people went back home and Aponibalagen and his people went back home also.

Not long after Aponibolinayen was very anxious to eat biw fruit of Tagapolo.  So Dumanagan went to get it for her.  He arrived where the biw was and he got some, and in a short time he returned to Kadalayapan and he gave the fruit to his wife to eat.  As soon as she ate it she became well again.  After seven months she gave birth and they called the boy Asbinan.  As soon as the boy became large he went to play with the girls.

As soon as Asigowan of Nagwatowatan noticed the braveness of Asbinan she made balaua, and she commanded the people to pound rice.  Not long after she commanded the betel-nuts to go and invite their relatives.  The betel-nuts went to all the towns in the world and invited all the people.  The next day they oiled the gansas and the people played them and all the people who heard them danced for they liked the sound of them very much.  So Asbinan went to attend the balaua.  All the people arrived at the place by the spring and a big storm came and wet all of them.  Not long after the people who lived in the same town as Asigowan, which was the town of Nagwatowatan, went to meet them at the spring, to give them dry clothes.  They changed their clothes and went up to the town.  As soon as they all danced Asbinan saw Asigowan and he wanted to marry her.  So he gave her betel-nut to chew and they told their names, and when they had told their names their quids showed that it was good for them to marry.  The father and mother of Asigowan were Gagelagatan and Dinowagan, but she lived with the alan.  Her father and mother did not know her until she made balaua and Asbinan did not know her until the balaua, then he married her at once.

As soon as he married her all his concubines used their magic power so that while he was living with Asigowan she would cut her finger.  Not long after she truly cut her finger and died.  They put her in the tabalang [288] which had a rooster on top of it.  Then all the concubines of Asbinan were glad.  Not long after they sent the tabalang along the stream and the rooster on top of it crowed, and the old woman Alokotan went to see it.  She stopped the tabalang and took out the body of the dead person.  Not long after she made her alive again.  As soon as she made her alive again she put her in a well and she became a beautiful girl.  Not long after she became a bird and she flew back to the place where Asbinan lived.  The bird flew above him, and he tried to catch it.  When he could not catch her, she went to the top of a tree, and Asbinan went into his house and he was sorrowful,

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