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 Ipogau.” [361] His wife said, “No Ipogau 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 made layog for his wife.

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The father of Siagon [362] was 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 a ladag [363] He struck it with his whip and it said, “Hah.”  It was night 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.

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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