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Aponitolau falls in love with girl he meets at the spring.  They chew betel-nuts and tell their names.  Girl gives false name and vanishes.  Aponitolau sends his mother to arrange for his marriage with the girl.  She wears a hat which is like a bird, and it gives her a bad sign, but she goes on.  She crosses river by using her belt as a raft.  The girl’s parents agree to the match and price to be paid.  Girl accepts a little jar and agate beads as engagement present.  When Aponitolau goes to claim bride, he finds he is betrothed to wrong girl.  His parents celebrate Sayang and invite many people, hoping to learn identity of girl at spring.  She does not attend, but Aponitolau finds her among betel-nuts brought him by the spirit helpers.  They chew betel-nuts and learn they are related and that both possess magical power.

After their marriage Aponitolau goes to his field.  There he keeps many kinds of jars which act like cattle.  He feeds them with lawed leaves and salt.  While he is gone, the woman to whom he was first betrothed kills his new wife.  He restores her to life.  Takes her and her parents to the field to see him feed his jars.

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A bird directs Aponitolau in his search for the maiden Asibowan.  Girl furnishes him with food by cooking a fish stick.  They have a daughter who grows one span each time she is bathed.  Aponitolau discovers that his parents are searching for him, and determines to go home.  Asibowan refuses to accompany him, but uses magic and transfers him and child to his town.

Aponitolau falls in love with girl he sees bathing, and his mother goes to consult her parents.  She crosses river by using her belt as a raft; when she bathes, the drops of water from her body become agate beads.  The girl’s people agree to the marriage and accept payment for her.

Aponitolau and his bride celebrate Sayang and send out betel-nuts to invite the guests.  Asibowan refuses to attend, but a betel-nut grows on her pig until, out of pity, she consents.

After the ceremony the brother of the bride turns himself into a firefly and follows her new sister-in-law.  Later he again assumes human form and secures her as his wife.

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The mother of Gawigawen is well received when she goes to seek a wife for her son.  The girl’s mother furnishes fish by breaking and cooking the fish stick.  A day is set for payment of the marriage price.  Guests assemble and dance.  When bride dances she is so beautiful that sunshine vanishes, water from the river comes up into the town and fish bite her heels.  When she arrives at her husband’s home, she finds sands and grass of spring are made up of beads, and the walk and place to set jars are large plates.  Her husband cuts off head of an old man and a new spring appears; his blood becomes beads and his body a great shade tree.  Bride who has not yet seen the face of her husband is misled by evil tales of jealous women, and believes him to be a monster.  During night she turns to oil, slips through floor and escapes.  In jungle she meets rooster and monkey, who tell her she is mistaken and advise her to return home.  She continues her way and finally reaches ocean.  Is carried across by a carabao which at once informs its master of the girl’s presence.