55

The spirit Bayon steals a beautiful girl and carries her to the sky, where he changes her breasts into one and marries her.  She drops her rice pounder to the earth, and thus her people learn of her fate.  Both she and her husband still attend certain ceremonies.

56

A hunter is carried away by a great bird.  He is placed in the nest with its young and aids in feeding them.  When they are large, he holds on to them, and jumps safely to the ground.  He goes to fight against his enemies.  While he is gone his wife dies.  Upon his return he sees her spirit driving a cow and two pigs.  He follows her to the spirit’s town and is hidden in a rice bin.  When spirits try to get him during the night, he repels them by throwing feathers.  Feathers become exhausted, and he is forced to return home.

57

A man encounters a large being, which, from its odor, he recognizes as the spirit of a dead man.  He runs to get his friends, and they find the spot trampled like a carabao wallow.

58

The dead wife of Baluga harvests his rice during the nighttime.  He hides and captures her.  They go together to the spirit town, in the ground, and secure her spirit which is kept in a green bamboo cup.  As they are returning to the ground they are pursued, but Baluga cuts the vine on which their pursuers are climbing.  When they reach home, they hold a great celebration.

59

An alan takes the afterbirth and causes it to become a real child named Sayen.  Afterbirth child marries a servant, thinking he has married her mistress.  Learns he is deceived, and causes death of his wife; then kills many people in the town of the girl who has deceived him.  She gets him to desist, and after he revives some of the slain marries him.  People of neighboring town are troubled by the komau, an evil spirit, who always causes the death of as many people as the hunters have secured deer.  Sayen kills the komau.  He fights with the great spirit Kaboniyan.  Neither is able to overcome the other, so they become friends.  They fight together against their enemies.  Sayen often changes himself into a fish or chicken, and hides after a fight.  This is observed by people who set a trap and capture him.  He is killed.

60

A man while in the woods hears the alan near him.  He feigns death and the spirits weep for him.  They put gold and beads on the body.  He springs up and seizes the offerings.  They demand the return of one bead; he refuses, and the spirits burn his house.

61

Two men who have killed a wild pig desire fire.  One goes to house of an alan and tries to secure it while the spirit sleeps.  She awakes and goes with the man to the pig.  Man carries liver of the animal back to the baby alan.  He eats the liver and then throws the child into a caldron of hot water.  He tells his companion what he has done, and they climb a tree near the water.  The alan discovers their hiding place by seeing their reflection in the water.  She climbs up, feet first, but they cut the vine on which she is ascending, and she is killed.  They go to her house and secure a jar of beads and a jar of gold.