The quid [67] of Ebang and her husband and that of the tikgi went together, so they knew that she was their daughter who had disappeared from their house one day long ago while they were in the fields.  In answer to their many questions, she told them that she had been in the bana-asi tree, where Kaboniyan [68] had carried her, until the day that she changed herself into the tikgi birds and went to the field of Ligi.

Ligi was very fond of the beautiful girl and he asked her parents if he might marry her.  They were very willing and decided on a price he should pay.  After the wedding all the people remained at his house, feasting and dancing for three months.

The Story of Sayen [69]

Tinguian

In the depths of a dark forest where people seldom went, lived a wizened old Alan. [70] The skin on her wrinkled face was as tough as a carabao hide, and her long arms with fingers pointing back from the wrist were horrible to look at.  Now this frightful creature had a son whose name was Sayen, and he was as handsome as his mother was ugly.  He was a brave man, also, and often went far away alone to fight.

On these journeys Sayen sometimes met beautiful girls, and though he wanted to marry, he could not decide upon one.  Hearing that one Danepan was more beautiful than any other, he determined to go and ask her to be his wife.

Now Danepan was very shy, and when she heard that Sayen was coming to her house she hid behind the door and sent her servant, Laey, out to meet him.  And so it happened that Sayen, not seeing Danepan, married Laey, thinking that she was her beautiful mistress.  He took her away to a house he had built at the edge of the forest, for though he wished to be near his old home, he dared not allow his bride to set eyes on his ugly mother.

For some time they lived happily together here, and then one day when Sayen was making a plow under his house, he heard Laey singing softly to their baby in the room above, and this is what she sang: 

“Sayen thinks I am Danepan, but Laey I am.  Sayen thinks I am Danepan, but Laey I am.”

When Sayen heard this he knew that he had been deceived, and he pondered long what he should do.

The next morning he went to the field to plow, for it was near the rice-planting time.  Before he left the house he called to his wife: 

“When the sun is straight above, you and the baby bring food to me, for I shall be busy in the field.”

Before he began to plow, however, he cut the bamboo supports of the bridge which led to the field, so that when Laey and the baby came with his food, they had no sooner stepped on the bridge than it went down with them and they were drowned.  Sayen was again free.  He took his spear and his shield and head-ax and went at once to the town of Danepan, and there he began killing the people on all sides.