Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore by Fay-Cooper Cole
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afternoon the old woman Alokotán began to sing _da-eng_ [103] and the
next night they sang _da-eng_ again. Not long after they commanded to pound rice, and Aponibolinayen used magic so that many women went to pound with them. [104] And Ini-init practiced magic so that they had many neighbors, and many who went to pound rice with them. Soon they commanded to get the timbers for the _balaua_, and they prepared everything which they needed. When it became morning they built _balaua_, and not long after they went to get the prepared betel-nut, which is covered with gold, which they sent to invite their relatives. [105] When they arrived--those prepared betel-nuts which were covered with gold--they oiled them at the beginning of the night, and sent them to invite. Aponibolinayen said, "I will use magic, so that you, betel-nut, may reach the town of our relatives so that you invite all of them. When there is one who will not come, you grow on their knees, as long as they do not come." Not long after they made _Libon_ [106] in the beginning of the night. Those betel-nuts, whom they sent to invite, arrived, those which they sent to invite their relatives. They did not wish to go to make _balaua_. The betel-nuts who went to invite them said, "If you do not wish to come, I will grow on your knee." Pagatipánan said, "You grow," and the betel-nut grew on his knee, and it became high and he was in pain. "Ala! you get off my knee, and you go on my pig," he said, and the betel-nut went truly on his pig and it squealed. "You get off my pig, and we will come," he said, and the betel-nut truly got off the pig. "Ala! you who live in the same town, you go and wash your hair and bathe, and wash your clothes so that we can go to make |
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