64 Traditions of the Tinguian 



wen paid before, we will repay to him." Aponlbalagen agreed, "You 

 fill my balaua nine times with valuable things." Not long after they 

 filled the balaua nine times with valuable things and they repaid Gawiga- 

 wen what he had paid when he married Aponlbolinayen. When they 

 had paid they danced again. "Ala, now we must go home, for we have 

 staid here a month," said the people from the other towns. So they 

 went home and they took Aponibolinayen's marriage price. 



"Ala, now my cousin alan, we are going to take Aponltolau l home for 

 you have said he is our son," and the alan said, "Yes, take all of my 

 things. I took him for I had no children to inherit my possessions." So 

 they took them to Kadalayapan. The alan went to the other part of the 

 world, and Langa-an used magic so that the golden house which the alan 

 gave to Aponltolau went to their town of Kadalayapan. Not long after 

 the golden house arrived and the people were surprised when they woke 

 up in the morning and saw the big golden house. Not long after Aponl- 

 tolau and Aponlbolinayen and their father arrived there. 



(Told by Magwati of Lagangilang.) 



There was a woman whose name was Ginambo of Gonlgonan, who 

 went to fight Aponlbolinayen of Kaodanan. When she reached the place 

 where the spring was she said, "You people who are dipping water from 

 the spring, whose place is this where the spring is?" "It belongs to 

 Aponlbolinayen of Kaodanan," they said and when they went up to the 

 town they raised a clamor. "What are you so noisy about, you women 

 who are like me?" said Aponlbolinayen. "You ask why we are noisy? 

 Because there are many women, who have come to fight against you, at 

 the place where the spring is," they said, and Aponlbolinayen hurried 

 to take her spear. "What are you so noisy for, women like Aponlbolina- 

 yen?" asked her father Pagatipanan. "What are we noisy about, you 

 ask? Because there are many of my enemies at the spring." "Do not 

 go Aponlbolinayen, for I will go." "No for you are weak. What can 

 you do now? Once you did kill people in the place where the spring is, 

 and now perhaps it is my fortune," she said, and she went to the spring. 

 She looked down and truly the enemies looked like many locusts about 

 the spring." "Ala," said Ginambo of Gonlgonan, "You people who live 

 with me, you are anxious to carry away this woman whom we do not 

 like." "Yes," they answered, "but only our names will go back to the 

 towns we came from," i.e. they expected to be killed. Ginambo an- 

 swered, "No, we are anxious to capture her without fail." 



1 Kadayadawan is re-named Aponltolau by his new-found parents. 



