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live he saw her. "How angry you were, Ligi; you killed your son," said 

 Aponibolinayen, and Ligi bent his head, for he did not know it was his 

 son. "I will use magic so that when I whip my perfume alikadakad 

 he will stand up." l So the little boy stood up at once. Not long after 

 she used her power again, and whipped her perfume dagimonau so that 

 her son awoke. He woke up and said, "How long my sleep is!" "No, 

 do not say that; your father killed you." She wanted to take him back 

 to Matawltawen, but Ligi prevented them and he begged them to for- 

 give him, and Aponibolinayen said, "No, we will go back, for you did 

 not want us and you put us there." So they went to Matawltawen 

 and Ligi followed them. As soon as they arrived at the spring of 

 Matawltawen Aponibolinayen used her power. "I use my power so 

 that Ligi cannot see us, and the trail will become filled with thorns." 2 

 Not long after Ligi could not walk in the trail and he could not see them, 

 and he was very sorry. He laid down, because he could not follow them 

 and his hair grew like vines along the ground; and he did not eat, for 

 he was always sorry about the things he had done to his wife and son. 

 Not long after they forgave him and went to get him, and they all went 

 back to Kadalayapan. Ligi commanded his spirit attendants to take 

 his sweethearts and kill them, for they told falsehoods about Aponi- 

 bolinayen, so that he did not want her any more. This is all. 

 (Told by Magwati of Lagangilang.) 



13 



There was a husband and wife who were Aponltolau and Aponi- 

 bolinayen. Aponltolau laid down in their balaua and Aponibolinayen 

 was in the house and she had a headache. "I am anxious to eat the fruit 

 of the orange tree which belongs to Gawlgawen of Adasen," said Aponi- 

 bolinayen. Aponltolau heard her. "What is that?" he said to her. 

 "I am anxious to eat the biw z of Matawltawen." "Give me a sack 

 and I will go to get it," said Aponltolau, and he went. As soon as 

 Aponltolau filled the sack with biw he went back home. As soon as he 

 arrived in their house, "Here is the fruit you wished, Aponibolinayen. 

 Come and get." "Put it on the bamboo hanger above the fire, and I 

 will go and get some to eat when my head does not feel so badly, for I 

 cannot get up yet." So Aponltolau went to put the fruit on the hanger 

 above the fire and he laid down again in the balaua. 



As soon as Aponltolau laid down in the balaua, Aponibolinayen went 

 to the kitchen and peeled one of the biw fruit and she ate it truly. As 



1 See p. 18, note I. 



2 See p. 17, note 1. 



3 A fruit. 



