n6 Traditions of the Tinguian 



Dapillsan, and Tabyayen married Binaklingan, and the marriage price 

 was the balaua about nine times full for each of them. As soon as they 

 both were married Tabyayen staid in his house which had been up in 

 the air before. Kanag staid in another house which Aponltolau and 

 Aponibolinayen had. 



(Told by Angtan of Lagangilang.) 



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"Look out for our children, Llgi, while I wash my hair," said Ayo. 

 "Yes," said Llgi. As soon as Ayo reached the spring Llgi went to make 

 a basket, in which he put the three little pigs which had little beads 

 around their necks. As soon as he made the basket he put the three 

 little pigs in it, and he climbed a tree and he hung the basket in it. Not 

 long after he went down and Ayo went back, home from the well. 

 "Where are our children — the little pigs — P'^ 1 said Ayo to him. As 

 soon as Llgi said he did not know, Ayo began to search for them, but 

 she did not find them. 



The little pigs which Llgi hung in the tree grunted, "GEk, gEk, 

 gEk," and the old woman, Alokotan of Nagbotobotan, went to take a 

 walk. While she was walking she stopped under the tree where the 

 pigs hung. She heard them grunting and she looked up at them and 

 saw that the basket contained three pigs. "What man hung those 

 little pigs in the basket in the tree? Perhaps he does not like them. I 

 am going to get them and take them home, so that I will have something 

 to feed." So she got them. She took them home, and she named the 

 older one Kanag, the second one Dumalawl, the third was Ogoglbeng. 



Not long after the three little pigs, which had the beads about their 

 necks, became boys, and Ogoglbeng was naughty. When the old 

 woman Alokotan gave them blankets, he was the first to choose the one 

 he wished. "Shame, Ogoglbeng, why are you always the naughtiest 

 and are always selfish." "Yes, I always want the best, so that the girls 

 will want me," said Ogoglbeng. When Alokotan gave the belts, and 

 clouts, and coats, he always took the best, and Kanag and Dumalawl 

 were jealous of him, and they said bad things. Ogoglbeng said to them, 

 "I am not ashamed, for she is my mother, so I will take the best." 



Not long after they were young men. "Mother Alokotan, will 

 you let us go to walk? Do not worry while we are gone, for we will 

 return soon," said the three young men. The old woman said "yes" 



1 Similiar incidents, in which women give birth to snakes or animals, occur in 

 Borneo. See Evans, Journal Royal Anthro. Inst., Vol. XLIII, 1913, pp. 432 ff. 



