12 o Traditions of the Tinguian 



prised when I saw them, so I pressed my breasts." "Why were you 

 searching for them? Did someone else hang them in the tree?" said 

 Alokotan. Aponlbolinayen was surprised and she asked Aponltolau if 

 he saw someone hang the little pigs in the tree while she was washing her 

 hair. Aponltolau laughed, "I did not see anyone get them." One of 

 the women had seen Aponltolau hang them in the tree and she told 

 Alokotan that Aponltolau had hung them up. Alokotan hated Aponl- 

 tolau and she asked why he had hung them in the tree. "I went to 

 hang them up for I was ashamed, because they were not men but pigs." 

 "That is why you hung them up. You have power. If you did not 

 want them to be pigs you could change them to men. If I had not 

 found them, perhaps they would have died." Not long after the 

 balaua was finished, and the people went home, and the old woman Aloko- 

 tan went home after the others. She gave all her things to the three 

 boys. This is all. 



(Told by Angtan of Langangilang). 



17 



Aponlbolinayen and Aponltolau had a son and they called him Kanag 

 Kabagbagowan, who was Dumalawl every afternoon. Soon he became 

 a young man and he went to make love to Aponltolau's concubines. 

 When Aponltolau went where his concubines were he said, "Open the 

 door." The women did not open the door, but answered, "We do not 

 want to open the door unless you are Dumalawl." "Please open the 

 door," said Ligi 1 to them. The women did not open the door, so he 

 went back home and he was very angry. In the second night Aponlto- 

 lau went again. "Good evening, women," he said. "Good evening," 

 said the women, and Aponltolau asked them to open the door. "You 

 put your hands into the door and let us see if the marks on the wrist are 

 the marks on Kanag Kabagbagowan." Aponltolau showed them his 

 hands and they said, "You are not Kanag, but you are Ligi, and we do 

 not wish you." Ligi was very angry and he went back home. 



Five days later he said, "Sharpen your knife, Kanag, and we will 

 go to cut bamboo. So Kanag sharpened his knife. Not long after they 

 went where many bamboo grew. As soon as they reached the place 

 Ligi said, "You go up and cut the bamboo and sharpen the ends." 

 Ligi cut the bamboo below him. As soon as Ligi had cut many bamboo 

 he asked Kanag if he had cut many, and Kanag said, "Yes." "Did 

 you sharpen the ends? If you pointed them, put them in one place." 

 Kanag soon put them in one place. After that Aponltolau said to him, 



1 Aponltolau. 



