140 Traditions or the Tinguian 



town, Kanag gave the bad sign. "Go back, father, for you have a bad 

 sign," said the little bird. So his father went back at once. The next 

 morning he started again and he went. When he reached the gate of 

 the town the little bird gave him a good sign, so he went. The little 

 bird flew near to him and he always gave the good sign. Aponitolau 

 was happy for he knew that nothing would injure him. 



Not long after they arrived at the alzado 1 town, and the alzados 

 were glad when they saw Aponitolau and they said to him, "You are 

 the only man who ever came to our town. Now you cannot return 

 home. We inherit you," said the bravest of them. "Ala, if you say 

 that I cannot go back home, you summon all the people in your town, 

 for we are going to fight," said Aponitolau, and the alzado said to him, 

 "You are very brave if you wish to fight with all of us." So the bravest 

 summoned all the people to prepare, for Aponitolau wished to fight all 

 of them. The people were surprised that one man wished to fight with 

 them, and they said to Aponitolau, "One of my fingers will fight with 

 you. Don't say that you will fight with all of us." Aponitolau 

 replied, "Do whatever you wish. I still want to fight you." The 

 alzados were angry. The bravest of them ran toward Aponitolau, and 

 he threw his spear and headaxe and Aponitolau jumped. The alzados 

 were surprised, for he jumped very high, and they all began to throw 

 their spears at him, and they ran and tried to cut his head off. Aponi- 

 tolau jumped and he secured all their spears and headaxes, and he said 

 to them, "Am I the next now?" "Yes, because we are now unarmed." 



Aponitolau used magic so that when he threw his spear it would fly 

 among them until they were all dead. When he threw his spear it 

 flew to all the alzados and killed all of them; so Aponitolau again used 

 magic, and his headaxe cut off the heads of the alzados, and Aponitolau 

 sat by the gate of the town. The little bird flew by him and said, " The 

 good sign which I gave to you, father, was all right and you have killed 

 all the enemies." Aponitolau said, "Yes." As soon as the headaxe 

 had cut off all the heads from the dead alzados, he used his power again 

 so that all of the heads went to Kadalayapan. The heads went first and 

 he followed them, and the little bird always followed him. 



As soon as they arrived at the gate of the town the little bird flew 

 away and Aponitolau used magic so that the heads were stuck around 

 the town. As soon as the heads were placed around the town, Aponi- 

 tolau commanded all the people in his town to go and invite the people 

 who lived in different places to come and attend his big party. He told 

 them to invite all the pretty girls who never go outdoors. So the people 



1 See p. 10, note I. 



