150 Traditions of the Tinguian 



taken all we can carry," said the tikgl. "All right if that is all you want, 

 help yourself," said Ligi, "and you come again." After that the 

 tikgl flew and took with them one head of rice each. 



After the tikgl left Ligi had the headache again, so he did not put 

 the rice in the carabao sled, but went home in a hurry. As soon as he 

 arrived in his house Ligi used his power so that it again became morn- 

 ing. As soon as it became day the tikgl went and Ligi went also and they 

 arrived at the same time. "Tikgl, tikgl, Ligi, can we cut your rice 

 which is amasl mixed with alom&ski in the place of Domayasi?" "Are 

 you here now, tikgl?" said Ligi. "Go and cut the rice and see if you 

 can cut it very soon, and after that I will make Sayang, and you must 

 come tikgl" said Ligi. "Yes, we are going to cut and you do not need 

 to stay here. You can go home if you wish," said the tikgl. So Ligi 

 went home. 



As soon as he arrived in his house he went to make a rice granary. 

 When it became afternoon they had finished cutting the rice and Ligi 

 went to the fields to see them. As soon as he arrived there, "We have 

 finished all the rice, Ligi," they said. "Come and give us the payment 

 and then you can go home and see the rice granary where you put the 

 rice, and all the rice bundles will arrive there directly, for you cannot 

 carry them home." "I cannot take them home, for I always have a 

 headache when you go. Since you came I began to have headaches," 

 said Ligi. "Why do you blame us, Ligi?" "Because since you came 

 I have had headaches." After that Ligi went home to see the rice 

 granary. 



As soon as Ligi left them they used magic so that all the rice went 

 to the granary of Ligi in his town. As soon as Ligi arrived at the drying 

 enclosure he saw the rice which the tikgl had sent and he was surprised. 

 "I wonder how those tikgl sent all the rice? I think they are not real 

 tikgl" said Ligi. As soon as the tikgl sent all the rice to the town they 

 went home, and Ligi went to his house. 



Not long after he built balaua and made Sayang, and he invited all 

 the tikgl. As soon as the people whom Ligi invited arrived the tikgl 

 came also and they flew over the people and they made them drink 

 basi. Not long after they became drunk. "Now Ligi we must go 

 home, because it is not good for us to stay for we cannot sit among the 

 people whom you have invited, for we are tikgl and always fly." Not 

 long after they went home and Ligi followed them. He left the people 

 in the party and he watched where they went, and they went to the 

 bana-dsl tree and Ligi went to them and he saw them take off their 

 feathers and put them in the rice granary and Ligi said to them, "Is 

 that what you become, a girl; sometimes you are tikgl who come to cut 



