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with oil, a headaxe, a spear, and a small jar of bast, when you go to 

 the tree." He did as he was bidden, and when he reached the tree the 

 pinding l were there. ' ' Ala ! now kill a small pig and offer its blood mixed 

 with rice. Oil the heads of the stones well, and decorate them with 

 yellow head bands. When you do this Apadel will always guard the 

 town." The man and his companion always did as Kaboniyan said, 

 and when they made balaua, or were sick, or went to fight, they did this. 

 They ate of the pig, they played the gansas and danced. All who obeyed 

 were always well, but one man who urinated on the stones became 

 crazy. 



One day when the people were preparing to go and fight against 

 Manabo, 2 they went to the pinding, and while they danced a red rooster 

 with long tail feathers came out of the stones and walked around them. 

 When they stopped dancing, he went again into the stones. Since 

 that time a white cock has sometimes appeared and once a white dog 

 came out while the people danced. 



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One night a man saw a woman, who wore a black cloth, walking 

 near the pinding. When she would not speak to him, he cut her in the 

 thigh with his bolo} She ran to the stones and vanished. Next morn- 

 ing the man went to the guardian stones and found one of them cut 

 in the middle, as it is now. The man soon died of smallpox. 



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In the first times, the old men saw the stones traveling together 

 down the river. Above them flew many blackbirds. Then the people 

 went down to the river and watched the stones on their journey. After 

 that they caught them and put them near to the gate of the town, where 

 they still remain. 



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The evil spirit Ibwa once had a body like a man and used to visit 

 the people. In those days they kept the body of the dead person seven 

 days, and when the fat ran from the body they caught it and placed it 



1 Peculiarly shaped stones in which Apdel, the guardian spirit of the village is 

 supposed to reside. 



* A Tinguian town several miles south of Patok. 



s Told by the people of Lumaba, to account for a peculiar knifelike cut in one of 

 the guardian stones outside the village. 

 4 Large knife. 



* Account of the securing of the guardian stones at Lagayan, Abra. 



