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down under the tree. Then the man took his bolo and cut off their 

 heads and took them to his town and made layog l for the heads. After 

 the man's layog, he wanted to go to alzados 2 town to fight them. He 

 had been near to the alzados town about one month. 



While he was away, his wife died. He came back to the town and 

 in the way he met his wife (her spirit) with a cow and two pigs. The 

 man asked his wife where she was going. She said to him, "I am not 

 a person any more, I am dead. ' ' Her husband wanted to touch her hand 

 and his wife gave only her shortest ringer. Her husband said, "Wait 

 a while for me, I will go with you." His wife said, "If you go to our 

 house, take the white chicken and you will see the footmarks of the cow 

 and pigs." He followed the footmarks, and while he was walking he 

 saw his wife washing in the river, under the tree. She said, "You come 

 and I go with you to own town (i.e., spirit town), and I will put you 

 in the rice bin, because the people in the town will want to eat you in 

 the nighttime; but if they come in the nighttime, you must take some 

 of the feathers of the chicken and throw at them, and I will bring you 

 something to eat." 



They went to the spirit town, and she put him in the rice bin, and 

 gave him something to eat. In the evening, the spirits came to eat the 

 man. The man took some of the feathers and threw at them. The 

 spirits were afraid of the feathers. They did this every night, and his 

 wife brought him something to eat every day. The spirits said to the 

 man's wife, "We smell Ipogau." 3 His wife said, "No Ipogau in 

 here." In about two weeks the feathers were nearly gone. Then his 

 wife told him, "It is better for you to go home, because there are no 

 more feathers. I will give you some rice for you to eat in the way. 

 I will show you the road." The man agreed, and they went in the way. 

 She showed him the road. While the man was walking in the way he 

 saw his town and he asked for his wife. They said his wife was dead 

 and they had buried her under his house; then he made layog for his wife. 



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The father of Siagon 4 was head man of Patok. He walked one night 



on the road which goes to Domayko. In the road he saw a big man 



whom he thought was Padawil. Then he smelt a bad odor and knew it 



was a ladag. 5 He struck it with his whip and it said, "Hah." It was 



1 A ceremony held about a year after a funeral. 

 J See p. io, note I. 

 1 Spirit name for Tinguian. 



4 The three persons mentioned were still living when this story was recorded. 

 8 The name of the spirit of a dead man which still remains near its old haunts. 



