Abstracts 221 



59 



An alan takes the afterbirth and causes it to become a real child 

 named Sayen. Afterbirth child marries a servant, thinking he has 

 married her mistress. Learns he is deceived, and causes death of his 

 wife; then kills many people in the town of the girl who has deceived 

 him. She gets him to desist, and after he revives some of the slain 

 marries him. People of neighboring town are troubled by the komau, 

 an evil spirit, who always causes the death of as many people as the 

 hunters have secured deer. Sayen kills the komau. He fights with the 

 great spirit Kabonlyan. Neither is able to overcome the other, so they 

 become friends. They fight together against their enemies. Sayen 

 often changes himself into a fish or chicken, and hides after a fight. 

 This is observed by people who set a trap and capture him. He is 

 killed. 



60 



A man while in the woods hears the alan near him. He feigns death 

 and the spirits weep for him. They put gold and beads on the body. 

 He springs up and seizes the offerings. They demand the return of one 

 bead; he refuses, and the spirits burn his house. 



61 



Two men who have killed a wild pig desire fire. One goes to house 

 of an alan and tries to secure it while the spirit sleeps. She awakes 

 and goes with the man to the pig. Man carries liver of the animal 

 back to the baby alan. He eats the liver and then throws the child into 

 a caldron of hot water. He tells his companion what he has done, and 

 they climb a tree near the water. The alan discovers their hiding place 

 by seeing their reflection in the water. She climbs up, feet first, but 

 they cut the vine on which she is ascending, and she is killed. They 

 go to her house and secure a jar of beads and a jar of gold. 



62 



The flat earth is made by the spirit Kadaklan. He also makes the 

 moon and sun, which chase each other through the sky. The moon 

 sometimes nearly catches the sun, but becomes weary too soon. The 

 stars are stones, the lightning a dog. 



63 



A flood covers the land. Fire has no place to go, so enters bamboo, 

 stones and iron. It still lives there and can be driven out by those 

 who know how. 



