222 Traditions of the Tinguian 



64 



A man finds his rice field disturbed even though well fenced in. He 

 hides and in middle of night sees some big animals fly into it. He 

 seizes one and cuts off its wings. The animal turns out to be a mare 

 which is pregnant and soon has male offspring. The place where the 

 wings once grew are still to be seen on the legs of all horses. 



65 



A lazy man, who is planting corn, constantly leans on his planting 

 stick. It becomes a tail and he turns into a monkey. 



66 



A boy is too lazy to strip sugar cane for himself. His mother 

 in anger tells him to stick it up his anus. He does so and becomes a 

 monkey. 



67 



A lazy girl pretends she does not know how to spin. Her com- 

 panions, in disgust, tell her to stick the spinning stick up her anus. She 

 ' does so and at once changes into a monkey. 



68 



A war party are unable to cross a swollen river. They wish to 

 become birds. Their wish is granted and they are changed to kalau, 

 but they are not able to resume the human forms. Those who wore the 

 white mourning bands, now have white heads. 



69 



A mother puts a basket over her lazy son. When she raises it a bird 

 flies away crying "sigak6k" (lazy). 



70 



A young man who owns a rice field gets a new wife. He leaves her 

 to harvest the crop. She is discouraged over the prospect and wishes 

 to become a bird. Her wish is fulfilled, and she becomes a kakok. 



71 



The dog of Ganoway chases a deer into a cave. The hunter follows 

 and in the darkness brushes against shrubs which tinkle. He breaks 

 off some branches. Cave opens again on the river bank, and he finds 

 his dog and the dead deer at the entrance. He sees that fruits on the 



