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Blanga is a cursorial animal, distinguished by enormous branchin 

 horns. Pungatu is pictured as a fat quadruped, with a bird-like 

 head, and several humps on his back. He lives up on the moun- 

 tains. Limbago is a long-necked quadruped, that carries sickness 

 wherever he goes. Abuy and Ruii are pig-like forms, the lat- 

 ter being an underground animal, with a big belly and extremely 

 pointed teeth. Any intruder into Riiii's house below the ground 

 is punished by having his strength taken from him. Straightway 

 he becomes so weak that lie cannot walk, and his feet give way 

 under him. Then Riiu attacks him with his sharp teeth. Sekur 

 is a big-eared quadruped, a mountain climber, sometimes called 

 Sakar. Marina is an arboreal animal with a snake-like body, that 

 climbs by means of long arms. Ubag looks like a horse with a 

 hump on his back, and is said to smite with mortal illness those 

 whom he attacks. Kogang is a bad animal which is visualized 

 under several shapes. 



Still other diseases are brought by the Buso Tulung, who resembles 

 a jungle fowl. 



The most famous mythical birds are, perhaps, the following: 



Minokawa s;l is an enormous bird that swallows the moon at the 

 time of a lunar eclipse, a feat accomplished easily, since this bird 

 is conceived to be as large as the island of Negros, or the island 

 of Bohol. 



Kulago appears in myth as the bird into which Wari, brother 

 of Lumabat, was metamorphosed 90 as a punishment for his diso- 

 bedience to one of the gods. Its cry is that of the Bcreech-owl, 

 but its body is covered by both hair and feathers representing every 

 sort of animal and bird and jungle fowl. 



The most rapacious bird of folklore is Wak-Wak, a fierce mythical 

 crow that Hies headless, and feeds on human flesh, and must be 

 charmed away by a formula of suggestive magic." 



•• Cf. "Bagobo myths." Jour. Am. Folk-lore, vol. 26, p. 19. 1918. 



■* The story of Wari's transformation into a screech-owl is given in the same Jour- 

 nal, vol. 26, pp. 22—23. 



• ' For the Visayan asuang, see p. 42 — 43. The buso and the asuang that have the 

 form of birds of prey resemble the Penggalan of the Peninsula, that is characterized as 

 "a sort of monstrous vampire which delights in sucking the blood of children." The 

 head of this bird flics separately from the body, but the intestines arc attached. Cf. 

 .Skcat : op. cit., pp. 327 — 328; and for other folklore touching fabulous Malay birds, 

 cf. ibid., pp. 110 — 132. See also Somadeva: op. cit., vol. 1, p. 54, 1880. "A bird of 



