WHEN HUSBAND AND WIFE ARE ANTOHS 401 



14. WHEN HUSBAND AND WIFE ARE ANTOHS 

 (From the Saputans; kampong Data Laong) 



There were many young men who wanted to marry 

 Inu Songbakim, a young girl, but she liked only one man, 

 Monjang Dahonghavon, and, having obtained the con- 

 sent of her father and mother, he shared her mat. One 

 day he went out to work, making planks with his axe, 

 while she remained at home cooking. When she had 

 prepared the food she took it to him, and when she ar- 

 rived at the place where he was working he looked at 

 her as he was cutting with the axe and hurt himself. He 

 died, and his father came and took the corpse to the 

 house. Being an antoh he restored the life of his son, 

 who became very angry with his wife for being the cause 

 of his death. He wanted to kill her, but as she was very 

 strong he could not do it, and instead, with his parang, 

 killed her father and mother. His wife, in turn, became 

 filled with wrath, and with a parang killed his father 

 and mother. 



The young man then left her to look for another wife, 

 but could not find any that was to his liking, strong and 

 good-looking, so after a while he decided to return to 

 the wife he already had. "I like you much," she said, 

 " but if you want to have me again you must make my 

 father and mother alive again." "I will do that," he 

 answered, "if you first will restore to life my father and 

 mother." They were both antohs, so there was a gen- 

 eral return to life, and the people from the two kampongs 

 to which the families belonged came together and made 

 the kampongs into one. 



