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crying was heard from the cloth, and the fruit opened, and 
a child was in 
Another night Piagok dreamt that he met a woman. 
So on the next morning he set out and really met her. She 
told Piagok that she wanted armlets (of rattan), Jew’s- 
harps and combs. Piagok went home and made the combs ; 
and on the next day he told his mother to go to the woman’s 
camp, and at night he went there himself and slept with Yak 
Tanggoi'—for that was the woman’s name. 
e next morning, he went with Homoit, Tanggoi’ s 
younger brother, to hunt with his blow-pipe, and, when it was 
night, they went home. Homoit was carried tied on Piagok’s 
back, above his back-basket, because his waist was only as 
big as my index finger, and he could not walk: on returning 
to the hut, his sister released him, 
On the day after Piagok went by himself through the 
jungle to Perak (i.e. the Perak River Valley) for five days, 
and then came back. On his return, he went away again, 
on the next morning, and shot a pig with his bow. He re- 
turned and that night he had an unlucky dream. ‘The next 
morning he and Yak Tanggoi exchanged leaves of the 
Changlun,* agreeing that if their leaves withered they also 
Then Piagok went on a journey, and he found when he 
looked at his (Yak Tanggoi’s) leaf, that it had shrivelled. 
Now after Piagok’s departure, Yak Tanggoi had gone 
to bathe with five other women. The five women pushed 
her down into the bathing-well ~ drowned her, because 
they wanted Piagok for themselve 
Piagok returned and found his wile dead, and wrapped 
her body in a mat. Then he got an iron pan and heated 
water. Next he called the five women and said to them, 
“‘If you like my body, come and sit here!’’ They came 
and sat down near him; whereupon he took the hot water 
and poured it over them, killing them all. Then there came 
Henweh* and the house turned to stone, but Piagok carried 
Yak Tanggoi’s body up to the sky. 
w there was a cousin of Piagok who lived in Perak. 
His name was To‘ Taseg and his wife was called Yak Hnileh. 
To’ Taseg being a halak (magician) knew about Piagok, and 
came with his wife OA gia but his younger cousin (Pia- 
ne ae gone to the s 
. Leases pate: ‘that Piagok’s house had become a 
ae "yet ied himself into a Chinoi, and entered it, 
his wife going in first, because he stopped to burn incense. 
{ Grandmother Rambut 
: A plant which the Mal ma call salun, 
3 Water welling up from under on round. A disaster caused by 
inptodn act. os as here, is sometimes accompanied by ac aes 
of the Stender s house 
