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it, eventually killing it. Then they divided it into two 
portions and those that ate the head portion became 
possessed of the power of Tau Tepang. 
Later on, the cause of all this trouble became known, 
and the guilty pair, Garuda and Impang, were put to 
death, being buried in the same grave, impaled on a 
bamboo, and this bamboo—now grown to an enormous 
size—may be seen to this very day on the banks of the 
river Kumpang in the Lemanak district, where it is 
known as “Ayur Tampun Impang” (“Impang’s bam¬ 
boo”). 
When a child is born to a Tau Tepang family, the 
parents are said to cut the edge of the child’s tongue 
and then the mother touches the cut with her spittle, 
and thus the child will inherit the power of Tau 
Tepang. 
The ghosts of the Tau Tepang are said by the Dayaks 
to be a sort of bird, which flies at night making a 
curious quacking sound. 
Dayaks have a great dread of the power of these 
people and on their paddy farms they dare not breathe 
the name Tau Tepang ." En. 
