Traditions of the Tinguian

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When she finished the dawak, the spirit sent her to wash in the river as a sign that she had finished Sayang. He told her to get a dog and a cock. She went to the river and she tied the cock and the dog by the water, and while she was gone, the dog killed the cock. Dayapán wept, but for a long time the spirit did not come. When Kabonīyan came again, he said, “If the dog had not killed the cock, no Page 178person would die, but this is a sign and now somebody will die and some will be well.”

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · Dayapán went home and when she arrived there she began to learn to make dawak, and she called all people to hear her and she told all she ha Note 2 · Many years ago there was a woman whose name was Bagutayka. She had had only one daughter whose name was Bagan. A boy who lived in Lantágan w