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Two men were in the mountains and had no mats to sleep on, so they pulled much sobosob and put it under them. That night the evil spirits came to get them but did not come very near. The men heard them say that they wanted to get them, but that it was bad for them if they got near the sobosob, so they left them alone.
(Sobosob and banal are sometimes put with the plow iron over a new grave as an added protection.) Page 183
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · In the first time, three Tinguian went to hunt. At night they lay down to sleep and one of them, who had a kambaya,54 had not gone to sleep Note 2 · A man and woman had a beautiful daughter whom they always kept in the house.55 One day while they were away in the fields, the girl went outNote 3 · In the first times men went to the mountains to hunt deer and hogs. One man kept his dog in the open land outside of the forest, to wait for