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Note 1 · Kadaklan is the most powerful of the spirits. Agᴇmᴇm is his wife.Note 2 · The names of small buildings or shrines elected for various spirits.Note 3 · A powerful spirit.Note 4 · The east.Note 5 · Feathers attached to a stick, which serve as hair ornaments in the Sayang ceremony.Note 6 · Spirit name for Tinguian.Note 7 · See p. 171, note 2.Note 8 · The ceremony.Note 9 · Spirit name for the earth.Note 10 · See p. 172, note 4.Note 11 · See p. 22, note 3.Note 12 · An omen bird.Note 13 · The true omen bird.Note 14 · Several native names which have no exact English equivalents are used here.Note 15 · Woven bamboo used on ceilings.Note 16 · No one is allowed to enter the town after the ceremony begins.Note 17 · The most powerful of all spirits.Note 18 · See p. 13.Note 19 · See p. 13, note 1.Note 20 · See p. 12.Note 21 · A somewhat similar tale, current among the Dayak, will be found in Roth, The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo, Vol. I, p. 309 ff.Note 22 · A small spirit house built during the bawī ceremony.Note 23 · A kind of grass.Note 24 · Peculiarly shaped stones in which Apdel, the guardian spirit of the village is supposed to reside.Note 25 · A Tinguian town several miles south of Patok.Note 26 · Large knife.Note 27 · Compare with account of La Gironière, Twenty Years in the Philippines, pp. 120 ff; also with Cole, Philippine Journal of Science, Vol. III, Note 28 · A ceremony held while the body is still in the house.Note 29 · A grass which is eaten.Note 30 · Taboo. A fire is kept burning at the grave and at the foot of the house ladder for ten nights following the burial. During this time the memNote 31 · A barrio of Patok.Note 32 · A rope lasso.Note 33 · An evil spirit.Note 34 · People in the house with the dead and the relatives must observe the kanyau (taboo) for ten days or they will meet the spirit of the dead peNote 35 · Smilax vicaria Kunth.Note 36 · The name by which the Tinguian designate themselves.Note 37 · Blumea balsamifera D.C.Note 38 · A blanket with red or yellow stripes which resemble the markings on a young wild pig.Note 39 · See p. 54, note 2.Note 40 · A mountain town in eastern Abra.Note 41 · A ceremony held about a year after a funeral.Note 42 · See p. 10, note 1.Note 43 · Spirit name for Tinguian.Note 44 · The three persons mentioned were still living when this story was recorded.Note 45 · The name of the spirit of a dead man which still remains near its old haunts.Note 46 · See p. 14.Note 47 · Head man.Note 48 · Near Namarabar in Ilocos Sur.Note 49 · The Ilocano consider the komau a fabulous, invisible bird which steals people and their possessions. See Reyes, El Folklore Filipino, p. 40.Note 50 · A powerful spirit.Note 51 · See p. 14.Note 52 · In the Bagobo version of this tale, a ladle becomes the monkey's tail. See Benedict, Journal American Folklore, Vol. XXVI, 1913, p. 21.Note 53 · See page 10, note 1.Note 54 · The cave is situated in the mountains, midway between Patok and Santa Rosa.Note 55 · The old custom was that when a party returned from a head hunt the women went to the gate and held ladders in a Λ so the men did not pass thNote 56 · The river emerges from Abra through a narrow pass in the mountains.Note 57 · The Īpogau2 are making Sayang.3 “Why do not those Īpogau who are making Sayang start the balaua4 correctly?” said the spirits above. Those aNote 58 · Hundreds of years ago there were two people who were husband and wife. Their names were Tagápen and Gīáben, and they had only one son whose