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Traditions of the Tinguian

Note 209 — 26

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Not long after he arrived at the town where the tattooed Igorot lived, and they were so many they looked like locusts. He used his power, “You, my headaxe and my spear, go and fight with the tattooed Igorot, and kill all of them.” As soon as the tattooed Igorot heard what he said, they said, “Why, do you brave baby come to fight with us for, you are very young? Now you cannot return to your town, for we inherit you,” said the bravest of the alzados.209 “If you had said that you intended to kill me I would have killed all of you, even though I am a baby just from my mother's womb,” said Agimlang. So the bravest of the alzados told his people that they should prepare to fight with the baby, and they began to throw their spears at him, but they could not hit him. As soon as all the spears and headaxes were gone, the baby fought with them, and his spear and headaxes killed all the people who lived in that town. As soon as he killed all of them he used magic so that the heads of the tattooed alzados went to Pindayan. Not long after truly all the heads went to Pindayan and he followed them.

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