Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 393 pages of information about Traditions of the Tinguian.

Traditions of the Tinguian: a Study in Philippine Folk-Lore eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 393 pages of information about Traditions of the Tinguian.

Not long after the two girls went to the house of the jeweler and they ordered him to make rings and bracelets for them like those the princesses had.  As soon as they went in the house of Indayo and Iwaginan in the town of Pindayan, they asked for water to drink.  After that Iwaginan and Indayo gave them water to drink, and they thought that the two girls, who were dressed like men, were ladies, so they followed them when they left and they took basi for them to drink.

As soon as the princesses arrived in the jeweler’s house they commanded him to make rings and bracelets for them.  As soon as the jeweler began to make the rings and bracelets for them Iwaginan and Indayo arrived with the basi.  Soon it became night and they ate and drank in the night and they became drunk, and they all slept in one room.  The people saw the beads on their arms and the jeweler awakened them and put them in another room so they did not sleep in the same room with the others and he said, “I thought you were princes, for you dress like princes, but when I saw your beads I woke up, for I think those two men are planning bad for you.  Go and sleep in the other room.”  So they went into the other room to sleep.

Not long after it became daylight and they returned home, and Iwaginan and Indayo did not see them, and they were very sorry for they thought the princes were truly girls.  So they went back home, and as soon as they arrived there they said, “We are going to make balaua, to find out if those princes were truly girls.”  So they began to build balaua.  They sent messengers to go and invite people in every town.  Not long after the people whom they invited arrived, and they saw that the princes were not there.  So they commanded their spirit aids to go to all the world and find those princes.  So the spirits became hawks and they flew about the world.  As soon as they came near to the palace of the king they alighted on a tree and they watched the princesses in the windows and hawks said, “Tingi.”  The princesses heard the word “Tingi,” and they were Ganinawan and Asigtanan.  They saw the birds from the window, and the hawks flew by them and the princesses stroked their feathers, because they were pretty.

Soon the hawks seized them in their talons and flew away with them and carried them to Pindayan.  Not long after they reached there and Iwaginan and Indayo were very glad, and they made a big party and they invited the king.  The king had been searching for them for a long time.  Some of the spirit helpers who had gone to the palace said, “Good morning.  We came here to invite you, for Iwaginan and Indayo sent us.  They are making a big party for those princesses for whom you are searching, for we took them to Pindayan, and Iwaginan and Indayo married them.”  When the king heard the news he was glad, and he went to the party.  Indayo and Iwaginan made him dance when he arrived, and Kanag

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