es eyebrows and half of jars
vanish and have to be replaced. Girl's mother demands that golden
beads be strung on a spider web which surrounds the town. This is
done, but web does not break. Girl's mother hangs on thread which
still holds. She then agrees to the marriage. Guests dance and then
return home, each carrying some of the jars.

22

While Ligi is bathing in river his headband flies away and alights
on the skirt of a maiden who is bathing further down stream. The girl
carries the headband home and soon finds herself pregnant. The child
is born when she has the space between her third and fourth fingers
pricked. With each bath the child grows a span and soon becomes so
active that he hinders mother at her work. She decides to put him
with his father during daytime. Uses magic and causes people of the
town to sleep while she places child beside father. Ligi awakes and
finds child and his headband beside him. Child refuses to answer
questions. Mother secures child at nightfall and repeats acts next
day. Child is hidden, so she fails to get him. Ligi determines to
learn who mother of child is; sends out oiled betel-nuts covered
with gold to invite all people to a _Sayang_. When summoned, the
mother refuses to go until a betel-nut grows on her knee and compels
her. She goes disguised as a Negrito, but is recognized by the child
who nurses from her while she is drunk. Ligi suspects her, and with
a knife cuts off her black skin. Learns she is child's mother and
marries her. He divorces his wife Aponibolinayen, who marries husband
of Gimbagonan. The latter poisons her rival, but later restores her,
when threatened by her husband.

23

A flock of birds offer to cut rice for Ligi. He agrees, and goes
home with a headache. Birds use magic so that the rice cutters work
alone, and the tying bands tie themselves around the bundles. The
birds each take one grain of rice in payment. They use magic again
so that bundles of rice take themselves to the town. Ligi invites
them to a ceremony, and then follows them home. He sees them remove
their feathers and become one girl. They go back to the celebration,
where all chew betel-nut. Girl's quid goes to those of her parents,
from whom she had been stolen by the spirit Kaboniyan. The parents
of Ligi pay the usual marriage price for the girl.

24

When the husband of Dolimaman pricks an itching spot between her third
and fourth fingers, a baby boy pops out. Child who