t
also forms a part of the more extensive rites.
[24] A sugar-cane rum.
[25] See p. 10, note 1.
[26] Lesser spirits.
[27] Like ideas occur in the folktales of British North Borneo. See
_Evans_, _Journal Royal Anthro. Inst_., Vol. XLIII, 1913, p. 444.
[28] In various guises the same conception is found in Europe, Asia,
Africa, and Malaysia. See Cox, An Introduction to Folklore, p. 121
(London, 1904).--In an Igorot tale the owner captures and marries the
star maiden, who is stealing his rice. _Seidenadel_, The Language of
the Bontoc Igorot, p. 491 ff. (Chicago, 1909).
[29] The Dusun of Borneo have tales of talking jars. _Evans_, _Journal
Royal Anthro. Inst_., Vol. XLIII, 1913, pp. 426-427. See also _Cole_
and _Laufer_, Chinese Pottery in the Philippines (_Pub. Field Museum
of Nat. Hist_., Vol. XII, No. 1, p. 11 ff., 1912).
[30] _Piper sp_.
[31] Bagobo tales relate that in the beginning plants, animals,
and rocks could talk with mortals. See _Benedict_, _Journal American
Folklore_, Vol. XXVI, 1913, p. 21.
[32] Tales of animals who assist mortals are found in all lands;
perhaps the best known to European readers is that of the ants which
sorted the grain for Cinderella. See also _Evans_, _Jour. Royal
Anthro. Inst.,_ Vol. XLIII, 1913, p. 467, for Borneo; _Tawney's_
Katha Sarit Sagara, pp. 361 ff., Calcutta, 1880, for India.
[33] Fabulous birds of gigantic size, often known under the Indian
term _garuda_, play an important part in the beliefs of the Peninsular
Malays.
[34] A similiar incident is cited by _Bezemer_ (Volksdichtung aus
Indonesien). See also the Bagobo tale of the Kingfisher (_Benedict_,
_Jour. American Folklore_, Vol. XXVI, 1913, p. 53).
[35] The magic flight has been encountered in the most widely separated
parts of the globe, as, for instance, India and America. See _Tawney_,
Katha Sarit Sagara, pp. 361, 367 ff. and notes, (Calcutta, 1880);
_Waterman_, _Jour. American Folklore,_ Vol. XXVII, 1914, p. 46;
_Reinhold Koehler_, Kleinere Schriften, Vol. I, pp. 171, 388.
[36] In the Dayak legend of Limbang, a tree springs from the head
of a dead giant; its flowers turn to beads; its leaves to cloth;
the ripe fruit to jars. See _H. Ling Roth_, The Natives of Sarawak
and British North Borneo, Vol. I, p. 372.
[37] Similar incidents are to be found among the Ilocano and Igorot;
in Borneo; in Java and India. See _Reyes_, Folklore Filipino, p. 34,
(Manila, 1889); _Jenks_, The Bontoc Igorot,
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