gnate themselves.
[355] _Blumea balsamifera_ D.C.
[356] A blanket with red or yellow stripes which resemble the markings
on a young wild pig.
[357] See p. 54, note 2.
[358] A mountain town in eastern Abra.
[359] A ceremony held about a year after a funeral.
[360] See p. 10, note 1.
[361] Spirit name for Tinguian.
[362] The three persons mentioned were still living when this story
was recorded.
[363] The name of the spirit of a dead man which still remains near
its old haunts.
[364] See p. 28, note 2.
[365] See p. 14.
[366] Head man.
[367] Near Namarabar in Ilocos Sur.
[368] The Ilocano consider the _komau_ a fabulous, invisible bird
which steals people and their possessions. See _Reyes_, El Folklore
Filipino, p. 40. Manila, 1899.
[369] A powerful spirit.
[370] See p. 14.
[371] In the Bagobo version of this tale, a ladle becomes the monkey's
tail. See _Benedict_, _Journal American Folklore_, Vol. XXVI, 1913,
p. 21.
[372] A story accounting for the origin of the _kalau_, a bird.
[373] See page 10, note 1.
[374] The cave is situated in the mountains, midway between Patok
and Santa Rosa.
[375] The old custom was that when a party returned from a head hunt
the women went to the gate and held ladders in a [Lambda] so the men
did not pass through the gate; or they laid them on the ground and
the men jumped over them.
[376] The river emerges from Abra through a narrow pass in the
mountains.
[377] Songs.
[378] A similiar incident is found in the Northern Celebes and among
the Kenyah of Borneo. See _Bezemer_, Volksdichtung aus Indonesien,
p. 304. (Haag, 1904.) _Hose_ and _McDougall_, Pagan Tribes of
Borneo. Vol. II, p, 148, London, 1912.
[379] A variant of this tale is told by the Bagobo of southern
Mindanao. See _Benedict_, _Journal of American Folklore_, Vol. XXVI,
1913, p. 59.
[380] The gold or silver wire worn by women or men about their necks.
[381] A little bird.
[382] A kind of bamboo.
[383] For other versions of this tale see p. 29, note 3.
[384] A shell.
[385] A shell.
[386] See p. 29, note 4, for Borneo parallel.
[387] See p. 11.
[388] Bamboo sprouts.
[389] The fruit of a wild vine.
[390] The chief incidents in this tale resemble those in the Sea Dayak
story of Simpang Impang. See _Hose_ and _McDougall_, Pagan Tribes of
Borneo, Vol. II, p. 144 ff. (London, 1912.)
[391] A town in Ilocos Sur.
[392] A mound of earth raised by th
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