Ligi went home.
As soon as he arrived in his house he went to make a rice granary. When
it became afternoon they had finished cutting the rice and Ligi went
to the fields to see them. As soon as he arrived there, "We have
finished all the rice, Ligi," they said. "Come and give us the payment
and then you can go home and see the rice granary where you put the
rice, and all the rice bundles will arrive there directly, for you
cannot carry them home." "I cannot take them home, for I always have
a headache when you go. Since you came I began to have headaches,"
said Ligi. "Why do you blame us, Ligi?" "Because since you came I
have had headaches." After that Ligi went home to see the rice granary.
As soon as Ligi left them they used magic so that all the rice went
to the granary of Ligi in his town. As soon as Ligi arrived at the
drying enclosure he saw the rice which the _tikgi_ had sent and he
was surprised. "I wonder how those _tikgi_ sent all the rice? I think
they are not real _tikgi_" said Ligi. As soon as the _tikgi_ sent
all the rice to the town they went home, and Ligi went to his house.
Not long after he built _balaua_ and made _Sayang_, and he invited
all the _tikgi_. As soon as the people whom Ligi invited arrived
the _tikgi_ came also and they flew over the people and they made
them drink _basi_. Not long after they became drunk. "Now Ligi we
must go home, because it is not good for us to stay for we cannot
sit among the people whom you have invited, for we are _tikgi_ and
always fly." Not long after they went home and Ligi followed them. He
left the people in the party and he watched where they went, and they
went to the _bana-asi_ tree and Ligi went to them and he saw them take
off their feathers and put them in the rice granary and Ligi said to
them, "Is that what you become, a girl; sometimes you are _tikgi_
who come to cut rice for me. Now that you are not _tikgi_ I would
like to marry you." "It is true that I am the _tikgi_ who came to cut
rice, because you would not have found me if I had not done it." He
married the woman who had power so that she became several birds,
[279] and he took her home.
When they arrived in Kadalayapan the people whom Ligi had invited
were still there and were dancing. The father and mother of Ligi were
surprised and so they chewed betel-nut so as to find out who the lady
was. The quid of Ebang and Pagatipanan and the quid of Aponibolinayen
(the _tikgi_) went together.
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