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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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