FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   236   237   238   239   240   241   242   243   244   245   >>  
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
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   236   237   238   239   240   241   242   243   244   245   >>  



Top keywords:

Borneo

 

Folklore

 

Journal

 

American

 

Benedict

 

Bagobo

 

McDougall

 

London

 
Ilocos
 
spirit

resemble

 

mountains

 
Tribes
 

Indonesien

 

ladders

 

Lambda

 

Kenyah

 
emerges
 

incident

 
narrow

similiar

 
ground
 

Bezemer

 

jumped

 

Celebes

 

Northern

 

Volksdichtung

 

incidents

 

sprouts

 

parallel


Bamboo
 

raised

 
Simpang
 

Impang

 

silver

 

variant

 

southern

 

Mindanao

 

versions

 

bamboo


persons

 

mentioned

 

living

 

Tinguian

 

funeral

 

Spirit

 
recorded
 

haunts

 

remains

 

blanket