[53] The popular name "betel-nut," has been retained in these stories to designate the fruit of the areca-palm. Strictly speaking, "betel" is the leaf of a climbing plant (buyo) that is chewed with the nut.
[54] The solid part of the betel-nut that remains after the juice has been extracted by long chewing.
[55] A sort of bridge or platform connecting the main body of the native house with the shelter that serves as kitchen, when this is separate from the living-room.
[56] A fabulous bird, probably associated with the screech-owl (Aluco candidus) of the Philippines. It is a bird of ill-omen. Compare A. Newton, Dictionary of Birds, pp. 679-680 (1893-96).
[57] General term for "man," "people."
[58] The ulit has a stereotyped opening with the phrase unda'me (unda ume), "no year."
[59] The fabulous source of all the mountain-streams
[60] The anthropomorphic and zoömorphic evil personalities, whose number is legion. The traditional concept of Buso among the Bagobo has essentially the same content as that of Asuang with Visayan peoples. Both Buso and Asuang suggest the Rákshasa of Indian myth.
[61] See footnote 2, p. 19.
[62] Bia, "lady;" t' (to), "the;" metum, "black."