When it became afternoon Līgī went. As soon as he arrived at the field the rice which they had cut was gathered—five hundred bundles. “Now, Līgī, come and see the rice which we have cut, for we want to go back home,” said the tikgī. Līgī was surprised. “What did you do, you tikgī? You have nearly finished cutting my rice alomáskī in the place of Domayásī,” he said. “‘What did you do’, you say, and we cut it with our rice cutters.” “Now you tikgī, I am ashamed to separate the payment for each of you. You take all you want,” said Līgī, so the tikgī took truly one head of rice for each one. “Now, Līgī, we have Page 150taken all we can carry,” said the tikgī. “All right if that is all you want, help yourself,” said Līgī, “and you come again.” After that the tikgī flew and took with them one head of rice each.
After the tikgī left Līgī had the headache again, so he did not put the rice in the carabao sled, but went home in a hurry. As soon as he arrived in his house Līgī used his power so that it again became morning. As soon as it became day the tikgī went and Līgī went also and they arrived at the same time. “Tikgī, tikgī, Līgī, can we cut your rice which is amasī mixed with alomáskī in the place of Domayásī?” “Are you here now, tikgī?” said Līgī. “Go and cut the rice and see if you can cut it very soon, and after that I will make Sayang, and you must come tikgī,” said Līgī. “Yes, we are going to cut and you do not need to stay here. You can go home if you wish,” said the tikgī. So Līgī 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 Līgī went to the fields to see them. As soon as he arrived there, “We have finished all the rice, Līgī,” 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 Līgī. “Why do you blame us, Līgī?” “Because since you came I have had headaches.” After that Līgī went home to see the rice granary.
As soon as Līgī left them they used magic so that all the rice went to the granary of Līgī in his town. As soon as Līgī arrived at the drying enclosure he saw the rice which the tikgī had sent and he was surprised. “I wonder how those tikgī sent all the rice? I think they are not real tikgī” said Līgī. As soon as the tikgī sent all the rice to the town they went home, and Līgī went to his house.
Not long after he built balaua and made Sayang, and he invited all the tikgī. As soon as the people whom Līgī invited arrived the tikgī came also and they flew over the people and they made them drink basi. Not long after they became drunk. “Now Līgī 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 tikgī and always fly.” Not long after they went home and Līgī followed them. He left the people in the party and he watched where they went, and they went to the bana-ásī tree and Līgī went to them and he saw them take off their feathers and put them in the rice granary and Līgī said to them, “Is that what you become, a girl; sometimes you are tikgī who come to cut Page 151rice for me. Now that you are not tikgī I would like to marry you.” “It is true that I am the tikgī 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,[196] and he took her home.
When they arrived in Kadalayapan the people whom Līgī had invited were still there and were dancing. The father and mother of Līgī were surprised and so they chewed betel-nut so as to find out who the lady was. The quid of Ebang and Pagatipánan and the quid of Aponībolinayen (the tikgī) went together. The quid of Langa-an and Pagbokásan went to the quid of Līgī and thus they knew who Aponībolinayen was. Ebang and Pagatipánan were surprised that she was their daughter, and they called her Aponībolinayen, and they called Līgī Aponītolau. As soon as they found out who she was, Līgī gave the payment to the relatives of Aponībolinayen. As soon as he made the payment, they played the gansas and danced for three months. As soon as the balaua was over all the people went home and Aponībolinayen's father asked her where she had been. She said she had been in the bana-ásī tree where Kabonīyan[197] had put her, and they were surprised for they did not know when Kabonīyan had taken her from them. After that they used magic and the house where Aponībolinayen had lived went to Kadalayapan. This is all.
(Told by Madomar of Riang barrio of Patok.)
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There was a man named Wadagan, and his wife was Dolīmáman. They were sitting together in the middle of the day, and Dolīmáman commanded Wadagan to stick with a thorn the place between her fourth and little finger. So Wadagan stuck her finger with the thorn and as soon as he did so a little baby popped out. “What name shall we give to this boy?” said Wadagan. “You ask what name we shall give him, we are going to call him Kanag Kabagbagowan,” she replied. “Give him a bath every day.” “I use my power so that every time I give him a bath he will grow.”[198] She always said this when she bathed him and every time the baby grew. Not long after she said, “I use my power so that when I bathe him again he will be so big he will ask for his clout, belt, and top.” As soon as she said this and bathed him the boy became big and asked for his clout, belt and top. Not long after he dressed up and took his top and went to play with the other boys.