In some cases those who are guilty of this peculiar offense become turned into stone, unless they take the proper means of appeasing divine wrath, as the following legend will show.
THE PETRIFIED CRAFT AND CREW OF KAGBUBÁTAÑG
In the old, old days a boat was passing the rocky promontory of Kagbubátañg.12 The occupants espied a monkey and a cat fighting upon the summit of the promontory. The incongruity of the thing impressed them and they began to give vent to derisive remarks, addressing themselves to the brute combatants, when lo and behold, they and their craft were turned into stone, and to this day the petrified craft and crew may be seen on the promontory and all who pass must make an offering,13 howsoever small it be, to the vexed souls of these petrified people. If one were to pass the point without making an offering, the anger of its petrified inhabitants might be aroused and the traveler might have bad weather and rough seas.14
12Kag-bu-bá-tañg is a point within sight of the town of Placer, eastern Mindanáo.
13The offering may consist of a little piece of wood, in fact anything, and must be thrown overboard while one is passing the point.
14There is said to be a similar locality near Taganíto, between Clavér and Carrascál.
In further explanation of this singular belief it may be stated that the imitation of the sounds made by frogs is especially forbidden, for it might be followed not merely by thunderbolts, as in some cases, but by petrifaction of the offender; in proof of this I will adduce the legend of Añgó, of Bináoi.15
15Bin-á-oi is the name of an oddly shaped peak at the source of the River Añgadanán, tributary of the Wá-wa River. From the upper Tágo its white crest may be seen overlooking the source of the stream Malitbug that delivers its waters to the Tágo River through the Borubuán.