Cole. Traditions of the Tinguian

Today's free book is Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore by Fay-Cooper Cole (1915). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust and Project Gutenberg.


Table of Contents

Tales of the Mythical Period
1 We go to take greens, sister-in-law Dinay...
2 I am anxious to eat the mango fruit which belongs to Algaba of Dagála...
3 I am going to wash my hair. Give me the rice straw...
4 Sinogyaman, come and oil my hair so that I can go to war...
5 Mother Dinawágan go and engage me to someone...
6 There was a woman whose name was Ginambo of Gonīgonan...
7 Aponītolau told Aponībolinayen that they would go to the river...
8 Aponībolinayen and Aponītolau were anxious to make Sayang...
9 Ayo went to the spring. When she went she met Dagdagalīsit...
10 Aponībalagen went to put Aponībolinayen in Kabwa-an...
11 I go to visit my cousin Gawigawen of Adasin...
12 I am anxious to eat the fruit of the bolnay tree...
13 There was a husband and wife who were Aponītolau and Aponībolinayen...
14 Ala, Aponībolinayen prepare our things, for we are going to plant sugar cane...
15 I am going to wash my hair, said Aponītolau...
16 Look out for our children, Līgī, while I wash my hair...
17 Aponībolinayen and Aponītolau had a son...
18 Aponībolinayen went to the spring...
19 I am going to hunt deer with the dogs, mother, said Kanag...
20 We are going away, Cousin Dagoláyan...
21 Go to watch our langpadan, Kanag...
22 I am going to take a bath, said Līgī...
23 Tikgī, tikgī, Līgī, if you want us to cut rice for you...
24 There was a man named Wadagan, and his wife was Dolīmáman...
25 There was a man Awig and Aponībolinayen...
26 Dumanágan sent his mother Langa-an to Kaodanan...
27 When I was a young fellow I went to all parts of the world...
28 The mother and caretaker of Asbinan try to arrange for him to marry...
29 I am going to lie down on the stone...
30 Tolagan decides to visit certain places in Pangasinan...
31 Two girls are adopted by a rich man...
32 The Īpogau who are trying to celebrate Sayang make errors...
33 The people who are conducting the Dawak ceremony fail to do it properly...
34 The spirits of Dadaya notice that their feather headdresses have lost their lustre...
35 The father who is starting for a head-dance agrees to meet his wife...
36 The spirit Ináwen, who lives in the sea, sends her servants to spread sickness...
37 The spirit Maganáwan sends his servants to secure the blood of a rooster...
38 The people who are digging holes for house poles get a bad sign...
39 The different parts of the house quarrel...
40 The great spirit sees the people of Bisau...
41 Dayapán, who has been ill for seven years, goes to bathe...
42 Girl who lacks certain organs is ashamed to marry...
43 The spirit Kabonīyan instructs a sick man...
44 Man sees a woman walking at night...
45 The old men of Lagayan see peculiarly shaped stones...
46 The spirit Ībwa visits a funeral...
47 A widow leaves the town before the period of mourning for her husband is past...
48 Two men agree to hunt carabao...
49 A man and his wife are living near to their field...
50 A man, whose brother has just died, goes to hunt...
51 The people fail to put the banal vine and iron on the grave...
52 A man goes to hunt his carabao...
53 Two men who have to sleep in the mountains make beds of sobosob leaves...
54 Three hunters spend the night in the open...
55 The spirit Bayon steals a beautiful girl...
56 A hunter is carried away by a great bird...
57 A man encounters a large being...
58 The dead wife of Baluga harvests his rice...
59 An alan takes the afterbirth...
60 A man while in the woods hears the alan...
61 Two men who have killed a wild pig desire fire...
62 The flat earth is made by the spirit Kadaklan...
63 A flood covers the land...
64 A man finds his rice field disturbed...
65 A lazy man, who is planting corn, constantly leans on his planting stick...
66 A boy is too lazy to strip sugar cane...
67 A lazy girl pretends she does not know how to spin...
68 A war party are unable to cross a swollen river...
69 A mother puts a basket over her lazy son...
70 A young man who owns a rice field gets a new wife...
71 The dog of Ganoway chases a deer into a cave...
72 The jar Magsawī formerly talked softly...
73 The sun and moon fight...
74 A man who went with a war party is away so long...
75 Two flying snakes once guarded the gap in the mountains...
76 A man named Tagápen, of Ilocos Norte, with his wife and child...
77 A turtle and a monkey go to plant bananas...
78 A turtle and lizard go to steal ginger...
79 A little bird calls many times for a boy to catch it...
80 A frog, which is attached to a hook, lures a fish...
81 The five fingers are brothers...
82 A carabao and a shell agree to race...
83 A crab and a shell go to get wood...
84 A mosquito tells a man he would eat him...
85 A messenger goes to negotiate a marriage...
86 A man sees people eating bamboo shoots...
87 A man with heavily laden horse...
88 A woman eats the fruit belonging to crocodile...
89 A lazy man goes to cut bamboo...
90 A spirit lets a man take his poncho...
91 A fisherman is seized by a big bird...