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But at night the people in the town will want to eat you, and when they come to the bin you must take some of the feathers of the white chicken and throw at them." The man went with her, and when they arrived at the spirit town she hid him in the rice-bin. At night the people came to eat him, as she had said they would; but when he threw the chicken feathers at them they were frightened away.
The last sheaf is reaped by the farmer's wife, who carries it back to the house, where it is threshed and mixed with the Rice-soul. The farmer then takes the Rice-soul and its basket and deposits it, together with the product of the last sheaf, in the big circular rice-bin used by the Malays. Some grains from the Rice-soul are mixed with the seed which is to be sown in the following year.
He begged to go with her so she said, "Go first to our home and get a white chicken; then follow the footmarks of the cow and pigs." He did as she commanded him, and after a while he came to a place where she was bathing in the river. She said to him: "Now you may come with me to our spirit town. I shall hide you in the rice-bin and shall bring food to you every day.
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