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Updated: May 16, 2025
And as soon as they began to pick, the betel-nuts became so big and heavy that the bagkang-plants fell down when the betel-nuts dropped on them. Then the Buso went away; and the children climbed down in haste, ran home, and told their mother and father how the Buso had tried to carry them off. The Buso-Child
It had made Kawayun happy to look at his father's teeth. When Datu Ayo died, his wife was about to become a mother. Now, the Bagobo women know that, when they become pregnant, they must be very careful to protect themselves from the evil Buso. Failing this, the Buso will come to the woman while she sleeps, and change her baby into a Buso-child.
One night, the wife of Datu Ayo lay down to sleep without putting any knives near her; and that very night the Buso came, and he transformed her child into a Buso-child. She did not know when he came, nor did she even think that a Buso had been near her, until her baby was born. Everybody around the woman at the birth saw that something was the matter with the child.
When he hears it said that somebody is dead, he breaks into laughter, and keeps on laughing. This trait alone would stamp him as a Buso-child. The Buso-Monkey One day a man went out, carrying seventeen arrows, to hunt monkeys; but he found none.
It was little and frail, and as weak as threads of cotton. Its body was flat, and its legs and arms were helpless and flabby. Then all the men said, "That is a Buso-child." As the little boy grew old enough to creep, he moved just like a fish, with a sort of wriggling motion.
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