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Updated: May 1, 2025
The old men say that a man of Mayinit came to live in Bontoc, as he had married a Bontoc woman and she wished to live in her own town. After a while the man died. His friends came to the funeral, and a snake, o-wug', also came. When the people wept, o-wug' cried also.
"We never kill o-wug'; he is our friend. If he crosses our path on a journey, we stop and talk. If he crosses our path three or four times, we return home, because, if we continue our journey then, some of us will die. O-wug' thus comes to tell us not to proceed; he knows the bad anito on every trail." Who took my father's head? The Bontoc people have another folk tale regarding head taking.
When they put the dead man in the grave, and when they stood there looking, o-wug' came to the grave and looked upon the man, and then went away. Later, when the friends observed the death ceremony, o-wug' also came. "O-wug' thus showed himself to be a friend and companion of the Igorot. Sometime in the past he was an Igorot, but we have not heard," the old men say, "when or how he was o-wug'."
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