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Updated: May 21, 2025
"Here," said I to my lieutenant, "is a good spot for us to spend the night on." He recoiled some paces. "What!" said he; "do you wish to stop here, master?" "Certainly," replied I. "Oh! but you don't see that we are in still more danger here than in the midst of the Igorrots!" "And why, then, are we in danger?" asked I. "Why? why? Do you not know that the Tic-balan dwells in the large balétés.
What shall we see in this miserable cabin with the exception of the Tic-balan, or Assuan? We shall find nothing else." During the Indian's reflections the fire burnt up. I lit, without saying a word, a cotton wick, plastered over with elemi gum, that I always carried with me in my travels, and I began exploring.
This demon can do every possible harm to anyone who dares not to respect him, or who does not carry certain herbs about his person; every time an Indian passes under one of these fig-trees he makes a movement towards it with his hand, saying: "Tavit-po," Tagal words, signifying: "Lord! with your permission!" The lord of the place is the Tic-balan. The other demon is called Azuan.
The Tagalogs believe in Tic-Balan, an evil spirit who inhabits fig-trees, but is kept off by wearing a certain herb, and in a female spirit of the woods, Azuan, who is kept away from the house in times of domestic anxiety by the husband, who mounts to the roof and keeps up a disturbance for some hours.
I went all through the inside of the habitation without finding anything, not even the Tic-balan, or Assuan, as my lieutenant imagined.
One of those malevolent demons is the Tic-balan which I have already mentioned, who dwells in the forests, in the interior of the large fig-trees.
I listened calmly to this touching lamentation of my lieutenant, who was perfectly right in all he said; but when he finished I sought to rouse his courage, and replied: "What! my brave Alila! are you afraid? I thought the Tic-balan, and the evil spirits could alone affect your courage.
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