wa-hui

Updated: May 22, 2025

The host is handed a long knife, and is instructed to cut the throat of the pig. His wife takes a rice winnower and a stick, and going to each window strikes the winnower five times, then drops it to the floor, at the same time crying, "Wa-hui."

Fay-Cooper Cole - The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe