the cat (Tale 89)

Role: cat who became a cock · First appears: Tale 89

In Tale 89, on the third day, Dogidog caught the cat in a trap after it came to eat his rice. He took the cat home to watch his house and tied it near the door. When Dogidog came back, the cat had become a cock. The cock was an enemy of the other rooster: “he seized the other rooster in his claws, as a cat does, and killed it.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Dogidog caught the cat in a trap after it came to eat his rice.(Tale 89 · 📍 the forest)
  • With: Dogidog
  • “The third day he went again and hung the rice in the tree, but fixed it in a trap; then he hid in some brush and did not cut bamboo. The cat came to eat the rice and was caught.”
• Dogidog took the captured cat home to watch his house.(Tale 89)
  • With: Dogidog
  • “‘Alright, then I take you home to watch my house,’ said the man. Then he took the cat home, and tied it near the door of his house and went away.”
• The cat had become a cock.(Tale 89)
  • With: Dogidog
  • “When he came back, the cat had become a cock.”

Tale 89

• enemies with the other rooster (Tale 89) “But the rooster had been a cat before, and he seized the other rooster in his claws, as a cat does, and killed it.”
• employer: Dogidog “‘Alright, then I take you home to watch my house,’ said the man.”

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Extracted from the original text of Traditions of the Tinguian. Made with Rho MD.