a man (Tale 42)

Role: sick man · First appears: Tale 42

Life events

Bagan made a passing man sick in his knees and feet.(Tale 42)
- With: Bagan
- “When people are passing, you will make them sick in their knees or feet. Then poor Bagan went by the roadside. In a short time a man passed by her; after that he was sick in his knees and did not walk, he only lived in his house, and could not move his hands or feet.”
Bagan performed the bawi ritual, and the sick man recovered his ability to walk.(Tale 42)
- With: Bagan
- “When they had done this, the man who was sick was as good as if he had not been sick, he could walk just as before.”

benefactor: Bagan (Bagan carries out the healing ritual for the sick man.) “Then Bagan went to see him in his house and told him to make bawi. The sick man said to her, ‘How do we make bawi, for we have never heard about that?’ Bagan said, ‘Bring me a white cloth, a basket of rice, some thread, a betel-nut, coconut, a rooster, and toknang.’ They brought all of these, and Bagan took them. Then they built a bawi in the garden and planted the sucker by it. They broke the coconut shell, killed the rooster, and took his feathers to put in the coconut husk, and they broke the coconut meat. They made sablau near the bawi and put the coconut meat in it. When they had done this, the man who was sick was as good as if he had not been sick, he could walk just as before.”

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