the woman (Tale 49)

Role: wife · First appears: Tale 49

In Tale 49, the woman lived with the man in a field where they planted corn and rice. When Ibwa came into their house, she took the headaxes and cut him in the doorway. Ibwa gave her one of the dead man’s ears to chew like betel-nut and tested the sign of her saliva; he changed her two breasts into one in the center of her chest, took her to his house, and said, “Now I am your husband.” Ibwa's second son and Ibwa's third son said they could not take him because she tried to kill them with the two headaxes when they went up into the house.

Relationship record

Life events

• The woman cut Ibwa with the headaxes when he came into the house.(Tale 49)
  • With: Ibwa
  • “When the Ibwa came in the house, the woman took the headaxes and cut him in the doorway.”
• Ibwa gave the woman one of the dead man's ears to chew and tested the sign of her saliva.(Tale 49)
  • With: Ibwa the man (Tale 49)
  • “The Ibwa took the two ears of the dead man; he ate one and gave the other to the woman to chew, like betel-nut, to see the sign.”
• Ibwa changed the woman's two breasts into one in the center of her chest.(Tale 49)
  • With: Ibwa
  • “He made the woman's two breasts into one in the center of her chest.”
• Ibwa took the woman to his house.(Tale 49)
  • With: Ibwa
  • “He took her to his house.”

Tale 49

• married with the man (Tale 49) “A man and his wife were living in the field where they planted corn and rice.”
• enemies with Ibwa “When the Ibwa came in the house, the woman took the headaxes and cut him in the doorway.”
• married with Ibwa “He said to the woman, ‘Now I am your husband.’”
• enemies with Ibwa's second son “We could not take him, because if we go up in the house the woman takes the two headaxes and tries to kill us.”
• enemies with Ibwa's third son “We could not take him, because if we go up in the house the woman takes the two headaxes and tries to kill us.”

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