Dogidog

Role: man · 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 when he came back it had become a cock.

At Magsingal, Dogidog’s rooster killed the other rooster in a fight, then killed all the roosters brought against it; Dogidog won much money. He tied up his horses near town and told his mother to ask the rich man to sell him the good house. The rich man agreed when he saw the sacks of money, and Dogidog went to live in the house while the rich man had nowhere to go when it rained.

Relationship record

Life events

• Dogidog caught the cat in a trap after it came to eat his rice.(Tale 89 · 📍 the forest)
  • With: the cat (Tale 89)
  • “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: the cat (Tale 89)
  • “‘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: the cat (Tale 89)
  • “When he came back, the cat had become a cock.”
• Dogidog's rooster killed the other rooster in the cock fight.(Tale 89 · 📍 Magsingal)
  • With: the other rooster (Tale 89)
  • “Then they took the rooster to the place of the fighting, and Dogidog had him fight the other rooster. But the rooster had been a cat before, and he seized the other rooster in his claws, as a cat does, and killed it.”
• Dogidog's rooster killed all the roosters brought to fight, and Dogidog won much money.(Tale 89 · 📍 Magsingal)
  • “Then the people brought many roosters and bet much money and the rooster of Dogidog, which was a cat before, killed them all, so there were no more roosters in Magsingal, and Dogidog won much money.”
• Dogidog sent his mother to ask the rich man to sell him the good house.(Tale 89)
  • With: his mother (Tale 89)
  • “When he got near to the town, he tied his horses and went to tell his mother to go and ask to buy the good house from the rich man.”
• Dogidog bought the good house from the rich man and went to live there.(Tale 89)
  • “When the rich man saw so much money, he said, ‘Yes,’ for the money was in sacks and was not counted. Then Dogidog went to live in the good house and the rich man still had no house, so he had no where to go when the rain came.”

Tale 89

• parent: his mother (Tale 89) “Dogidog had very much money and he bought two horses to carry the sacks of silver to his house. When he got near to the town, he tied his horses and went to tell his mother to go and ask to buy the good house from the rich man.”
• servant: the cat (Tale 89) “‘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.