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EP 297: Philippines- How the First Head was Taken, The Serpent Eagle, The Tattooed Men, Tilin, The Rice Bird (Cole) · Sandman Stories Presents

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  Welcome back listeners to Sam Mann Story's presents, the
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  folklore podcast where I read you to sleep or until the next
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  story. I'm your host Dustin.
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  If you want more Sandman, I have extra stories that are too spicy
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  Today we are back in the book of Filipino folklore written down
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  my Mamo cook coal. These are the stories of the
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  Ifugao people who live in the mountains of the northern part
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  of Luzon. The first story tells the
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  beginning of death amongst the Ifugao, also known in Spanish as
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  the Igorot. The second tells you why you
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  need a good meal before gathering firewood.
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  And the third story tells you why matching tattoos are a bad
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  idea. And finally, the last story
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  tells why the nickname Crumb Snatchers is universal.
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  OK, let's begin. How the first head was taken.
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  One day the moon, who was a woman named Kabigut, set out in
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  the yard making a large copper pot.
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  The copper was still soft and pliable like clay, and the woman
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  squatted on the ground with the heavy pot against her knees
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  while she patted it and shaped it.
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  Now, while she was working, a son of Tauta, the sun came by
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  and stopped to watch her mould the form.
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  She pressed a stone against the inside of the jar on the
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  outside. She pounded it and slapped it
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  with a wooden paddle dripping with water, until she had worked
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  down the bulges and formed a smooth surface.
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  The boy was greatly interested in seeing the jar grow larger,
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  more beautiful and smoother with each stroke, and he stood still
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  for some time. Suddenly the moon looked up and
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  saw him watching her. Instantly she struck him with
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  her paddle, knocking off his head.
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  Now the sun was not near, but he knew as soon as the moon had
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  knocked off his son's head, and hurrying back to the spot, he
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  put the boy's back head on, and he was alive again.
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  Then the sunset to the moon. You knocked off my son's head.
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  And because you did this, from now on the Earth's people will
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  cut off each other's heads. The end.
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  Story #2 The Serpent Eagle Once they lived two boys whose mother
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  sent them into the forest every day to get wood for her fires.
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  Every morning as they started out she gave them some food for
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  their trip, but it was always poor and there was very little
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  of it. And she would say, The wood that
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  you brought me yesterday was so poor that I cannot give you much
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  to eat today. The boys tried very hard to
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  please her, but if they brought her a nice Pinewood she scolded
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  them, and if they brought her a large dried wreath, she said,
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  these are no good for my fire, for they leave so much ash in
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  the house. Try as they could, they could
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  not satisfy her and their bodies grew very thin from working hard
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  all day and from not getting enough to eat. 1 morning.
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  When they left for the mountains, their mother gave him
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  a bit of dog meat to eat, and the boys were very sad, for they
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  love that dog very much. When they reached the forest,
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  one of them said, You wait here while I climb the tree and cut
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  off some branches. He went up the tree and soon
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  called out. Here's some wood, and the bones
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  of his arm dropped to the ground.
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  Oh, cried his brother, this is your arm.
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  Here is some more wood, cried the other, And the bones of the
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  other arm dropped to the ground. Then he called again, and the
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  bones of his leg fell, and those of his other leg, and so on
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  until all the bones of his body lay on the ground.
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  Take these home, he said, and tell the woman that here is her
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  wood. She only wanted my bones.
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  The younger boy was very sad, for he was alone and there was
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  no one to go down the mountain with him.
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  He gathered up the bundle of wood, wondering meanwhile what
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  he should do. But just as he finished, a
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  serpent eagle called down from the tree tops.
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  I will go with you, brother. So the boy put a bundle of wood
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  on his shoulder, and as he was going down the mountain, his
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  brother, who is now a serpent eagle, flew over his head.
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  When he reached the house, he put down the bundle and said to
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  his mother, Here is your wood. When she looked at it, she was
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  very much frightened and ran out of the house.
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  Then the serpent eagle circled around and around above her head
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  and called out Quee coke, quee coke, quee coke, I do not need
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  your food anymore. Then the younger brother and the
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  serpent eagle lived in the Hut together.
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  The end. OK and story #3 The tattooed
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  men. Once there were two young men
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  who were very good friends. They were unhappy because
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  neither one of them had been tattooed.
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  They felt that they were not as beautiful as their friends.
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  One day they agreed to tattoo each other.
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  One marked the breast in the back of the other, his arms and
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  legs, and even his face. And when he had finished, he
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  took the suit off the bottom of the cooking pot and rub it into
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  all the Marks, and he was tattooed beautifully.
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  The one who had done the work said to the other, Now my
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  friend, you're very beautiful and you must tattoo me.
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  Then the tattooed once scraped a great pile of black soot off the
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  cooking pots, and before the other one knew what he was
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  about, he had rubbed it all over him from top of his head to the
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  bottom of his feet, and he was very black and greasy.
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  The one who was covered with soot became very angry and
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  cried. Why do you treat me like this
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  when I tattooed you so carefully?
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  They began to fight, but suddenly the beautiful tattooed
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  one became a great lizard, which ran away and hid in the tall
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  grass, while the sooty one became a crow and flew over the
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  village. The crow and the lizard hate
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  each other to this very day. The End.
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  OK, and the final story. Tillan the rice bird.
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  One day when a mother was pounding out rice to cook for
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  supper, her little girl ran up and cried.
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  Oh, mother, give me some of the rice to eat.
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  No, said the mother, it is not good for you to eat until it is
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  cooked. Wait for supper.
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  But the little girl persisted until the mother, out of
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  patience, cried. Be still.
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  It is not good for you to talk so much.
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  When she had finished pounding the rice, the woman poured it
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  into a thresher and tossed into the air many times.
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  As soon as the chaff was removed, she emptied the rice
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  into her basket and covered it with the winner.
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  Then she took the jar upon her head and started for the spring
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  to get water. Now the little girl was fond of
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  going to the spring with her mother, for she loved to play in
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  the cool water while the mother filled the jars.
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  But this time she did not go, and as soon as the woman was out
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  of sight she ran down to the basket of rice.
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  She reached down to take a handful of the grain.
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  The cover slipped so that she fell and then she was covered up
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  in the basket. When the mother returned to the
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  house she heard a bird crying. King, King Nick, Nick, Nick.
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  She listened carefully and the sounds seem to be coming from
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  the basket and so she removed the cover.
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  To her surprise, out hopped a little brown rice bird and it
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  flew away calling back. Goodbye mother, goodbye, goodbye
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  mother. You would not give me any rice
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  to eat. And so the little girl turned
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  into a rice bird and continues to hunt for rice to this very
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  day. The end.
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  All right, these stories were a bit
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  short. I was expecting more, but they
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  were interesting nevertheless. The first story was interesting
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  just because it showed that the kid was just a bit annoying just
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  because he was watching her. And the second story seemed sad.
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  I was wondering why the mom was under feeding them and
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  especially dog meat. And the final story explains why
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  there are rice birds which are the bane of many South and East
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  Asian communities. If rice is the main crop, you
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  don't want to have it all eaten up by these little birds.
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  And the podcast shout out is to the rewatch recap.
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  Hosted. By the best Dustin in.
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  Podcasting. This show goes over your
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  favorite books and shows from the 90s and 2000s.
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  He covers shows such as My so-called Life, Ghost Rider and
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  Glee. He also hosts Dustin Can read
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  and as you can tell he loves books and shows, especially
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  horror or slightly spooky. Shows.
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  And if you love a show as much as I do, go and give him a like
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  a rating and a. Review.
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  And the listener shout out is to Shanghai, China, originally a
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  fishing village. This city started booming as a
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  port that was opened after. The First Opium War.
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  It sits on the Huangpu branch of the Yangtze river.
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  It is also a major hub for finance and.
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  Is the. Third largest city in the world,
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  with 24 million people living in the city proper.
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  The city's nickname is who? A shortening of a phrase meaning
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  harpoon ditch. It's also called the New York of
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  China because it reminds many people of the American city.
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  The city also boasts of a large number of Russian and Jewish
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  immigrants. From the.
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  Turn. Of the 20th century and.
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  Chris, the host of the History of China podcast, lived through
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  the two months of lockdown. That the.
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  City endured during the corona outbreak.
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  I would love to see this city. And so to my 1 listener in
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  Shanghai, I say in Shanghainese, which is not Mandarin and not
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  Cantonese. I say.
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  Ya ya and Wara. Thank you and good night.