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A Dream Can Change You
By: Mia Frances Inso, 1-B
Once upon a time in Cordillera, there was a girl named Bugan. Every time her mother called her to do something, she pretends to be deaf.
“Bugan! Come, cook while I fetch water,” said her mother.
Bugan still laid on her bed pretending she heard nothing.
“Bugan! Please, fetch water,” said her mother in the afternoon.
Again, Bugan pretended to hear nothing and continued playing.
“Bugan! Please come and help me wash the dishes,” said her mother in the evening.
Bugan still pretended to hear nothing and continued playing.
One night, when Bugan was asleep, she dreamt that a fairy went to her and turned her deaf. She dreamt that her mother was shouting at her but she cannot hear it.
“There’s a snake!” shouted her mother.
But Bugan was deaf and she couldn’t hear a thing. As the snake was about to bite her, she woke up.
“Bugan, please fetch water,” shouted her mother.
Bugan heard what her mother said and she realized that it was just a dream. She hurriedly went to fetch water. From then on, she always did what her mother told her. #
Pig Man
By: Jeannee Sumedca
Once upon a time in Sagada, the corn crops of the Igorots were damaged heavily by a wild pig nobody could catch.
A brave and strong hunter named Dogidog said, “This night, that pig will have its last breath.”
The hunters went out in the middle of the night to catch the wild pig with their trained dogs. When the hunters saw the pig eating a corn, Dogidog threw his sharp spear but it didn’t strike the pig. The pig ran straight into the village instead of the mountain. The hunters stopped chasing the pig as soon as they got to the houses because they couldn’t find it. Nobody could understand what happened to the pig.
But one dark night, a hunter went out to visit his cornfield and noticed the tracks of a very strange animal. This hunter, named Gagsiit, thought that these footprints were perhaps made by the wild pig, but they were as large as mans. Gagsiit followed the footprints until he discovered the wild pig in the very act of eating his corn.
Gagsiit thought, “What a pig!!! This pig is holding a corn just like a man.”
Gagsiit threw his spear at the pig while it was eating. The pig ran away but the spear that hit the pig was stuck in its left front leg. It ran of with it. When it got to the village, the hunter stopped chasing it.
“That pig is really amazing,” said Gagsiit.
The next morning, all hunters including Gagsiit went in every house in the village to find the pig. Gagsiit happened to stop at the house of a poor man named Danggilang and his wife Adomey. They never worked. In fact, the people suspected them of stealing food. Then, the hunter saw his lost spear in the old couple’s house. Gagsiit noticed that Danggilang was badly wounded in the left arm.
The next night, it was a full moon and everyone was awakened by the sound of a furious dog fight. The people rushed out and saw that all the dogs were attacking a much larger dog that nobody has seen before. The dog walked with a limp, as if one of its legs was broken. The hunters took their bolos and surrounded the dog. They managed to catch the dog and tied it up with some rope.
“Where could that huge dog have come from?” mumbled the people.
The next morning, Dogidog went to see the dog. When he got to where the dog was, he noticed that only the rope was there. Dogidog went to see Gagsiit because he suspected that Danggilang is both the pig and the dog. They saw Danggilang with a wounded left arm and a broken back. He was dying. Dogidog asked himself, “What is happening? Could it be that this old man is the mysterious animal?”
Gagsiit replied, “Perhaps. We can see that all that has happened to the dog and the pig has also happened to him.”
Danggilang was about o talk but he breathed his last.
After the old man’s death, his wife Adamey told everyone about her husband.
She said, “My husband was the creature all of you are talking about. When I wake up in the middle of the night, all I see beside me are my husband’s clothes.
Now, everybody knew that Danggibang the pig and the huge dog.
After that, the people of Sagada no longer suffered any loss of crops in their farms. #
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