The Cat

Very long ago the coconut used to be the head of the cat. That is why the cat loves coconut so much. When the Bagobo are eating coconut, they let the cat jump up and have some too, because her head once turned into a coconut. When the cat hears the Bagobo scraping coconut in the kitchen, she runs quickly to get some to eat.

We cut off some of the fur from the tip of the cat's tail, and put the hairs under one of the big stones (sigung) where the fire burns. This is why the cat loves the house where she lives.

When the cat dies, her gimokud takawanan [130] goes down to Gimokudan, where the spirits of dead people go.