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by Vincent Gadalon A long time ago almost all the natives of this country believed in superstition. Events like sickness were believed to be the work of the devil. So the natives would try to please the devil and thus obtain health. Natives called this Mogandih. Once there was a boy who went fishing in a stream and caugh four fish called koruk, which he took home. He let the fish swim in a plate of water while he made the cooking pot ready on the fire. While he was doing this his small brother approached the fish without his knowledge. The small boy took a fish to his mouth to taste it and at that moment the fish made sudden movement and went down his troat and stuck there. It was too late when the brother noticed it and the small boy died of suffocation. The family was sad at what had happened, especially the parents. The father was so angry that he took revenge. He went to the stream and caught more koruk by using a kind of trap called bubu. The bubu was almost filled with fish. When he returned the people in the village made solemnfeast of the fish by Mogondih, to avenge the koruk. Some people did a strage dance while they were having the feast.
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