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Overview

When seven warriors threaten the widow’s son, a nearby voice urges him to fight and the weapons he left at home appear. After he defeats them and a giant, the same voice tells him to return to his grieving mother. He instead lashes out, and the spirit puts him briefly to sleep, ending his fighting frenzy. It then reveals the stone spirit’s plot and promises to restore the slain enemies. At the final reconciliation feast, the seven warriors and giant appear with both spirits. The helper has no personal name or described anatomy and is not identified with the hostile stone-dweller.

Unseen helper who supplies weapons and restores defeated enemiesPublic traditional narrative
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Origins & earliest records

Philippines; Subanun account as grouped by Cole

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Records & interpretation

Complete relevant story, collection preface, regional introduction and attached notes directly read.

Selected bibliography

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    Philippine Folk Tales

    Mabel Cook Cole, compiler and annotator · 1916

    Subanun, The Widow’s Son, pp. 147–152 and notes 25–27

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

Mabel Cook Cole, Philippine Folk Tales (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1916)

Subanun section. Subanun, The Widow’s Son, pp. 147–152 and notes 25–27

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  1. Historical collected narrative and editorial notesCole, Philippine Folk Tales (1916), Subanun, The Widow’s Son, pp. 147–152 and notes 25–27Research access: 2026-10-05

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