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Overview
A hunter kills a black pig with white legs on a flat rock and enters a door in the stone at a servant’s invitation. The master wears seven-coloured garments; his room has alternating red and yellow stripes, and his wine jar is so large that the guest needs a raised seat to drink. He offers friendship and brotherhood, and the boy stays seven days. The conclusion identifies this apparently hospitable host as the spirit of the great stone.
A friendly spirit later explains that the host read the boy’s hand, foresaw his marriage to an orphan girl whom the host desired, and sent seven warriors to kill him. After their defeat and restoration, the stone spirit attends a feast, the boy marries the orphan, and the spirit marries another woman. The offered brotherhood is not biological parentage; neither the pig nor the servant is stated to be the master in disguise. Cole credits Emerson B. Christie with the earlier recording and discusses perceived Moro influence as an editorial interpretation.
Origins & earliest records
Philippines; Subanun account as grouped by Cole
Records & interpretation
Complete relevant story, collection preface, regional introduction and attached notes directly read.
Selected bibliography
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Philippine Folk Tales
Subanun, The Widow’s Son, pp. 147–152 and notes 25–27
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Primary records and illustrations
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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References
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- 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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