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Overview

In Benedict’s How a Dog Scared the Buso, Tigbanua are the most dangerous Buso, continually wanting human flesh. Different individuals dwell in named forest trees, and a chief commands them from a sigmit tree. A hunter hears the chief’s command that they should leave him alone because he has visited before. Some nevertheless descend around his fire.

The hunter covers his sleeping dog with a tunic. The descending Tigbanua mistake the figure for a person, then flee when the dog moves, interpreting it as a formidable being. In the adjacent Tagamaling account, Tigbanua are again distinguished by their unchanging appetite, and their chief is the datu of the Buso. The tales provide social organization and forest encounters without establishing a uniform anatomy.

Human-flesh appetiteTree dwellingsChief and commandsDog encounter
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Origins & earliest records

Philippines; Bagobo collected traditions

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Records & interpretation

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Selected bibliography

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    Bagobo Myths

    Laura Watson Benedict · 1913

    Bagobo Myths: How a Dog Scared the Buso; Story of Duling and the Tagamaling; Journal of American Folk-Lore26:13–63

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Primary records and illustrations

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Bagobo Myths

Bagobo collected traditions. Bagobo Myths: How a Dog Scared the Buso; Story of Duling and the Tagamaling

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  1. Historical collection / primary recorded narrativeBagobo Myths — Bagobo Myths: How a Dog Scared the Buso; Story of Duling and the TagamalingResearch access: 2026-10-05

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