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To ask for an ember to start a fire.
Tenged anday mabakal na ta posporo, animan kada magparet ta apoy
pangaraw lamang ong kamalay na.
Because he has no money to buy matches, therefore every time he
will start a fire he is just asking
for
an
ember from his
neighbor.
Bawal ang mangaraw ta apoy mga ang kosi nangana.
It's taboo to ask
for
an
ember
to
start
a
fire if the
owner's cat has just given birth.
In the past some people believed that you could not ask for an
ember from a neighbor if their cat had just given birth.
Otherwise the cat would carry its kittens to another house.