ma-
For a rice pot to tip over on the stove and the contents spill out.
Naligang tang dinongkol animan indi ra poiding panganen tenged
malas.
The rice being cooked spilled
out therefore it can't be
eaten because that would bring bad luck.
If a rice pot falls over into the “eye” of the cooking
grate while cooking, all of the rice (even good rice, if left
in the pot) must be thrown out. To eat it could bring bad
luck.
ligang
For a place or people to be cursed with bad luck
because of something terrible that was done, in which
something was thrown out or where blood was spilled.
Ganing tang mga mepet, ligang tang banoa ta tenged may molang
pinlek ong baybay.
The old people say our town is cursed because there was
a baby thrown out on the beach.