Kalias wrestling match with Mateo Carino

Due to the lack of time to edit my column for the November 30 issue, I was not able to correct what I wrote about the late Tagdi marrying the  late Josefa Carino.

The story should have read thus:  “her father married Josefa Carino because it was the price his father had to pay for winning in a wrestling match that the late Mateo Carino challenged him (Kalias) to do  with him (Mateo Carino).  

 According to her, the late Mateo challenged the late Kalias to wrestle with him, and if he (Kalias) wins, his son should marry his (Mateo’s) daughter. 

 Kalias won, and because his youngest and only living son at that time was Tagdi, then called Comising, or Mising for short, he was the one ordered to marry Josefa, Mateo Carino’s daughter.

 So Tagley when he reached the marriageable age for men at that time, went to Josefa’s place which is now the site of the Baguo City Athletic Bowl to serve her.  That was by plowing her land.

But every night when it is time for them to be together, the late Bayosa, Josefa’s mother, would let her (Josefa) take care of a baby so she had no time to be alone with her husband.

Because that happened every night of their short married life, Mising decided to leave.  He married Solicam Baticalang instead, and they lived in a house built on a spot where the Baguio Cathedral now stands.  They had their first baby there, and almost had the second there also.  But when the Americans came, they left the place for Bisil which was another part of the Baticalang and/or Baticalang’s wife’s land. 

Solicam was a sister of the late Piraso, father of the late Cosen.

 The late Tagdi felt that the late Bayosa did not like him fo ra son-in-law, so he left.  Later, he learned from the Americans that it is not good for close relatives to marry each other.  He was glad  he did not continue to live with Josefa  because her mother was his cousin by his Aunt Mahaycha, a.k.a Kavingkhot who was his father’s first cousin.  To be continued.  B.T.Pistola

         

 B.T. Pistola
 
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Published:
Volume 1, No 21
TNT, Baguio City, Philippines
November 30, 2014
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