Brigham City Bugler | 1891-08-01 | Page 2 | Vandettas in the Philippines

Vendettai In th Philippines, Blood vengeance Is a sacred law wlthths ; Quianganea. If one plebeian is killed by another the matter la settled in a simple manner by killing the murderer or some one of his family who Is likewise a plebeian. plebe-ian. But if a prominent man or noble li killed by a plebeian vengeance- on the murderer, mur-derer, a mere plebeian, la not enough; tha victim of the sin offering must be an equivalents rank. Another nobleman muBt fall for the murdered mur-dered noble, for their doctrine 1b, What kind of an equivalent Is it to kill some one who Is no better than a dogf Hence the family of the slain noble lookB around to see if It cart not find a relative of the murderer mur-derer to wreak vengeance upon who iu also a noble, while the murderer himself Is Ignored. Ig-nored. If no noble cau be found among his relatives the family of the murdered man wuitpaticntly tillsome one of them It received Into the noble's caste; then the vendetta Is prosecuted, although many years may have elapsed. When the blood feud is satisfied a reconciliation recon-ciliation of the contending factions takes place. In all the feuds the heads of the murdered champions are cut off and take a home, and tho head hunters celebrate the affair festally. Tho skulls are fixed to tha front of the house. Professor F. Blumeu-tritt Blumeu-tritt iu Popular Science Monthly.