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  • Luca Cumani's Mabait, who has had plenty of time to acclimatise, can also make the frame in an open contest.

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  • Mabait was honest and industrious, while Masama was envious and lazy.

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  • Mabait answered in a trembling voice, "I don't want to be a friend of an evil spirit."

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • Mabait did nearly all of the hard work in the palace, so he was admired very much by the king.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • Masama wondered how Mabait, who was very poor, could buy so many things.

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  • Then Mabait came, and told the king that he could cure the princess.

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  • At the same time, I think it likely that the fairy-tale of "Mabait and the Duende" was already existent earlier in the Islands (though this, too, may have been imported), and that the motivation of the spirit's desire to revenge himself on his tormentor for his avarice and greed was incorporated into the

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  • From that time on Mabait and the duende were good friends.

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  • After sitting for about a half-hour, Masama also set out for the princess's tower, but he reached the palace before Mabait.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • Menguita, a king of Cebu, had two slaves, -- Mabait and Masama.

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