My mother used to tell me this story since I was a kid.
From the oral account of Venida Nuesca of Luna, La Union
My mother said when a rainbow appeared around the moon at its full moon phase, it's a portend of drowning incident. She said that one night of full moon she saw the rainbow. Our house which is situated in a higher ground overlooking the sea which is just a stone-throw away from it, heard a haunting song of a young lady. The voice keep repeating the song that says, she needed a boy as sacrifice for her immortality.
Immediately on the very morning, my mother warned all the villagers about what she heard that night. The villagers never went out to sea that day. But a man from another village with his son who is just a 10-year- old boy went spearfishing on the sea on the nearby rocks. He disregard the admonition of my mother. He never believed on the ominous sign that was told to him..
The man left the boy on the sandy beach and dived to spear fishes under the rocks. When he surfaced he look at the boy and saw him playing with the sands. He went down again but latter when he surfaced, his son was gone. He looked around and saw him running toward the sea away from his position. He shouted at the bay but he run fast and jumped on the water where the waves pounded.
The boy was lost from his sight.
He ran toward the area and dived under. Luckily he saw his son flat at the bottom of the rock. He pulled him and surfaced. The boy was saved.
When he asked his son why he did it, he replied that he was chasing a beautiful flying fish and he knew that he was running on the sand and saw no deep water on his path.
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