The story of a living Golden Cow that reside in the mountain was orally told to me by my grandmother.
There was an abandoned mine in the mountain near our village. The old folks told us that is was dug during the last World War II by the Japanese. Further away from the mine in father elevated portion of the mountain overlooking the minefield, there was a humongous cave. Our ancestor told us that there is a golden cow that dwell in that cave. They said that this animal is a property of Tamawo, a superhuman being.
But after the war the dwelling of the Golden Cow was moved to the old mine site.
The villagers had seen it inside the tunnel gnawing the skeleton that belongs to a human.
Some brave men ventured to trap the golden cow but they all failed for it was elusive and banished after sensing the scent of humans.
One day a mystic shaman arrived in our village. He told the villager that he will perform a ritual on the mine site to purged and drove away the Golden Cow because its occurrence near the village caused diseases and ailments upon the residents.
The man laid a trap made of fresh blood of a pig he bought at the market. It was placed inside a sturdy bamboo cage. The Golden Cow was lured by the scent of the blood. It entered into the trap and drink the blood. Then the shaman closed the cage.
The cow attacked the cage but it was sturdy. Then the shaman threw larges chunks of decaying meat into the cow which it devoured hungrily. Later the meat poisoned the cow.
Then the Golden cow melted and the golden matter settled on the ground and become a gleaming boulder of rock. Then the shaman collected large boulder of golden rock to be sold to the refinery of a gold mine operating in the area.
But one villager went to a police station to report that their newly buried dead on the yard of his house was missing.
From the oral account of Martin Santos of Padcal, Benguet.
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