"Hear me, Tabloc-laui!" said the prisoner. "If you want to marry the chief's daughter, let me out and get in here in my place; for tomorrow they will come and ask you if you will consent. Then you will be married at once".


"I am willing!" exclaimed Tabloc-laui. "Get out and I will take your place!"


Next morning the chief ordered his soldiers to take the cage with the prisoner to the sea and submerge it in the water.


Tabloc-laui, on seeing the soldiers coming toward him, thought they would make inquiries of him as Pusong had said.


"I am ready now", he said, "I am ready to be the princess's husband".


"Is this crazy fellow raving?", asked the soldiers. "We are ordered to take you and submerge you in the sea".


"But", objected Tabloc-laui, "I am ready now to marry the chief's daughter".


He was carried to the sea and plunged into the water, in spite of his crying, "I am not Pusong! I am Tabloc-laui!"


The next week the chief was in his boat, going from one fish-trap to another, to inspect them. Pusong swam out to the boat.


The chief, on seeing him, wondered, for he believed that Pusong was dead. "How is this?" he asked. "Did you not drown last week?"


"By no means. I sank to the bottom, but I found that there was no water there. There is another world where the dead live again. I saw your father 

and he charged me to bid you go to him, and afterwards you will be able to come back here, if you wish to do so". "Is that really true, Pusong?" asked the chief. "Yes, it is really true", was the reply.


"Well, I will go there. I will have a cage made and go through the way you did".

Juan Pusong and Tabloc-laui - A Visayan folktale