It may sound like a fantasy but when I looked at the evidence they had for a long time I just can't believe that it really happened. At a young age a story has been told to me by my lola and my family. As I said it sounds like that it can only happened in fairy tale because that's what I know and what the books and lessons in schools taught us. I will tell this experienced of my lola back then when she encountered a woman in white having a long hair. It's up to you if you will believe it or not but I know that it's happening here in provinces around the country.
This one happened when my lola was sleeping in the katre(bed made out of bamboo) outside our house. She was sleeping comfortably and deeply, actually it's a nap in the afternoon. Upon her sleep someone was calling her name repeatedly. It was a voice of a woman. The woman was very persistent in waking up my lola. It seemed that she wanted to tell something badly important to my sleeping lola.
She succeeded in waking up my lola. Grandma wakes up and as she rubbed and opened her eyes She saw a woman wearing in a nice beautiful long white dreess. The woman had a very long hair reaching upto her toes. A real Rapunzel lol but she's not. Upon hearing the characteristics of the girl I thought of rapunzel haha and a white lady because she's wearing a white dress but she's not also. The woman explained to my lola who she was and why she looks like that.
The woman explained that she was a guardian to some treasure hidden somewhere near our place. She also told to my lola that other people out there can't see her and she's the only one who can. My lola was in shocked because she came out of nowhere, out of the blue. Anyone will be shocked after an encounter like that right. My lola didn't believed what's happening so she slapped her face suspecting that it's only a dream and she needs to wake up.
She did it for several times but guess what nothing happened and when the woman told her to touch her body. The hand of my lola past through her body. She tried to composed her thoughts and emotions but she was frightened by the woman so she hid inside of our house expecting that the woman will leave but nothing happened, the woman was still there waiting for her.
Grandma was annoyed so she went outside and she asked the woman what she want. The woman replied "Nabayag kan nga banbantayan kit nakitak nga nasayaat ta puso isu nga nagpakita ak kinyam ta adda kuma ti kayat ko nga ited kenka" in Ilokano. In english "I've been watching you for a long time and I have seen that you have a good heart so I would like to give you something". My lola was amazed because she knows how to speak in ilokano. Their conversation goes on and the woman gave instructions to my lola where and how they can get what she wanted to give.
She told lola that somewhere else in near our place there's a treasure, a diamond to be exact. That somewhere else was located near the basketball court in our place. She told that 10 steps from the first coconut tree at the entrance of the mini forest beside the basketball court, that's the location they need to dig. There's a huge Tamarind tree in that location. She told that they only need to dig 3 and half meters in order get the rocks containing the diamonds. She also told that they need to offer fresh blood from a chicken. Lola followed all the given instructions from the woman. Grandma told it to lolo and to my father about it.
My father, lolo and together with my lolo's brother in law started to dug up a hole beside the tamarind tree. While they are dugging up the hole, the woman told to my lola that she don't have to worry because she's guiding them and making them to not get tired while dugging up the treasure. My lola ask them if they are getting tired of dugging up but they replied that they are not and they feel so very energetic. They continue to dug and dug until they found the first stone,it's size was big as the ball in basketball.
They continue dugging then another sets of stones bigger than the first one and stones big as the ball in volleyball. The woman said that they need to see the marking on the stones, it's a letter x with the color of blue and it's true that there's a markings on it. Not all the stones they found has markings, only the selected ones. While they were dugging and dugging the turn of events happened wherein my lolo's brother in law went crazy and consumed by his greed to get all the diamonds inside the stones.
It happened at night, he get one stone, carry it in their house then burned it expecting that by burning it he will get the diamonds out of the stones. The woman learned the incident so she gets disappointed to the man who burned it. He go against the rule wherein they need to dug up all the stones before opening it. As the incident happened, the woman said that all the diamonds has gone because of the greediness of that one man.
She told lola that there's more diamonds hidden in stones but there's a corresponding offer that needs to be met and that was the life of my father and grandfather who will dug the remaining diamonds. Lola didn't want that offer sp she refused to continue the treasure hunting. She can't risk the lives of my father and lolo. She said to the woman that the life of her son and her husband is more important than those diamonds. From then the woman disappeared and she never showed up to my lola again until now. There's a name of that woman but lola forgot it.
Sometimes greediness will only cause such disasters that can change the whole flow of events in one situation. Being greedy in a bad way is not a good trait to have so be careful. Asses yourself.
That ends my article for today. Thank you for reading this far and see yah in my next articles. I hope that you won't be greedy in bad ways just like the man did.
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Too bad. Pera na naging bato pa. But really life is not just a thing to exchange for diamonds.