Bélgica Dagua, "Talking About Maitu Kuru."

“This caterpillar always changes its little house. Now it has this little house, and it can be found throughout this family of piper plants. I don’t know what you call it. And each one has different species of this caterpillar. I don’t know if you recognize this caterpillar. You can see the wawan kuru caterpillar. This caterpillar is found everywhere here in the forest. It is a caterpillar called maitu kuru. [Where is that caterpillar?] There it is, hidden. Yes, that caterpillar usually wraps itself with leaves. [Win! It wraps itself with leaves.] When it comes out of here, it moves to another leaf. That’s why we call it the maitu kuru caterpillar. Its mother left it here, and that’s why it wrapped itself with leaves. Then it will go to other leaves to wrap itself again. [That’s why they call it the maitu kuru caterpillar.] And is it not used for anything? Doesn’t it have any stories? When it was a person, it ate a lot, especially maitos, and it hid among the leaves because it was still a child. And when it grew up, already transformed into a caterpillar, it continued living among the leaves. That’s what the stories said. You mean when it was a person? Yes, when it was a person it ate many leaves making maitos, and that’s why it usually hid among the leaves. It wrapped itself with leaves like maitos, and from inside it would watch, making small holes in the leaves while looking. And that’s why it received the name maitu kuru caterpillar.”