DAKIT TREE

 ILIHAN, TOLEDO CITY, CEBU

    In 1920 up to the present and might be forever, the tree stands mystical, fantastic  and intriguing. Lately, one passenger bus incurred accident that cause the death of some  of its passengers. The driver narrated that he saw a very, very wide clean and clear highway when in reality, it is narrow and crooked road. The tree was tortured by a well known tree cutter by severing its branches and leaves  after a while,  the man died of unknown illness. Eighty six (86) years old “DAKIT” Tree still mystifies the passersby at Barangay Ilihan.

          The myth begins when neighbors detected a passenger truck stopped and no one alighted. Sometimes people on the neighborhood saw lights and someone conversing to another person,  but there is only one person seen. Big animals such as horse, dogs, and others came out  from the tree and later on vanished. From our ancestors it was told that on important and big occasions, party hosts went to the big dakit tree and borrow utensils and wares and forgot to return borrowed things, abusing the kindness, thus such scenario or opportunity of friendliness faded. Things could no longer be borrowed this time. 

          At time when lovers came, the man took home the girl and  stopped in front of the said tree. The man did not expect that the girl was a nymph. The fantasy showed that the tree turned into a huge palace and he was invited by the girl to enter the gates but as the man looked back the palace was not there anymore and asked the neighbors about it and was confirmed that there was  no such  structure as a palace on the site. 

 For now, the tree still proudly stands unaffected.