Here a stake was thrust into the ground and straw wrapt about it, so as to make a rude effigy of human form with arms, head, and face. Every songs of the ilocano brought a handful of nosegays and fastened them to the straw-man, who was thus enveloped in flowers. Fuel was heaped about the stake and set on fire. When the Angel-man, as the straw-effigy was called, blazed up, all the boys of the neighbourhood, who had gathered expectantly around, fell songs of the ilocano him with their wooden swords and hewed him to pieces. As soon as he had vanished in smoke and flame, the lads leaped backward and forward over the glowing embers, and later in the evening they feasted on the proceeds of their collection. The identification was probably modern, for we may assume that the custom of songs of the ilocano an effigy in the Midsummer bonfire is far older than the time of Luther. Here, as elsewhere, a close connexion was traced between these bonfires and the harvest.