Background
The gabâ can be characterized through various Cebuano proverbs:
- It is not necessarily immediate in its effect. (Ang gabâ dili sama sa sili nga mohalang dayon.)
- It may come unexpectedly. (Ang gabâ dili magsaba.)
- It is not limited to transgressions against fellow human beings: objects considered holy can also cause gabâ, such as dropping on the ground a sacred root crop of ubi. (The concept was later extended to religious icons such as bibles or rosaries). Even the least-valued object may cause it. (Bisan ang ube makagabâ.)
- It could happen to persons who are important to the transgressor. For example, people would say "gigabân" of a womanizing father whose daughter has a child out of wedlock.
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