Began as a post-harvest celebration by workers in an hacienda, recognizing the scarecrow as traditional sentinels of the town’s rice fields and, therefore, guardians of the town’s future.
Features giant papier mache scarecrows (tawo-tawo in the vernacular) and streetdancers costumed as denizens of the rice fields, i.e., carabaos and maya birds. Recent showdowns included a brief dramatization of the legend surrounding the town’s place name, where a fierce native slays the priest at the height of the Mass, during the elevation, or bayaw.
Moved from its original February date when Bayawan’s city charter was signed on December 23, 2000.
