Final Draft later published under The Historical Bulletin 55 (2021): 114-143 King Maranhig: A Reassessment of a Pavon Manuscript Legend Talaguit, Christian Jeo N. Abstract In 1968, the prominent local historian William Henry Scott disproved the authenticity of the infamous Kalantiaw Code as a legitimate primary pre-colonial document, which was being taught as fact by the local education system for many decades. He argued convincingly that the Code and its parent document, the so-called Pavon Manuscripts, was nothing more than an elaborate forgery of one Jose E. Marco and it had no historical validity. Since then, no modern scholar challenges Scott’s conclusion and the Pavon Manuscripts have met its demise in the historical-academic circles. However, the document had recently come to the attention of the researcher due to its collection of supposed local folklore in Negros Island. One particular legend, called King Maranhig, is the primary focus of this study because it appears to contain legitimate Bisayan folkloric elements. The researcher maintains Scott’s conclusion that the external document is a 20th century historical forgery however, within the field of folklore, he also argues for the legitimacy of this story as a source of Bisayan-Negros oral folklore that appears have been added by Marco in an attempt to provide a legitimacy for his faulty document. Keywords: (1) Maranhig, (2) Pavon Manuscripts, (3) Hiligaynon Mythology, (4) Panay Epics, (5) Barang