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person would die, but this is a sign and now somebody will die and 

 some will be well. 



Dayapan went home and when she arrived there she began to learn 

 to make dawak, and she called all people to hear her and she told all she 

 had seen and heard. Then the people believed her very much. When 

 somebody was sick, they called Dayapan to see them and to show them 

 how to make them well. So Dayapan taught them all kinds of dawak 

 which the spirit had told her because before when Dayapan was sick, 

 no one knew the dawak. 1 



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Many years ago there was a woman whose name was Bagutayka. 

 She had had only one daughter whose name was Bagan. A boy who 

 lived in Lantagan wished to marry Bagan, but she did not wish to 

 marry him because she had no vagina, and she was ashamed. Her 

 mother said, "Take this little pot with pictures on the outside, and this 

 sucker of banana and go to the roadside where people are passing. 

 When people are passing, you will make them sick in their knees or 

 feet." Then poor Bagan went by the roadside. In a short time a 

 man passed by her; after that he was sick in his knees and did not walk, 

 he only lived in his house, and could not move his hands or feet. His 

 parents were troubled to find medicine for him, for none they found 

 did him good. They used all the medicine that they knew. Then 

 Bagan went to see him in his house and told him to make bawl. 2 The 

 sick man said to her, "How do we make bawl, for we have never heard 

 about that?" Bagan said, "Bring me a white cloth, a basket of rice, 

 some thread, a betel-nut, coconut, a rooster, and toknang." 3 They 

 brought all of these, and Bagan took them. Then they built a bawl 

 in the garden and planted the sucker by it. They broke the coconut 

 shell, killed the rooster, and took his feathers to put in the coconut 

 husk, and they broke the coconut meat. 



They made sablau near the bawl and put the coconut meat in it. 

 When they had done this, the man who was sick was as good as if he 

 had not been sick, he could walk just as before. This is the way the 

 Tinguian people learned to make bawl. 



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In the first times Kabomyan told a sick man to go to the mango tree 

 at the edge of the village. "Take a feather for your hair, a clay dish 



1 A somewhat similiar tale, current among the Dayak, will be found in Roth, 

 The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo, Vol. I, p. 309 ff . 



2 A small spirit house built during the bawl ceremony. 



3 A kind of grass. 



4 Account concerning the guardian stones at Patok. 



