342 The Tinguian 



in a loud voice she asked the spirits that, since the family was now 

 celebrating tangpap, they would please make them well again. The 

 shield was fastened to the wall, new offerings of basi were placed 

 in the kalang, and after it had been swung over the head of the patient, 

 it was again fastened above the house beam near to the roof. 



For the next hour the mediums summoned spirits to them. The first 

 five had little of interest to offer, except that each demanded that his 

 liquor be served to him on a head-axe. When the spirit Amangau ar- 

 rived, he spent the time boasting of his head-hunting exploits; he told 

 of how he had gone to one village, and had killed all the people, except 

 one pregnant woman, and of the dance which followed. Finally he 

 claimed the credit of having killed a man who had recently died in 

 Manabo, and assured the people that his friends were then dancing 

 about the head. The spirit Banbanyalan, who followed, disclaimed 

 any part in the killing just mentioned, but verified the statement of 

 his predecessor. 



Tomakdeg came, and after filling his mouth with rice, blew it out 

 over the people, in the same way that the sickness was to be spit out. 

 Meanwhile Bebeka-an, armed with a wooden spoon, tried to dig up 

 the floor and the people on it, "for that is the way she digs up sick- 

 ness." Awa-an, a spirit of the water, came to inform the people that 

 the spirit of a man recently drowned was just passing the house. Every- 

 thing else was abandoned for a few moments, while basi was poured 

 out of the window, so that the dead might receive drink. 



Two female spirits, Dalimayawan and Ginlawan, came at the same 

 time and danced together, while they informed the people of their 

 beauty and their expertness in dancing. Suddenly they stopped, and 

 said that Andayau, the mother of Lakgangan, was near by ; then they 

 instructed the host that he should wrap a gourd in a cloth and tell 

 Andayau that it was her son's head, and that he had been killed, because 

 he had stolen carabao. Scarcely had the two visitors departed, when 

 the mother appeared, and being informed of her son's death, she began 

 to wail, "He is lost. No one works the fields, where we planted cala- 

 basa. Lakgangan is lost, he who has been killed. Why did you go to 

 steal carabao ? We have put Lakgangan in a hammock ; we take him to 

 Tomakdang. The basi put out for Lakgangan is good. He is lost 

 whom they went to kill. Lakgangan is lost. We take him to Tomak- 

 dang." 



The song was interrupted by a head-hunting spirit, who demanded 

 the heads of two visiting girls from Patok, but she finally went away 

 satisfied with a piece of cloth which they gave her. Blood and oil were 



