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various dangers. All these adventures, with their accompanying 

 sensations, are experienced by the Bagobo in his dreams. As a 

 Bagobo youth explained to me: "When I dream at night, my 

 gimokud tebang is flying and the buso is catching me , or I am 

 falling from a cliff. I dream that I am riding on a boat and 

 fishing in the sea. Many ships I see there that the buso are 

 riding. They look like men with ugly faces and coarse black hair 

 all over their bodies, and some have wings. Then I try to run away." 



There is an element of real danger in these dream exploits of 

 the left-hand soul, for it is stated that if the tebang should be 

 caught and eaten by a buso, the human body to which it belongs 

 must die, for the buso, having swallowed the soul, instantly goes 

 in search of the body itself. 



One startling exploit of the left-hand soul, that has become known 

 to the Bagobo in dreams, is an attempt to reach the Great City 

 and there join the good spirits in their pleasant home. The 

 tebang gets as far as the City of the Black River, but there is 

 stopped by Mebuyan, who asks, "Are you alive?" The tebang 

 replies, "Yes, Lady," and then Mebuyan dismisses him with the 

 words: "Go back to where you came from." Now, if the left-hand 

 soul still persists in forcing an entrance, and tries to bathe his 

 joints in the dark river, like the more fortunate right-hand soul, 

 he gets wet feet and becomes very sick, and is obliged to return 

 to earth. 



Closely connected with dreams, are the delusions experienced in 

 trance by diseased or neurotic individuals, who, on waking, describe 

 frightful visions in graphic detail. I (mote from a story given by 

 the boy, Islao. 



"There are two kinds of dreams: the tagenup and the orup. In the orup, 

 you see nothing; you hear nothing. You will die. The Buso will kill you, 

 if you have no companion to waken you. The orup is making noise without 

 words. A man who wakens from orup tells about it: he says his body is 

 heavy; all the time he hears a sound like the leaves moving in the wind, 

 or like the noise in your ears when you swim. He sees a big man with 

 one eye holding him; the eye looks like a great bowl in the middle of his 

 forehead. Many men who wake up from orup say this. The big man is a 

 buso who wants to carry him off and eat him." 



Thus we have the ordinary adventure dream, called tagenup ; and 

 the trance or the delirium accompanying a pathological condition, 

 called orup. In both cases, the left-hand soul is supposed to ab- 



