BENEDICT, BAGOBO CEBEMONIAL, MAGIC AND MYTH 53 



my friend, Karlos, and will say to his spirit: 'I want you to go with me to 

 the One City.' Then my friend will get a sickness and die, and I shall have 

 a companion; but if he does not want to go with me, I do not force him, 

 but I ask other friends — many." 



After the burial, the ghost-bug can sing no more, for the spirit 

 has started for Gimokudan, and can never again disturb the living 

 by chirping at night. The gimokud is now known also as Kayung. 

 A rain lasting several days, or even a week, is a phenomenon 

 very significant when it occurs immediately after the death of a 

 Bagobo, for it is caused by the tears of the dead gimokud, who is 

 lingering about, waiting for a friend to accompany him. A magical 

 rite must then be performed to still the lamentations of the spirit. 

 Suppose that showers fall incessantly after the death of a boy. 

 Forthwith, his father places a few areca-nuts and betel-leaves, with 

 perhaps a little tobacco, on the ground as an offering to the gimo- 

 kud, and cajoles him with words like these: "Do not cry any more, 

 for you know T you do not love your father ; you w r ould rather go 

 to the Great City." The spell is efficacious; the rain ceases; the 

 gimokud stops its weeping and starts alone on the last journey. 

 This case does not appear to be reconcilable with the belief that 

 the soul leaves the earth for Gimokudan immediately after the 

 funeral, for in the tropics a body cannot be kept for several days 

 unless embalmed, while the metaphorical showers may last for a 

 week. A Malay, however, does not think in exact dialectic, and 

 perhaps would not be conscious of the contradiction. 



Onoug or travel outfit for the soul. The time required for 

 the journey from earth down to the land of the dead, called 

 Kilut, is variously estimated at from two days to one week. A 

 traveling outfit, technically known as onong, is prepared by the 

 friends of the deceased so that he may lack for nothing on the 

 road. The onong includes those articles which are in constant use 

 by the living — betel-box and lime-case, areca-nuts, buyo-leaf, 

 tobacco (for a man), boiled rice, and other necessaries — all of 

 which are placed in carrying-bag or basket and buried with 

 the body. 



In common with the animistic conceptions of many another prim- 

 itive tribe, the belief is held by the Bagobo that it is the spirit- 

 ual substratum or essence of the rice, the buyo or the tobacco, 

 that the gimokud abstracts and enjoys, while the material element 

 is left in the grave with the corpse. This spiritual substance is 



