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animals, 85 there are, in addition, a large number of evil personal- 

 ities that have peculiar and permanent bestial shapes. These are 

 myth animals — the so-called bad animals — of strange shapes 

 and ill-matched members, that are visualised as curious modifica- 

 tions of familiar beasts and birds, or, more often, are purely fanciful 

 products. Doubtless there are hundreds of such fabulous animals 

 awaiting the discovery of the field worker, but the following names 

 will at least suggest what sort of creature a myth animal may be. 



Most important of all, probably, is Kilat, g0 that gigantic un- 

 gulate — it may be horse or it may be carabao — that runs 

 through the sky, and during a storm makes his voice heard in 

 claps of thunder. When the roaring is loudest, the people expect 

 Kilat to fall to the earth, and to bring in his train numerous 

 diseases. 



Many buso have the form of deer, notable among which is Naat, 

 with his one good horn, and his one bad horn that has a branch 

 pointing downward. 87 



Numbers of buso are snakes, whose chief is Mamili, called "king 

 of snakes." 



The Buso-monkey is well known in myth, 8S and even at this time 

 not only are there many buso who are lutung, or monkeys, but a 

 normal ape occasionally turns into a buso. 



Timbalung is a disease-bringer whose home is on the mountains, 

 and who is said to be "a big bad animal that goes into the belly 

 and makes the Bagobo very sick." It is thought dangerous to speak 

 the name of this buso, and children are so instructed; but occasion- 

 ally somebody will mention him in connection with the sickness 

 he causes. 



85 Aduarte writes of the natives of Nueva Segovia that, "The aniteras . . . dreamed 

 that they saw their anitos in the form of carabaos or of buffaloes, and of black men." 

 Blair and Robertson: op. cit., vol. 31, p. 35. 1905. Chirino, 1603, writes in like 

 phrases that "another Indian, while very ill, was afflicted with horrible apparitions ; 

 •when he was left alone, hideous and furious black men appeared to him, threatening 

 him with death." Ibid., vol. 13, p. 78. 1904. 



Morga, 1609, writes of the Pintados (Visayan) : "The devil usually deceived them 

 with a thousand errors and blindnesses. He appeared to them in various horrible and 

 frightful forms, and as lierce animals, so that they feared him and trembled before him." 

 Ibid., vol. 16, p. 131. 1904. 



86 For the myth concerning Kilat, see pp. 48 — 49. 



8 T See "Ceremony of Awas." 



88 Cf. op. cit. Jour. Am. Folk-lore, vol. 26, pp. 46—48. 1913. 



