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Rite of human sacrifice called Pag-huaga 106 



Ceremonial at rice-sowing called Mariimmas 171 



Ceremonial at harvest called Iva-pungaan 174 



Marriage rites 180 



Trial marriage 181 



Formal ceremony called Taliduma 181 



Rites attending death and burial 186 



Part III. Every-day forms of religious response 193 



Interviews with the gods called Manganito 193 



Charms and magical rites 203 



Charms by actual defense 206 



Charms by substitution 208 



Charms through association by contiguity 213 



Charms having inherent virtue 217 



Ordeal or test 222 



Disease and healing in their supernatural aspects 223 



Diseases that result from breaking tabu 223 



Diseases caused by buso 225 



Diseases caused by the left-hand soul 227 



Methods of healing sickness 229 



By an act of devotion 229 



By magic 230 



By native materia medica 230 



'Method of burning 232 



Method of external use without burning 233 



Method of internal use without burning 234 



Method of wearing or of carrying medicine on the person 234 



Tabu as a factor of the religious life 235 



Ceremonial tabu 236 



Mythical tabu 238 



Class tabu 240 



.Esthetic tabu 243 



Omens and dreams 245 



Omens 245 



Dreams 248 



Part IV. Problem of sources of ceremonial and myth 250 



Bibliography 279 



Index " 283 



Prefatory Remarks 



The Bagobo form one of those Malay cultural groups in the 

 mountainous country of southeastern Mindanao which have retained 

 their pagan faith in its entirety and have never accepted the religious 

 dictates of Islam. During the period when the Moro dominated 



