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penalty for another transgression, for the old people tell the children 

 that if they should eat the omen bird (limokun) their skin would 

 turn yellow, and they would "get skinny" and die. 



Tulud is the disease to be looked for if the people taking part 

 in a rice-sowing festival do not preserve the proper direction of 

 movement laid down for the Bagobo by a traditional pattern, that 

 is, toward the south. If the direction taken in planting be toward 

 north, or east or west, the tulud sickness would come. Just what 

 form the disease would take is not stated, but that it would cause 

 the patient to grow very thin and die is vaguely surmised. 



Sebullo or nausea, accompanied by excessive vomiting and ending 

 in death, is a fearful penalty waiting for one who laughs at his 

 reflection in the water, for this image is the manifestation of his 

 left-hand soul. 35 ' My informant said: "When you laugh at your 

 ailing in the river, you will die of sebullo, that makes all the food 

 come out of your mouth when you eat." 



Katapuk is a disease that attacks a girl who attempts to em- 

 broider the scarf called salugboy' 358 after the ancient manner of 

 doing needlework. A young girl may wear the scarf, but the 

 privilege of embroidering it is reserved for old women. 



Bog ok is any sickness that comes to a girl who winds about her 

 waist an odd number of times the girdle of brass links called 

 sinhali. It has been noted that bogok is a general term for the 

 class of diseases that result from breaking tabu. 359 



Diseases Caused by Buso 



Undefined and hazy is the line of separation between Buso as 

 a bringer of disease and the disease itself, which is commonly called 

 a buso. Many buso walk the earth under the names of Diseases, 

 and actually enter the body of the person who falls sick; other 

 buso merely operate from a distance and cause suffering, just as 

 does that potential buso, the left-hand soul. The following are a 

 few of the sicknesses that are referred directly to the agency of 

 evil personalities. 



For sarampian or measles, the Bagobo have only the Spanish 



357 See pp. 45, 58, 61. 



358 See pp. 86—87, 128, 130. 



359 See p. 224. 



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