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name because, they say, it was unknown before the coming of the 

 Spaniard. It is very severe and often fatal among the wild tribes. 

 A buso is said to enter the body of the child afflicted, and the 

 treatment is to hang small charm figures on the neck of the patient, 

 so that the buso may be attracted into the figures. One small boy 

 told me that he must wear the "little man" for one year after his 

 recovery from measles. 



Timbalung is a form of chronic constipation from which the 

 people suffer miserably, and which is attributed to a buso that has 

 succeeded in getting inside of the human body. The cure consists 

 in the ceremonial application of water to the joints of the body. 

 This treatment is given by an old priest-doctor, who applies the 

 water with a bunch of magical plants, continuing the treatment 

 until excrement is voided and the demon at the same time ejected. 

 "When Buso has come out from the intestines," they say, "the 

 patient feels so light, and immediately gets better." 



Giddiness is caused by a buso named Tagasoro, who in some 

 ways invariably makes the person lose his sense of direction. 



Karokung is a common sickness, of which the symptoms are 

 fever, chills and a racking cough. It is to be traced to a white 

 woman who lives in rivers and is said to be very beautiful. Her 

 hair is long and dark; her feet black, or blue and black, while 

 her legs, too, are black to a line half-way up to the knees. The 

 rest of her body is white. She is very amorous, desiring to em- 

 brace every man she sees, and it is this propensity of hers that 

 throws men into burning fever. When high fever is running, she 

 is said to be putting the man into the fire, hut directly afterwards 

 she plunges into the river, and forthwith the patient begins to 

 shiver. Xobody has ever seen the Karokung woman, but many 

 people have dreamed about her, and thus her characteristics are 

 completely established. When a Bagobo woman, however, has chills 

 and fever, her symptoms are caused by a white man with long 

 hair, who also lives in the river and behaves like the Karokung 



w an. in either case, the treatment consists iii burning the 



deserted nest of a limokuri or of some other bird, and allowing 

 the patient to inhale the smoke. Another effective remedy is to 

 smell the fumes that come from burning a few wisps of hair cut 

 from the coat of the flying lemur, called tungalung; or one may 

 simply lay before a god some Little agricultural offering. These 

 disease-bringing river inhabitants have none of the ear-marks of 



