BENEDICT, BAGOBO CEREMONIAL, MAGIC AND MYTH 249 



During a legendary famine that afflicted the Mona, the traditional 

 ancestors of the Bagobo, a little boy with white hair appears to 

 the old man, Tuglay, in his sleep and warns him to stay no longer 

 where there is so little food, but to go to the land of the water- 

 sources. 



A mother whose son has been bewildered by the wood demon, 

 S'iring, and lured to his death, sees at night a dream-boy who 

 stands beside her and bids her perform certain devotional rites that 

 will procure the restoration of her son. 380 



An allied episode is that in the story, "The Sun and the 

 Moon," 381 when a white-haired boy tells the Sun, in a dream, that 

 the Moon mother has hidden away her girl-baby in a box to save 

 her from the cruelty of the Sun. 3S2 



380 Cf. Jour. Am. Folk-Lore; vol. 26, pp. 24—52. Jan.— Mar., 1913. 



381 Cf. ibid., p. 17. 



382 For a discussion of magic, tabu and treatment of disease in certain Melanesian 

 tribes, see Dr. C. G. Sei.igmann's "The Melanesians of British New Guinea," pp. 136 — 140, 

 167—193. 1910. 



The subject of divination, magic and omens among the Todas of Southern India is 

 examined by Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, in his "The Todas," pp. 249—273, 459—460. 



See also Dr. A. C. Haddon's Notes on the Omen Animals of Sarawak, in his "Head- 

 Hunters, Black, White and Brown," pp. 381—393. 1901. Cf. Reports of the Cambridge 

 Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, vol. V, VI, 1904 — 1908, for an analysis 

 of the magic and religion of the western and eastern islanders. 



