BEyEDICT, BAGOBO CEREMONIAL, MAGIC AND MYTH 191 



"Do not envy us, Kawanan. 29S We have got you. What is the 

 matter? I see you grieving. You are going there to the One 

 Country. 20 ° Do not be sorry. Go there to the One Country. 

 Do not speak, because you are going there. We are here above. 

 We must eat now at our house because we are alive. You, you 

 are there in the One Country. We are living. If we speak in 

 Bagobo, you must answer in Bagobo. Feet, hands, eyes, nose, 

 mouth, head, belly, forearms, back — you must turn away; you will 

 go out from here. Show the sole of your foot, your palm. It 

 was your short line of life that killed you. Do not come from 

 the One Country. We bury you in the ground ; we dig the walls 

 of the grave. We will set pots on the stones, place dishes, put 

 wood on the fire, cook food, dishing 300 it with spoons. Let us 

 walk far away. We are sleepy. You will be on your road for 

 three nights. When we reach our home, we will rest because we 

 are tired. Walking hurts my knees. My whole body hurts. My 

 arm pains me from elbow to wrist. I am sleepy because I am 

 tired from walking a long way. I hurt my foot on a sharp bamboo 

 sugian 301 while I was getting betel -leaf and cutting bananas. I 

 shall dig camotes to fill the burden baskets, because we are going 

 home to our house; for we will cook them because I am hungry. 

 All day I did not eat until the setting of the sun. We will spread 

 the petati for sleep. Give me a kisi. 302 The mosquitoes are 

 stinging me. Kindle a fire, because many small gnats 303 are biting 

 already. Bad mosquitoes sting me all over. Put away the dishes. 



Tode den Korper verlasst und nach einem paradiesischen Lande gelangt, wo er in aller 

 Ewigkeit verneilt. In den Einzelheiten dieser Legende bestehen aber ziemliche Differenzen, 

 die wohl, zuui Teil wenigstens, auf Vermischung mit ahnlichen, fremdartigen Yorstel- 

 lungeu beruhen. So glauben die Besisi, dass die Seele zunachst sich noch einige Zeit in 

 der Nahe des Grabes aufhalte, und daraus erkliiren sich gewisse, bereits erwahnte Grab- 

 gebr'auche. Auch die Sitte, den Ort, an welchem ein Mensch gestorben ist und begraben 

 wurde, zu verlassen, diirfte mit jener Vorstelluog zusammenhiingen, da naturgemiiss der 

 umschwebende Geist den Hinterbliebenen Schaden tun konnte." Die Inlandstiimme der 

 malayischen Halbinsel, p. 950. 1905. 



298 The good soul, or gimokud takawanan. 



299 The land of the dead, called also the Great Country. 



300 This reference is probably to the funeral feast. 



301 A trap of sharp bamboo points. 



3 ° 2 A mantle of woven cotton which a Bagobo sometimes wraps round him at night. 



303 A hint of the actual condition at the moment, for swarms of little gnats filled 

 the air. In that tropical jungle, the bodies of the men, naked to the the waist, were covered 

 with swarming and crawling things — vermin, black and yellow, long and shiny-looking. 



