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has only fco interpose this flat basket between herself and the demon. 

 "Hold it in front of you when you hear the buso," said an old 

 woman who brought me a digo, 33s "and he will scratch it with 

 his claws, and his claws will stick in it, and he will die." 



A woman expecting to become a mother is liable to attack from 

 a buso; hence to defend herself at night time she must put near 

 her, before going to sleep, all the swords and knives 33 ° that the 

 house contains, for if this precaution be neglected the buso comes 

 and, in some unknown way, he metamorphoses her child into a 

 buso-child. 



A legendary charm that is said to be resorted to by young vir- 

 gins to protect their chastity is a cloth of fine tapestry which has 

 flu- name of tambayang, a type of embroidery rare in these days 

 but a well-known art in earlier times. In one of the Bagobo songs 

 it is told that if a girl has spread the tambayang over herself. 

 before going to sleep, no man is able to approach her. 



The wake, or damag, in the house of death is effective in keeping 

 buso from the house because of his fear of living men, and thus 

 may be properly classed in this group of defensive charms. 



Charms />;/ Substitution 



We have now to consider a group of charms which might be 

 called charms by substitution, where the tendency is found to 

 substitute one thing for another. Such magical devices follow the 

 principle of association by resemblance, a small class, it would 

 appeal-, from the actual number of charms listed here, but from 

 a psychological point of view a group of some interest, since it 

 includes all tricks for fooling Uuso by images made in the likeness 

 of man or of animal. 



Little wooden manikins are laid down at (iinum and are told 

 to draw into themselves the had diseases that threaten to force 

 their way into the bodies of the Bagobo. 



To prevent or to cure measles, which is regarded as one of the 



310 This winnower {digo) that was used by the old woman as an object lesson is now 

 in the American Museum of Natural History. 



330 ('/'. the episode in an Indian Baga, where the "lying-in chamber" was hang with 

 various weapons. Cf. Somadeva: op. cit., vol. 1, ]>. 189. For a Bagobo tale bearing on 

 this charm, see Jour. Am. Folk-Lore, vol. 86, p. 46. 1918. 



