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application of heated leaves to skin burning from the sting of bees, 

 and the use of bile from serpents to cure snake-bite. 



Some mountain Bagobo eat the flesh of monkeys to prevent sores, 

 for they say, quoting the myth of "The Buso-monkey," U1 that 

 the monkey sometimes turns into a buso, and that sores are caused 

 by a buso. This appears to be a Bagobo case of the aphorism that 

 "like cures like." 



Charms' through Association by Contiguity 



We have here a number of magical performances where the psy- 

 chological association may be readily understood, and which suggest 

 the principle of association by contiguity; that is to say, a clustering 

 of elements that belong together is made, witli the expectation 

 that they will attract some other element which is commonly 

 joined to them. Certain magical groupings regularly induce certain 

 phenomena; make these groupings and the result is psychologically 

 mandatory. Some charms that come under this category suggest 

 Frazer's examples of "contagious magic." 



In time of drought, the Bagobo call the rain by washing 343 the 

 chickens, the goats, 344 the clay pots and the dishes, because, they 

 say. chickens and goats and pots cannot wash themselves in the river, 

 and if these animals and objects get wet it must be from a shower. 



Another charm to call the rain is the following formula: 



"Rain, rain on tagbak tree; 345 

 Make mud verj- wet ; 

 Kill the little chickens; 

 Drops like basikung." 



Here the association suggested is with rain so heavy as to be 

 heard pattering sharply on the stiff leaves of the tagbak in drops 

 like a round heavy fruit, big enough to kill a chick. 



3<l See Jour. Am. Folk-Lore; vol. 26, pp. 46—48. 1913. 



3 * * A charm for rain-making was told to Skeat by a Malay woman of Selangor, who 

 said that "if a Malay woman puts upon her head an inverted earthenware pan . . . and 

 then, setting it upon the ground, tills it with water and washes the cat in it until the 

 latter is more than half drowned, heavy rain will certainly ensue." Malay magic, p. 108. 1900. 



""" The Bagobo do not keep goats; the goat's hair used by them is obtained in barter 

 from the Bila-an tribe. The inclusion of goats in this charm is perhaps traceable to 

 some Bila-an tradition. 



31,0 Cf. the Selangor charm to bring rain, "Though the stem of the Meranti tree 

 rocks to and fro." W. W. Skeat : op. cit., p. 109. 



