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and may be nine, twenty, one hundred, or any number of fathoms 

 in length, but if the catch is to be successful there must be an 

 extra measure called kalingi added to the length. The kalingi is 

 measured from the left shoulder to the tip of the right middle 

 finger, or from the right shoulder to the tip of the left middle 

 finger. This shoulder-measure makes the fish react to the bait, by 

 impelling it do turn its head back "over its shoulder" to bite. 



As another charm for catching fish, certain kinds of wax are 

 stuck in small lumps on the hook. This is done, they say, merely 

 to attract the fish, not to stupify it, and while the significance of 

 wax in this connection has not been disclosed, its stickiness may 

 have a drawing efficacy, since a similar substance is used as an 

 attractive force in the following charm. 



A lump of resin (doka) from the marina tree is used in the 

 magical spell, "anting-anting" to draw the dead. The person per- 

 forming the charm makes set passes before his face with the hand 

 holding the resin, and the ghost thus summoned passes behind his 

 seat, but nobody in the room can see the ghost except the old men 

 and the person making anting-anting. 



The magnet, of foreign introduction, made a deep impression on 

 the Bagobo, who at once saw its possibilities as a tool for conjuring; 

 and those old men who can get hold of a magnet sometimes use 

 it in preference to doka, or as a substitute for doka, on account 

 of its wonderful power of attraction. 



There are a number of other charms where the suggestive 

 significance is less apparent, and where we do not know just how 

 the appeal to associative memory is made, such as the following: 



Every woman who clings conservatively to tradition puts in her 

 skirt a small patch, called t<t/»ui</, of a different design from the 

 body of the textile. To make room for this patch, the central strip 

 is woven a trifle shorter than the other two strips. The patch is 

 a charm against sickness. One of the Tallin girls told me that she 

 put in the patch because she was obliged tn lengthen tin 1 middle 

 strip in order to match the others; but, in reply to a question as 

 to why she had not made it longer, she said that she had purposely 

 woven it short in order to add the patch. finally, she explained 

 that the odd piece would keep her from being "very sick." 



The following is a building charm which is enticing by its rich 

 though vague suggestiveness. After the frame of a house is erected, 

 one of the skirts (panapisan) of the owner's wife is sometimes 



