BELIEF CONCERNING THE SOUL 251 



ing in quick succession a piece of wood, a small stone, a 

 fragment of bone, a bit of iron, and a scrap of tin. Five 

 antohs, according to the Penihing interpretation, had been 

 eradicated and had fled. Afterward he extracted some 

 smaller ones in a similar manner but without stamping 

 his foot. The singing was then continued by another 

 man and a woman, in order to call the friendly antoh, 

 that the exercises might be happily concluded. 



The blian also tries to placate the malevolent antoh 

 by the gift of food. A Penihing informant said that the 

 evil one also eats the sacrificial blood, including that which 

 is smeared on the patient, and ultimately may leave satis- 

 fied. As soon as the souls see that the antoh has gone they 

 return and the victim recovers. The blian's remunera- 

 tion is usually one parang and a handful of rice. If 

 the person is very ill, a gong and a handful of rice is the 

 fee, but should the patient die the gong is returned. 

 The Duhoi (Ot-Danum) women occasionally put on 

 men's costume, and vice versa, to frighten the antoh that 

 causes illness and keep it at a distance. With the Katin- 

 gans a good antoh is believed to reside in the saliva ap- 

 plied by the blian for healing purposes to that part of a 

 body which is in pain. The saliva drives out the malevo- 

 lent antoh, or, in other words, cures the pain. 



