358 THROUGH CENTRAL BORNEO 



When a large tree falls no work is done for seven days. 

 House building must cease and sacrificial offerings of 

 pork and tuak are made to a good antoh to induce him 

 to deal with the evil one that caused the mishap. 



Travellers who encounter omen birds, or hear the cry 

 of a rusa at noon, or similar omens, camp for three days 

 and then proceed to the nearest kampong to buy fowl, a 

 pig, and eggs, in order to sacrifice not only to the bird or 

 animal that gave the omen, but also to the good antoh 

 which sent it. Seven days afterward the journey is 

 continued. 



When a plandok (mouse-deer) appears underneath a 

 house the owner is sure to die unless proper remedies are 

 employed. If people succeed in catching the animal it is 

 not killed, but smeared all over with cocoanut oil. Then 

 they kill a dog, take its blood, which is mixed with rice 

 and thrown to the plandok; also the blood of a fowl, with 

 the same addition, is offered. The plandok's Iiao is 

 given this to eat in order that he may not cause the occu- 

 pant of the house to die; the animal is then carried into 

 the utan, about an hour's walk, and set free. Three days 

 afterward they sacrifice a pig, the blood of which, with the 

 usual admixture, is given to the bad antoh who sent the 

 plandok, with entreaties not to kill the man. For seven 

 days the head of the house stays in the kampong, being 

 free to bathe in the river and walk about, but he must not 

 go outside the settlement. 



The red monkey is an attendant of a bad antoh, and 

 if he enters a house or comes on the roof or underneath 

 the house it is considered very unfortunate. There is no 



