98 BARTON. 



near by, dances before the door and then proceeds around the granary. 

 Holding the weapon in both hands, he brandishes it with an upward 

 and downward wave-like motion as he goes. His black eyes shine; he 

 has the appearance and glance of a madman. He chants: 



Harass (or, bewitch; torture) the enemies, and the rice disease, and the 

 sorcerers (those who do evil through their bad ceremonies) and the pests." 



The feasters cry out in the same and similar phrases and with the 

 ever present prayer that the spirits increase the rice. The procession is 

 repeated two, four, six, or eight times. At the end of each procession 

 the actor executes a little dance- before the pig, and after two or three 

 threatening gestures throws the spear across the pig, sticking it in the 

 ground a meter or so beyond. The spear is thrown from a distance of 

 three to five meters as near as possible to the pig without injuring him. 

 At the same time rice wine is poured on the pig, accompanied by the 

 usual phrases. (See PI. V, fig. 2.) 



The Koliaban, or Coverer.'^ Monl-oliahan. — A blanket dance is the 

 ceremony of this spirit. (See PI. VI, fig. 1.) The dancer is believed 

 to be possessed. The dance is very graceful, and resembles one I have 

 seen performed by Bagnen and Besao Igorots in Lepanto. The people 

 in\ite and beseech the l-oliaban in the usual terms and in addition make 

 the following plea : 



Cover up (smother) thou the lack of rice, the hungry time, the rice disease," 

 and the pest; but do not cover up the chickens, the pigs, and the rice. Cover 

 up thou the sorcerers, the persons who do evil through bad feasts, and the persons 

 who cause pests.*" 



Ceremonial hilling of the pig. Monwiwik. — The pole is removed from 

 between the legs of the pig, which is then turned with its head to the 

 east, for pigs are usually ceremonially killed facing the east. One man 

 holds the legs so that the animal can not struggle; the person who is 

 acting as cook cuts through the skin just below the sternum and pushes 

 into the chest of the helpless animal a runo stalk, loiivik, about a foot 



" Hango hangotimo hai binuhul utyai hiba utyai mangidai utyai balandag. 

 This is probably only a fragment of what lie chants. It is all I have obtained 

 as yet. 



'^ Cf. the 8a-nikiib rang buni of the Malays. The World Coverer, Malay Magic, 

 p. 94. 



^° The disease of the rice, not the sickness caused by the new rice as described 

 by Jenks. The Bontok Igorot, Ethnological Survey PubUcatioiis. Manila (1905) 

 1, 107. 



°'' Koliaban- mo hai bitel, hai duian, hai hiba ya hai balangdan; mu oMm ko- 

 liaban hai manok utyai bahui utyai page. Koliabanmo hai mangidut, hai manong- 

 dong, utyai mondayapat. 



