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13. ‘“Ninting Lanjan.” Two swings are: constructed 
along the whole length of the house, and the swinging farce 
is gone through in another form. 
11. ‘Begiling Lantai,” “Wrapping with Lanta? sen 
floor laths. One of the Manangs personates a dead man. — 
He is vested with every article of Dyak dress and ornament, 
and lays himself down as dead, is then bound up in mats, and 
wrapped up with slender bambu laths tied together with 
rotans, and taken out of the house, and laid on the ground. 
He is supposed to be dead. After about an hour, the other 
Manangs loose him, and bring him to life; and as he recovers,. 
so the sick person is supposed to recover. 
These comprise the range of Dyak medical magic. The 
Betepas, the Berua, Berenchah, Betanam Pentik, are the forms 
most commonly used: the Bepancha, Betiang Garong and 
Munoh Antu are rarely resorted to; and the others hardly 
ever heard of now; but altogether they form an ascending 
scale of ‘‘pelian’’ functions rising in pretended medicinal 
virtue from the Betepas to Begiling Lantai; and they de- 
mand a corresponding scale of increasing fees, which are 
paid over to the Manang on the spot as soon as the perform- 
ance is Over. 
To qualify the practitioner to work this system of mixed 
symbolism and deceit, an act of public initiation is necessary. 
The aspirant for the office must first commit to memory a 
sufficient amount of traditional lore to take a share in the in- 
cantations in company with older Manangs; but before he 
can accomplish the more important parts, or catch the soul, 
in other words, do the more audacious tricks, he must be 
initiated by one or more of the following ceremonies :— 
The first is ‘‘ Besudi,’’ which seems to mean feeling, touch- 
ing. The neophyte sits in the verandah as a sick man would, 
and the other Manangs “belian’’ over him the whole night. 
By this he is supposed to become endowed with the power of 
touch to enable him to feel where and what are the maladies 
of the body, and so apply the requisite charms. It is the 
lowest grade of Manang, and obtainable by the cheapest 
fees. 
