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over seas to unknown lands and will all set to, and play at 
paddling a boat to follow it. But more generally the operation 
is made a more simple one. The manangs rush round the 
pagar api as hard as they can, singing a not unpleasant chant 
until one of them falls on the floor and remains motionless : 
the others sit down. The bystanders cover the motionless 
manang with a blanket and wait whilst his spirit is supposed 
to hie away to Hades or wherever the erring soul has been 
carried, and to bring it back. Presently he revives, looks 
vacantly about like a man just waking out of sleep, then he 
rises with his right hand clenched as if holding something. 
That hand contains the soul: and the manang proceeds to the 
patient and returns it to the body through the crown of the 
head muttering at the same time a few words of incantation. 
R. A. Soc., No. 57, 1910. 
