180 PEOPLES OF THE PHILIPPINES 
logical in these matters and feels that an object that has 
once been offered and has had its soul put at the disposal 
of an anito is different from other objects. The Bagobo, 
for instance, who has offered a sword, girds this on 
again and is free to use it; but he cannot, without 
great danger of sickness or ill luck from the spirits, sell 
this sword or allow it to pass into the hands of others. 
The Bagobo elso attribute two souls to human beings, 
each inhabiting cne side of the body. ‘The left soul 
frequently leaves the body to roam, and dreams are 
nothing but its experiences on these wanderings. After 
death it becomes one of the class of evil spirits known as 
buso, who bring sickness and death to human beings. 
The right hand soul is the protector and companion 
of the body, which it never leaves except sometimes to 
lie on the ground as the shadow falling on the right side 
of the person. When it separates itself from its fleshly 
container, death ensues; but the soul is immortal and 
goes to join its ancestors and companions in the great 
underground country of the dead. 
Sacrifice and Prayer. Sacrifice and prayer are the 
two forms of ritual in which the Filipino chiefly expresses 
his religion. The intimate connection between animal 
sacrifice and the consumption of flesh has already been 
mentioned: every sacrifice means a feast. So strong is 
this association that wherever the Filipino has remained 
pagan he has even reversed the connection, and does not 
think of slaughtering an animal for food except on the 
occasion of some ceremony. He feels exactly the same 
way about his intoxicating liquor of rice or sugar cane. 
Worship of any consequence being impossible without. 
the offering of this to the gods, drinking and drunken- 
ness have acquired a wholly religious flavor, and are 
never indulged in on profane occasions or for mere — 
pleasure,—at any rate among the tribes that have kept. 
