d them to do always like that. When some one
is ill whom they go to cure, they prepare correctly.
34 [312]
The spirit who lives in Dadaya [313] lies in bed; he looks at his
_igam_ [314] and they are dull. He looks again, "Why are my _igam_
dull? Ala, let us go to Sudipan where the Tinguian live and let us take
our _igam_, so that some one may make them bright again." After that
they laid them (the _igam_) on the house of the Ipogau [315] and they
are all sick who live in that house. Kaboniyan [316] looked down on
them. "Ala, I shall go down to the Ipogau." He truly went down to them,
"What is the matter with you?" "We are all sick who live in the same
place," said those sick ones. "That is true, and the cause of your
sickness is that they (the spirits) laid down their _igam_ on you. It
is best that you make _Pala-an_, since you have received their _igam_,
for that is the cause of your illness." After that they made _Pala-an_
and they recovered from their sickness, those who lived in the same
place. (Here the medium calls the spirits of Dadaya by name and then
continues.) "Now those who live in the same place make bright again
those _igam_ which you left in their house. Make them well again,
if you please."
35 [317]
Those who live in the same town go to raid--to take heads. After
they arrive, those who live in the same town, "We go and dance with
the heads," said the people who live in the same town, "because they
make a celebration, those who went to kill." "When the sun goes down,
you come to join us," said the mother and baby (to her husband who
goes to the celebration). After that the sun truly went down; she
went truly to join her husband; after that they were not (there),
the mother and the baby (i.e., when the father arrived where they
had agreed to meet, the mother and child were not there).
He saw their hats lying on the ground. He looked down; the mother and
the baby were in (the ground), which ground swallowed them. "Why (are)
the mother and the baby in the ground? How can I get them?" When he
raises the mother and the baby, they go (back) into the ground. After
that Kaboniyan above, looking down (said), "What can you do? The
spirits of Ibal in Daem are the cause of their trouble. It is better
that you go to the home of your parents-in-law, and you go and prepare
the things needed in _Ibal_ [318]," said Kaboniyan.
They went truly and prepared; after that they brought (the things)
to the g
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