n you sleep out doors, so the spirits can not spit on you,
for if they do, you will die.

One man who had lost his carabao went to the mountains to find; and at
night he did not find, so he lay down near the path to sleep. He did
not put any branches near his head, and in the night an evil spirit
came and wanted to eat him; but when the spirit saw that he had the
skin disease, he did not care to eat, so he spit on him. The man got
up and went home, but soon he got sick and died.

53

When Itneg [354] go to hunt or have to sleep anywhere that spirits
can get them it is good to use _sobosob_ [355] or _banal_ under them
for a mat.

Two men were in the mountains and had no mats to sleep on, so they
pulled much _sobosob_ and put it under them. That night the evil
spirits came to get them but did not come very near. The men heard
them say that they wanted to get them, but that it was bad for them
if they got near the _sobosob_, so they left them alone.

(_Sobosob_ and _banal_ are sometimes put with the plow iron over a
new grave as an added protection.)

54

In the first time, three Tinguian went to hunt. At night they lay down
to sleep and one of them, who had a _kambaya_, [356] had not gone to
sleep when two spirits came near and saw him under the blanket. One
turned to the other and said, "Here we have something to eat, for
here is a little pig." Then that man took the blanket from the other
man and put his blanket in its place, and the spirits came and ate
that man. So we know it is bad to use that kind of blanket when you
go where the spirits can get.

55

A man and woman had a beautiful daughter whom they always kept in the
house. [357] One day while they were away in the fields, the girl went
outside to pound rice. While she pounded, the spirit Bayon who lives
in the sky came to see her. He was like a fresh breeze. Then the girl
was like a person asleep, for she could not see nor hear. When she
awoke in the sky, she dropped her rice pounder so that it fell near
her home and then the people knew she was above. Bayon changed her
two breasts into one large one, which he placed in the middle of her
chest. When her parents made _Sayang_, the mediums called Bayon and
his wife to come. They still come when some one calls them in the
_Sayang_. The woman's name is Lokadya.

56

In the first times men went to the mountains to hunt deer and hogs. One
man kept his dog in the open land outside of t