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ny. [319] _Diam_ recited during the _Sangasang_ ceremony in the town of Lumaba. [320] Chanted when the _Sangasang_ ceremony is made for sickness, or to take away a bad omen. [321] Spirit name for the earth. [322] See p. 172, note 4. [323] See p. 22, note 3. [324] Chanted when the ceremony is made to remove a bad sign. [325] An omen bird. [326] The true omen bird. [327] _Diam_ recited during the _Sangasang_ ceremony held to remove continued misfortunes. [328] Several native names which have no exact English equivalents are used here. [329] Woven bamboo used on ceilings. [330] This _diam_ was chanted during the _Ubaya_ ceremony in Villaviciosa, an Igorot town much influenced by Tinguian. The _Ubaya_ is also held in Lumaba, a Tinguian settlement. [331] No one is allowed to enter the town after the ceremony begins. [332] The most powerful of all spirits. [333] See p. 13. [334] See p. 13, note 1. [335] See p. 12. [336] A somewhat similar tale, current among the Dayak, will be found in _Roth_, The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo, Vol. I, p. 309 ff. [337] A small spirit house built during the _bawi_ ceremony. [338] A kind of grass. [339] Account concerning the guardian stones at Patok. [340] Peculiarly shaped stones in which Apdel, the guardian spirit of the village is supposed to reside. [341] A Tinguian town several miles south of Patok. [342] Told by the people of Lumaba, to account for a peculiar knifelike cut in one of the guardian stones outside the village. [343] Large knife. [344] Account of the securing of the guardian stones at Lagayan, Abra. [345] Compare with account of _La Gironiere_, Twenty Years in the Philippines, pp. 120 ff; also with _Cole_, _Philippine Journal of Science_, Vol. III, No. 4, 1908, pp. 210-11. [346] A ceremony held while the body is still in the house. [347] A grass which is eaten. [348] Taboo. A fire is kept burning at the grave and at the foot of the house ladder for ten nights following the burial. During this time the members of the family and near relatives must remain close to home. [349] A barrio of Patok. [350] A rope lasso. [351] An evil spirit. [352] People in the house with the dead and the relatives must observe the _kanyau_ (taboo) for ten days or they will meet the spirit of the dead person and it will harm them. [353] _Smilax vicaria_ Kunth. [354] The name by which the Tinguian desi
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