[109] In Ilocos Sur a ceremony which lifts the ban off the relatives is held about five days after the funeral.  Three months later, the blood and oil are applied to the spouse, who is then released from all restrictions.  In San Juan and Lakub, a ceremony known as Kilyas is held five days after the funeral.  The anointing is done as described above, and then the medium drops a ball of rice under the house, saying, “Go away sickness and death, do not come to our relatives.”  When she has finished, drums are brought out, all the relatives dance and “forget the sorrow,” and are then released from all taboos.  The Layog is celebrated as in the valley towns.

[110] Also known as Waxi in San Juan, and Bagongon in Sallapadin.  In the latter village, as well as in Manabo and Ba-ak, this ceremony occurs a few days after the funeral.

[111] This is known as Apapayag or Inapapayag (p. 309).

[112] The foregoing ceremonies follow the death of any adult, male or female, but not of newborn children.  If the first-born dies in infancy, it is buried in the middle of the night when no one can see the corpse, otherwise other babies will die.  The parents don old garments, and are barred from leaving the town or engaging in pastimes, until the ten-day period has passed.  No fire is built at the grave, nor are offerings placed over it.  When some one else is holding a Layog, the parents may join them “to relieve their sorrow and show respect for the dead.”

[113] A folk-tale recorded in this town gives quite a different idea of the abode of the spirits (Traditions of the Tinguian, this volume, No. 1, p. 185; also p. 28, note 2).

[114] Functions mentales dans les societes inferieures (Paris, 1910).

[115] See Traditions of the Tinguian, this volume, No. 1, pp. 180-182

[116] For a full discussion of this subject, see Cole, Relations between the Living and the Dead (Am.  Jour. of Sociology, Vol.  XXI, No. 5, 1916, pp. 610, et seq.).

[117] See Traditions of the Tinguian, this volume, No. 1, p. 185.

[118] In Manabo it is said that there are five sons, who reside in the spirit houses known as tangpap, alalot, and pungkew.

[119] The people of Manabo say, he resides in the spirit-structures known as balaua, sogayab, batog,and balag (cf. pp. 308, et seq.)

[120] Among the Ifugao, Kabunian is the lowest of the three layers which make up the heavens (Beyer, Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the Philippines, Phil.  Jour. of Science, Vol. viii, No. 2, 1913, p. 99).

[121] Traditions of the Tinguian, this volume, No. 1, p. 15.

[122] Traditions of the Tinguian, this volume.  No. 1, p. 32.

[123] The medium is also sometimes called manganito.