Gomogopos, who causes stomach troubles, came, and after dancing before the rice-mortar, demanded that a small pig be laid before the tangpap.  Scarcely had the animal been deposited, when the spirit seized a head-axe and cut it in two at one blow.  Then he dipped the weapon in its blood and applied it to the stomach of each member of the family.  “The pig is his pay, and now he takes away his kind of sickness.”

The second medium secured a live rooster, and using its wings as a brush, she took up the blood and the two halves of the pig, and put them in the tangpap.  “The rooster is the spirits’ brush, and when the dirt In front of the tangpap is cleaned up, then the people will be clean and well inside their bodies.”  At the command of the medium, the husband of the patient went to the opposite side of the tangpap; then she threw a bundle of rice over the structure to him.  He caught it, and immediately threw it back.  This was repeated six times, but on the seventh the bundle lighted on the roof, where it was allowed to remain.  “The spirit threw away the lives of the people, but the man returned them.  The bundle is now on the tangpap, so now the people’s lives will remain safe.”

An unnamed spirit was next to appear, and at his command the fore part of the pig was stood upright in the winnower, and a stick was placed in each nostril.  These were seized by the spirit, who pumped them up and down, then withdrew them, and stroked each member of the family, while he chanted, “I did this to your lives, so now I must do it to you.”

Saking, a lame spirit, called for one of the pig’s legs, and with it rubbed the limbs of each member of the family, “so that they will not become ill in their legs.”

One of the mediums now became possessed by Mangamian, who carried a feather which he used as a fighting knife.  The onlookers seized similar weapons and defended themselves, or drove the spirit away by threatening him with a small dog.  A fire had been built near the tangpap, and from time to time the spirit would rush up to this, thrust his feather into the flames, and then put it into his mouth.  Later it was explained, “He is an evil spirit who tries to kill people.  The feather is his bolo.  He is like a blacksmith, and when his knife gets dull, he puts it in the fire, then puts it in his mouth to wet it, so as to make it ring.”  Three spirits now appeared in quick succession, and discussed with the old men the advisability of adopting the Americans [156] as Ipogau.  Finally the leader Ilabdangan called them to the mat before him and told them their names, and also recited a list of their relations.  Then, filling a coconut shell with basi, he drank half and presented the shell to each candidate, who had to drain it to the last drop.  A circle was formed, and for the balance of the afternoon the new members of the tribe had to dance tadek with their relations.