Tomakdeg came, and after filling his mouth with rice, blew it out over the people, in the same way that the sickness was to be spit out.  Meanwhile Bebeka-an, armed with a wooden spoon, tried to dig up the floor and the people on it, “for that is the way she digs up sickness.”  Awa-an, a spirit of the water, came to inform the people that the spirit of a man recently drowned was just passing the house.  Everything else was abandoned for a few moments, while basi was poured out of the window, so that the dead might receive drink.

Two female spirits, Dalimayawan and Ginlawan, came at the same time and danced together, while they informed the people of their beauty and their expertness in dancing.  Suddenly they stopped, and said that Andayau, the mother of Lakgangan, was near by; then they instructed the host that he should wrap a gourd in a cloth and tell Andayau that it was her son’s head, and that he had been killed, because he had stolen carabao.  Scarcely had the two visitors departed, when the mother appeared, and being informed of her son’s death, she began to wail, “He is lost.  No one works the fields, where we planted calabasa.  Lakgangan is lost, he who has been killed.  Why did you go to steal carabao?  We have put Lakgangan in a hammock; we take him to Tomakdang.  The basi put out for Lakgangan is good.  He is lost whom they went to kill.  Lakgangan is lost.  We take him to Tomakdang.”

The song was interrupted by a head-hunting spirit, who demanded the heads of two visiting girls from Patok, but she finally went away satisfied with a piece of cloth which they gave her.  Blood and oil were sprinkled liberally over the ground and the gathering broken up for the morning.

All the forenoon, a small group of men and women, had been constructing a small covered bamboo raft, and had placed in it a sack of rice, which had been contributed by all the people. [157]

By four o’clock a large number of people had gathered in the yard near the house, and soon the spirit mats were spread on an old bedstead, and the mediums started again to summon the superior beings.  The first two to appear were Esteban from Cagayan and Maria from Spain.  They wore gay handkerchiefs about their shoulders, and when they danced, gave an imitation of the Spanish dances now seen among the Christianized natives of the coast.  It was quite evident that these foreign spirits were not popular with the people, and they were distinctly relieved when Mananako replaced them.  This spirit has the reputation of being a thief, and the guests had great sport preventing him from stealing the gifts intended for other spirits.