When all is ready, a medium seats herself by the mat, dips oil from a shallow dish with a small head-axe, and lets it drip onto the ground; then she does the same with basi, and finally strokes a rooster which lies beside the jar, all the while reciting the proper diam.

Taking the spirit shield, which belongs in the dwelling, she puts oil at each corner, and then touches the heads of all the family with it.  Beads and betel-leaf are added, and the shield is carried to the house, where it is again fastened to the wall, as a testimony to all passing spirits that the ceremony has been made, and food provided for them.

The time has now arrived for the spirits to appear.  Seating herself beside the mat, the medium strikes on a plate with her shells or a piece of lead, and then starts her song.  She rubs her hands together with a revolving motion, swings her arms, and begins to tremble from head to foot.  Suddenly she is possessed by a spirit, and under his direction holds oil to the nostrils of the host, and beats him with a small whip of braided betel-leaf.  This done, she drinks for the spirit, and it departs.  Again she sings, and again she is possessed.  One spirit takes the rooster, and with its wings cleans up the rubbish in the balaua and in the yard, empties it in a tray, and orders it taken from the village.  In the same way all sickness and misfortune will be removed from the settlement.

Several spirits follow, and as the morning wears on, the medium becomes more and more intense.  The muscles of her neck and the veins of her forehead stand out like cords, while perspiration streams from her bod.  Taking a shield and head-axe in her hand, she does a sort of muscle dance, then goes to each member of the family, and strikes the weapons together over their heads; from them she goes to the doors and windows, and strikes at them with the axe.  Finally she returns to the mat, balances a cup of basi on the weapon, and causes the host to drink.  Another attack on the doors follows, and then in exhaustion she sinks beside the mat.  After a short rest, she dips beads in oil, and with them touches the heads of the family.  The musicians strike up a lively tattoo at this point, and again seizing her weapons, the medium dances in front of the spirit shield.  Going to the rooster on the mat, she cuts off a part of its comb, and presses the bloody fowl against the back or leg of each person in the room.  The spirit drinks and disappears.

The next visitor dances with the host, and then wrestles with him, but upon getting the worst of the match takes leave.  As in the Tangpap, large number of minor beings call for a moment or two and pass on.  One spirit places the family beneath a blanket, cuts a coconut in two above their heads, and first allows the water to run over them; then finally the halves are allowed to drop.  She waves burning rice-straw above them, and removes the blanket.  It is explained that the water washes all evil away, and that as the shells fall from the family, so will sickness leave them.  Evil spirits are afraid of the fire, and leave when the burning rice-straw is waved about the blanket.