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She is sent by her mother to cause lameness to people who pass. A man who falls victim to her magic is only cured when the girl instructs him how to make the Bawi ceremony. The spirit Kaboniyan instructs a sick man to make offerings at the guardian stones. He does as bidden and becomes well.
The origin of the ceremony is ascribed to a woman of ancient times, named Bagutayka, who, lacking certain organs, appears as an outcast. She at first caused passers-by to have trouble with their feet and limbs, but later taught them how to effect a cure by building the bawi and performing the ceremony.
The sick man said to her, "How do we make bawi, for we have never heard about that?" Bagan said, "Bring me a white cloth, a basket of rice, some thread, a betel-nut, coconut, a rooster, and toknang." They brought all of these, and Bagan took them. Then they built a bawi in the garden and planted the sucker by it.
They broke the coconut shell, killed the rooster, and took his feathers to put in the coconut husk, and they broke the coconut meat. They made sablau near the bawi and put the coconut meat in it. When they had done this, the man who was sick was as good as if he had not been sick, he could walk just as before. This is the way the Tinguian people learned to make bawi.
In a short time a man passed by her; after that he was sick in his knees and did not walk, he only lived in his house, and could not move his hands or feet. His parents were troubled to find medicine for him, for none they found did him good. They used all the medicine that they knew. Then Bagan went to see him in his house and told him to make bawi.
In some instances betel-nut prepared for chewing takes the place of the fowl; rice-stalks hang from the sides of the basket, and bits of pine are added "to make bright and clear." All of this is rubbed on the patient's head, while the medium recites the diam. Bawi, also called Sinaba-an and Ababong. When such a structure is built or repaired, it is accompanied by a ceremony of the same name.
She is sent by her mother to cause lameness to people who pass. A man who falls victim to her magic is only cured when the girl instructs him how to make the Bawi ceremony. The spirit Kaboniyan instructs a sick man to make offerings at the guardian stones. He does as bidden and becomes well.
He causes people to have sore feet, and only relieves them, when offerings are made to him in the saloko or bawi. He lives in the wooded hill, but quickly learns of a death, and appears at the open grave. Unless he is bought off with an offering, the blood of a small pig, he is almost certain to make away with the body, or cause a great sickness to visit the village.
In Manabo a piece of banana bark is taken from one of the plantings beside a bawi; and, after being washed in the water, is applied to the affected limb. The final act is to take a coconut husk, stick feathers in its sides, and hang it beside the bawi as a sign to all that the ceremony has been held. No spirits are summoned at this time, neither is there singing or dancing. Bakid.
Bakay, one of the busau, is said to be the owner of the deer and pig and is held in considerable esteem by the people of the Padada region, but he is not recognized by the Tagkogon branch of the tribe. Another spirit, Bawi, who owns the rice, is in great favor with the Padada people, but is unknown to the latter group. Flau is the spirit of an unborn child whose mother died in pregnancy.
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