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Updated: June 26, 2025
As already noted, the people of Malilla are inclined to identify the gimokod of the left side with this evil class. XV. Tagamaling. Evil spirits who dwell in big trees. XVI. Tigbanua. Ill disposed beings inhabiting rocks and cliffs in the mountains. These last two classes are frequently confused with the buso. In addition to these, the old men of Malilla gave the following: 1. Tagareso.
Then the Buso-man replied sadly, "I used to have a wife named Moglung, who was the best of all the bia; but when I went looking for the Malaki Tuangun, that other Bia made me dizzy, and gave me betel, and combed my hair. Then she was my wife for a little while. But I have killed her, and become a buso, and I want to kill all the people in the world."
These are placed on the platform and the buso are exhorted to come and accept them. Good offerings are never made to this class of spirits, for "they do not expect to be treated like the more powerful."
"You had better lie down on my mat here, and go to sleep," advised the Pandita. While the Buso slept, the Pandita rubbed his joints with betel-nut; and when he woke up, he was a malaki again. Then the Pandita talked to him, and said, "Only a few days ago, the Moglung passed here on her way to her brother's home in heaven. She went by a bad road, for she would have to mount the steep rock-terraces.
In the night, while her husband was away, the Buso came, and tried to pass himself off as her husband, saying, "You see I am back. I got no fish, because I was afraid in the river." Then the Buso-man made a great fire, and sat down by it. But the woman did not believe that it was her husband.
But after they had taken no food for several days, the man and the woman began to grow thin and weak. Still they did not try to get food, because they wanted only to gratify their passion for each other. At last both of them got very skinny, and finally they died. Folk-Lore of the Buso How to See the Buso The Buso live in the great branching trees and in the graveyard.
The tears of all the buso ran down like blood; they wept streams and streams of tears that all flowed together, forming a deep lake, red in color. Then Tuglay rubbed the chewed betel on the great Buso's throat. One pass only he made with the isse, and the Buso's head was severed from his body.
Some Bagobo have been known to kill the cat; but they always got sick afterwards. How a Dog Scared the Buso The Tigbanua' are the worst of all the Buso; they want to be eating human flesh all the time. They live in great forests, in the pananag-tree, in the magbo-tree, in the baliti-tree, and in the liwaan-tree. One day a man went out to hunt, and he took his dog with him.
The family altar seen in many Bagobo houses. Similar shrines are sometimes put up under trees or by a mountain-stream. Red peppers and a piece or two of lemon laid under the house are effective in keeping Buso away from that vicinity; and the use of the same charm here against the S'iring suggests that the S'iring may not be separated by a very sharp line from the Buso who crowd the forests.
Then Buso went to the Moon, and asked her where all the people were to be found. "Oh, you will not find a living person on the earth!" replied the Moon. "Everybody in the world is dead." "Good!" thought Buso. "To-morrow I shall have a fine meal of them." Buso never eats living flesh, only dead bodies.
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