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The ability to foretell future events by the flight or calls of birds, actions of animals, by the condition of the liver and gall of sacrificed pigs, or by the movements of certain articles under the questioning of a medium, is an undoubted fact in this society. A small bird known as labeg, is the messenger of the spirits, who control the Bakid and Sangásang ceremonies.
If it flies across their path from right to left, all is well; but if it comes from the left, they must return home, or trouble will befall the party. The spirits of Sangásang make use of other birds and animals to warn the builders of a house, if the location selected does not please them.
The guests return to their homes, and for two or three days following are barred from entering the new dwelling. During this period the family must remain indoors. Sangásang. Sangásang is often so similar to the Bakid, that one description might cover both. This is particularly true, if it is held to remove a bad sign.
The spirits of Ibal, who live in Daem, are responsible for most sickness among children, but they are easily appeased with blood and rice. The Ibal ceremony is held for them. Ináwen is a pregnant female spirit, who lives in the sea, and who demands the blood of a chicken mixed with rice to satisfy her capricious appetite. She also attends the Sangásang.
When he reaches the agreed spot, he finds only their hats; he looks down and sees them in the ground. He tries in vain to get them out. The spirit Kaboniyan instructs him to perform the Ibal ceremony. He does so and receives his wife and child. The spirit Ináwen, who lives in the sea, sends her servants to spread sickness. They kill many people who fail to make the Sangásang ceremony.
You must find a rooster with long tail and spurs; you must mix its blood with rice, and put it in the river at dawn when no one can see you, The man makes Sangásang the next night, and puts the blood, mixed with rice, in a well dug by the river, so that the spirits may take it to their mistress.
It is better that you go to the home of your parents-in-law, and you go and prepare the things needed in Ibal ," said Kaboniyan. After that the mother and child came out of the ground. After that they got well because they came up the mother and the baby. The spirits are going. They arrive and begin their work, and if the people do not make Sangásang many will die.
In Lumaba and nearby villages, unpleasant dreams, or a bad disposition are overcome by a ceremony called Sangásang; but, as this varies somewhat from the others, it is given in detail. The medium, who is summoned for this event, calls for oil and a rooster with long spurs. When these are brought, she strokes the fowl with the oil, and chants the following diam.
He goes to another, and the dogs bark so that the people cannot sleep. A man opens the door, to learn the cause of the barking, and he sees a man, fat and tall, with nine heads, and he carries many kinds of cakes. The man says, 'Now take these cakes, and if you do not make Sangásang for my mistress, at the river, you shall die.
"What is the matter with you, you say, and there is nothing which we do not do for our sickness, and we are never cured," said those Ipogau. And Kaboniyan answered, "How can you become cured of your sickness when you have a bad sign for that which you made your house? The reason of your sickness is because you do not make Sangásang.
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