The Subanu: Studies of a Sub-Visayan Mountain Folk of Mindanao, 第 1-3 卷

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Carnegie Institution, 1913 - 236 頁
 

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第 33 頁 - a short distance from Ansig's house, this being the regular place of sacrifice. Leaving the house of Ansig, the boy, Sacum, was seated upon the ground near the place of sacrifice. He was naked, but no other preparation was made with regard to his person. Upon a platform or bench of bamboo about
第 33 頁 - for the boy and took him to the house of Ansig, where arrangements were made for the sacrifice by calling on all who for any reason had need to appease the evil spirits to come and take part. Three days after the slave was brought to the house of Ansig the people met at Talon near the river
第 32 頁 - and that both he and his people were ready to tell all about it, as to the best of their belief they had committed no crime, but only followed out a religious custom practiced by themselves and their ancestors from time immemorial.
第 33 頁 - Datu Ansig, a man about sixty years of age, says that in his life he has attended or officiated at fifty human sacrifices, more or less, both among the Bagobos and the Bilanes; and that human sacrifice is also a practice among
第 33 頁 - and requested that he arrange a sacrifice to appease the spirits of their departed husbands, which were bothering them. Ansig called a meeting of the old men at which were present, besides himself, Bagobos Oling, Pandaya, and Ansing, and these four decided that, as they had not had a sacrifice since the great drought (about three years ago), and that since that
第 32 頁 - seven stars, three at right angles to the other four, are seen in the heavens to the east at seven o'clock in the evening, which is said to occur once each year, during the first part of
第 27 頁 - Polyandry is occasionally resorted to where men are too poor to provide the laxa (dowry) required to secure a wife, and two of them join in the purchase of one woman.
第 33 頁 - person. Upon a platform or bench of bamboo about two feet high and a foot or two square was placed a small basket or receptacle made of the bark of the

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