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Time and methods of
attack Events following the battle Celebration of the victory The
capture of slaves The return of the warriors Ambushes and other
methods of warfare Peace
CHAPTER XIX.

Political organization: General principles of the administration of
justice: customary, proprietary, and liability laws
General considerations General principles The principle of material
substitution Right to a fair hearing Securing the defendant's good will
Foundations of Manóbo law Customary law Its natural basis Its
religious basis Proprietary laws and obligations Conception of property
rights Land and other property Laws of contract The law of debt
Interest, loans, and pledges Interest Loans and pledges Laws of liability
Liability arising from natural causes Liability arising from religious
causes Liability arising from magic causes The system of fines
CHAPTER XX.
Political organization: Customs regulating domestic relations and
family property; procedure for the attainment of justice
Family property Rules of inheritance Rules governing the relations of
the sexes Moral offenses Marriage contracts and payments Illegitimate
children Extent of authority of father and husband Residence of the
husband Crimes and their penalties Crimes The private seizure
Penalties for minor offenses Customary procedure Preliminaries to
arbitration General features of a greater arbitration Determination of
guilt By witnesses By oaths By the testimony of the accused By ordeals
The hot-water ordeal The diving ordeal The candle ordeal By
circumstantial evidence Enforcement of the sentence
CHAPTER XXI.
Political organization: Intertribal and other relations
Intertribal relations Interclan relations External commercial relations
Exploitation by Christian natives Exploitation by falsification
Defraudation by usury and excessive prices Exploitation by the system
of commutation Wheedling or the puának system Bartering
transactions General conditions of trading Internal commercial relations
Money and substitutes for it Prevailing Manóbo prices Weights and

measures Slave trade and slaves Slave trade Classes of slaves Delivery
and treatment of slaves

PART IV. RELIGION

CHAPTER XXII.
General principles of Manóbo religion and nature and classification of
Manobo deities
Introductory General principles of religion Sincerity of belief Basis of
religious belief Means of detecting supernatural evil Belief in an
hierarchy of beneficent and malignant deities Other tenets of Manobo
faith Spirit companions of man General character of the deities
Classification of deities and spirits Benevolent deities Gods of gore and
rage Malignant and dangerous spirits Agricultural goddesses Giant
spirits Gods of lust and consanguineous love Spirits of celestial
phenomena Other spirits Nature of the various divinities in detail, The
primary deities The secondary order of deities The gods of gore, and
kindred spirits
CHAPTER XXIII.
Maleficent spirits
The origin and nature of malignant demons Methods of frustrating their
evil designs Through priests By various material means By propitiation
The tagbánua, or local forest spirits Their characteristics and method of
living Definite localities tenanted by forest spirits Worship of the forest
spirits
CHAPTER XXIV.

Priests, their prerogatives and functions
The bailán or ordinary Manobo priests Their general character Their
prerogatives, Sincerity of the priests Their influence Their dress and
functions The bagáni, or priests of war and blood
CHAPTER XXV.
Ceremonial accessories and religious rites
General remarks The paraphernalia of the priest The religious shed and
the bailán's house Equipment for ceremonies Ceremonial decorations
Sacred images Ceremonial offerings Religious rites Classification
Method of performance The betel-nut tribute The offering of incense
Invocation Prophylactic fowl waving Blood lustration Lustration by
water
CHAPTER XXVI.
Sacrifices and war rites
The sacrifice of a pig Rites peculiar to the war priests The betel-nut
offering to the souls of the enemies Various forms of divination The
betel-nut cast Divination from the báguñg vine Divination from báya
squares, Invocation of the omen bird The tagbúsau's feast Human
sacrifice
CHAPTER XXVII.
Divination and omens
In general Miscellaneous casual omens Divination by dreams
Divination by geometrical figures The vine omen The rattan omen
Divination by suspension and other methods The suspension omen The
omen from eggs Divination by sacrificial appearances The blood omen
The neck omen The omen from the gall The omen from the liver The
omen from a fowl's intestinal appendix Ornithoscopy In general
Respect toward the omen bird Interpretation of the omen bird's call

Birds of evil omen
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Mythological and kindred beliefs
The creation of the world Celestial phenomena The rainbow Thunder
and lightning Eclipse of the moon Origin of the stars and the
explanation of sunset and sunrise The story of the Ikúgan, or tailed men,
and of the resettlement of the Agúsan Valley Giants Peculiar animal
beliefs The petrified craft and crew of Kagbubátañg Angó, the petrified
Manóbo
CHAPTER XXIX.
The great religious movement of 1908-1910
The extent of the movement Reported origin and character of the
revival Spread of the movement Its exterior character and general
features The principal tenets of the movement New order of deities
Observances prescribed by the founder Religious rites The real nature
of the movement and means used to carry