Lawit
Lawit is a ceremony celebrated by the Benguet Kankanay to cause the return of the soul of a living person which has wandered away. One of the Kibungan mambunong said:
Mo īitauum ay wadaka’s adaway sin būuina, ifūgau, sīa amona aydin ababīikna tinaymana.
If a person dreams that he is far away from his house, he knows that his soul has left him.
The mambunong takes a plate of rice from which tapuy has been fermented and holds it in one hand, while holding a chicken in the other. He turns his face toward the sky and says the following:
Sika ababīikna ——, omalika, mo sinoi inmoyan, sinan būuitaka, tan inayan nanbūui di kakading. Mo itūum īsa matīka, ut ungay adīka mangan sinan ilagbūam.
You, the soul of ——, come back if you have wandered away from our home, because it is dreadful to live in the home of the souls of the dead. If you stay there you will die, and you will not eat what you have earned.
The lawit is celebrated in Kibungan, Kapangan, Bacun, and Ampusungan; but I do not know whether or not it is celebrated in any other Kankanay towns. It corresponds to the Nabaloi tawal and to the Bontoc ofat.