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When Itneg[52] go to hunt or have to sleep anywhere that spirits can get them it is good to use sobosob[53] or banal[51] under them for a mat.
Two men were in the mountains and had no mats to sleep on, so they pulled much sobosob and put it under them. That night the evil spirits came to get them but did not come very near. The men heard them say that they wanted to get them, but that it was bad for them if they got near the sobosob, so they left them alone.
(Sobosob and banal are sometimes put with the plow iron over a new grave as an added protection.) Page 183