From the practice of Kinaray-a tribe and most of the lowlanders of Western Panay. It was called pasakaan kan dungan. A sickly child was considered by the tribe's shaman as a child who have a weak soul. In order to boost his soul force he must undergo the ritual called pagtuob or embedding a catalyst to strengthen the weak soul. The folks believed that in doing so, the child could not easily succumbed to the attack of elemental spirits and sorcery.
The shaman is responsible to select the natural element that will be fit to boost the soul force of a person.
As told by my mother the element that was use for the ritual for writer's soul force was the feather of a hawk.
It was told that incantation was very essential, for the elements will not be effective if the divine verbos was not embedded to the soul. After the ritual was made, it was told that there was no serious ailments that had occurred to my childhood days up to this time.
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