Following the burial the family lives in the house where the death occurred until a human sacrifice has been made. During this period they live very quietly, eat poor food, wear old clothing, and abstain from all amusements. If their wealth permits, they may shorten the period of mourning by making a special sacrifice, but in most cases the bereaved will wait until the yearly sacrifice when they will purchase a share in the victim and thus remove the taboo. Following the offering, the old house is abandoned and is allowed to fall to pieces for "the man has gone and his house must go also." The procedure is the same for women, and for children who have survived infancy. BELIEFS CONCERNING THE SOUL, SPIRITS, ORACLES, AND MAGIC. There is some variance, in different parts of the Bagobo area, in the beliefs concerning the spirits or souls of a man. In Cibolan each man and woman is supposed to have eight spirits or _gimokod_, which dwell in the head, the right and left hands and feet, and other parts not specified. At death these _gimokod_ part, four from the right side of the body, going up to a place called _palakalangit_, and four descending to a region known as _karonaronawan_.These places differ in no respects from the present home of the Bagobo, except that in the region above it is always day, and all useful plants grow in abundance. In these places the _gimokod_ are met by the spirits, Toglai and Tigyama, and by them are assigned to their future homes. If a man has been a _datu_ on earth, his spirits have like rank in the other life, but go to the same place as those of common people. The _gimokod_ of evil men are punished by being crowded into poor houses. These spirits may return to their old home for short periods, and talk with the _gimokod_ of the living through dreams, but they never return to dwell again on earth. In the districts to the west of Cibolan the general belief is that there are but two _gimokod_, one inhabiting the right side of the body, the other the left. That of the right side is good, while all evil deeds and inclinations come from the one dwelling on the left. It is a common thing when a child is ill to attach a chain bracelet to its right arm and to bid the good spirit not to depart, but to remain and restore the child to health. In Malilla it is believed that after death the spirit of the right side goes to a good place, while the one on the left remains to wander about on earth as a _buso_,[42] but this latter belief does not seem to be shared by the people of other districts. [42] See p. 107. Aside from the _gimokod_ the Bagobo believe that there exists a great company of powerful spirits who make their homes in the sky above, in the space beneath the world, or in the sea, in streams, cliffs, mountains, or trees. The following is the list related by Datu Tongkaling, a number of _mabalian_, and others supposed to have special knowledge concerning these superior beings.