mag-, mamag-
To play this ring game.
Young people sit in a circle and clasp hands with their
fingers intertwined. Then, as they move their hands
back-and-forth, to the right and left, a ring is passed around
unseen from person to person while singing the song
Dali-dalien. Another person sits in the middle and tries
to guess whose hand the ring is in. If he/she guesses
correctly, the person who is caught holding the ring is
made to sing a song. If the person guesses wrong, then
he/she is the one who is made to sing a song. Older people
say that the song Dali-dalien can only be sung at a wake.
If it is sung at any other time, it's as if the singer is
summoning someone else to die so that there can be
another wake. This game was traditionally played at wakes
but is being lost now due to the arrival of electricity,
television, and videos.