ma-
For a person to become ill, or for his/her illness to become worse,
because of going to visit a home which still has a corpse laid out in
it.
Some believe that once the deceased is buried, then it is safe to go to the house
without being afraid of becoming sick. They also say that a person
can also get sick simply if they happen to meet someone who has
just come from the house or from attending the funeral. If this
happens, scrapings of the bed or table which the corpse was laid on,
or flowers from the funeral, are burned and the smoke wafted
around the body of the sick person and inhaled in order for him/her
to get better.
Yading mga taw ang indi agpaning ong napatayan
mintras indi pa galbeng, tenged gengeldan ang
malemat.
Many people are not going to the house of the deceased
while he's not yet buried, because they are afraid they
will
become
sick
from
being
there.
Kiminasag tang sÿt ong tōdo tenged naningo si ong
napatayan, nalemato si.
The pain in my knee has become worse because I went again to the
house of the bereaved, I got
worse
from
doing
that.