A group of worker spirits, to which ritual prayers are addressed.
Some are blacksmiths and live in Angādel, a place mentioned only in the oral literature; others are hunters, anup, and live in downriver region, lāgud. Along with guard spirits, liblibāyan, ritual prayers always begin by calling worker spirits. They inflict headache, toothache and nosebleed, see Appendix 26, Lexical Substitutions. Some bagāwah di pinya guard pineapple fruits, pinya, and inflict those who steal the fruits with a severe allergy, butul. The affliction is removed by persuasion during a time when a ritualist, mumbā'i, seeks information as to the inflicting spirit while saying a breathy prayer, hapud 2a, or when a prayer to worker spirits is recited, bagāwah 2, at which time rice beer is offered as an appeasement. No animal or chicken sacrifices are made to them. Some of them, along with guard spirits, guard rice beer. Before closing a wine jar after drinking rice beer for the first time after it is made, a little beer is offered to these spirits, along with guard spirits, and prayers are offered to them by a ritualist.