A native antidote that can counteract ailments, bewitchment, evil spirits, snakebites, etc.
ingredients of a native antidote: coconut oil from a one-eyed coconut mixed with crushed roots of a tree grown off the island. For snakebites, a mixture from a bone of a person or a small animal is applied to a small incision made over the bite. When the mixture falls off naturally, the patient is considered healed. Other ingredients: 1) horse manure, considered a purgative, 2) the white substance in chicken manure helps induce vomiting or abortions, and acts as an antispasmodic, 3) scrapings of the horn of a deer, or 4) scrapings of a beak of a sea turtle. It can only be prepared on Good Friday evening, otherwise it is powerless. As Easter approaches, the shaman keeps a sharp look out for one-eyed coconuts, which are very rare.
súma, súmang
Someone (mang-) treats someone (-en) with a native antidote.
Mangsoma si marāan so tawo a nasoliban.
Uncle treats a person who has been bewitched with a native antidote.
Sinoma na yaken.
He treated me with a native antidote.
manoma
One who medicines with soma.