Yakan - sāg

sāg

kasāgan, sināgan

To have (spirit induced) nausea and vomiting.

It is believed to be caused by demons. Children are hit by it more often than adults. If children have eaten something or else want to eat something but don’t get it they are likely to be kasāgan. The cure for it is an incantation called sāg-sāg. The medicine for it is crushed pepper leaf soaked in water and drunk.

Kasāgan ku ensini'.

I vomited earlier.

Sināgan ku we' kenna.

I vomited because of the fish.

ebburan (ng)uta'

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sāg-sāg

White magic treatment, treatment with incantations for spirit induced nausea and vomiting.

Ta'u iye nawal sāg-sāg.

He knows how to treat with sāg-sāg incantations.

N-, mag-

-an

To treat s.o. with white magic for vomiting.

Sināg-sāgan nakanakin pegge' hatu kasāgan.

The child is treated with white magic because perhaps he has spirit induced nausea and vomiting.

Magsāg-sāg la'i ka'am diyalem.

Do the sāg-sāg treatment there inside.

Pī kew makatawal si iye, ta'u iye nāg-nāg.

Go and request white magic treatment from him; he knows how to treat with sāg-sāg.

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