Traditional Rituals Panibas

Dayak people believe that the earth is inhabited by creatures other than the visible like humans, animals and plants, there are also spirits are believed to dwell in the woods, in large trees, sacred places or even at home who vacated by ordinary inhabitants and this must be very close to the life around us.

Conscious or not we as God's most precious creatures, the existence of spirits, ghosts, jinn or whatever his name sometimes make us upset and uncomfortable, will generally result in a frightening vision of the object of such a delicate creature menyeruapai various forms menyerampak , as experienced by some siwwi No. SDN. 08 Village Nyarumkop who in recent days had possessed or possessed because of being bothered by spirits that are considered lost around their school. One of the students even to days still feel like a woman look beautiful creature with long hair in a vision, not only in schools stretcher he still saw the creature but to return to his house and still imagine dipenglihatannya the mysterious figure.

Such occurrences are common and so familiar we see in Private Television news in the country the school  mass trances experienced by the students were generally attacked the schoolgirl / girls. Other depths of other fish so the saying goes, the other regions have different ways of handling to repel spirits that often interfere with the students.

The Dayak Dayak Salako Singkawang or have a ritual known as the Indigenous

Panibas or exorcism rituals and spirits. The ritual is performed around the appearance of being considered often disturbing, and held in the afternoon should be completed before sunrise. Ritual led by a Panyangohot aided by several assistants to prepare the materials needed for the ritual. Panibas requires a lot of terms and ritual needs to be prepared. There are 31 kinds of materials are needed such as: frankincense, Manyang nut, female loggerhead complete with bowls, new red rooster feathers grow spurs, chickens geese, water tongkor, balu water, water 3 corners, 7 kinds of flowers, jengkol leaf, banana leaf, and assorted leaves favored by the ghost. Once all the requirements set new rituals can be performed.

Indigenous Ritual Panibas aims to drive Creatures Subtle or considered evil spirit who likes to annoy people. In all these rituals are considered spirits inhabiting sacred places are called to be warned again not to disturb people and they are symbolically given food that had been prepared in the form of blood panyangohot roosters were already mixed with materials that have been prepared, with the hope being offenses do not come back and disturb people.