Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1913 — Liars Tagged Here. [ARTICLE]

Liars Tagged Here.

Dyaks, natives of Borneo, are extremely truthful. So disgraceful, indeed, do -the Dyaks consider the deceiving of others by an untruth that such is handpd down to posterity by a curious custom. They heap up a pile of branches of trees In memory of the man who has uttered a great lie, so that the future generations ‘ may know of his wickedness and take warning from it. The persons deceived start the tugong bula —the liar’s mound — by heaping up a large number of branches in some conspicuous spot by the side of the path from one village to another. Every passerby contributes to ft and at the same time reviles the memory of the man who told the lie. The Dyaks consider the addition to any tugong bula they may pass a sacred duty, the omission of which will meet with supernatural punishment