tigers, bears, elephants and other dangerous animals, as well as supernatural beings. These spiritual creatures cause disease, accidents and other misfortunes. They are unpredictable and malicious, they can always attack for no reason, although certain violations increase the likelihood of such attacks. The only protection against a mara` is another mara` that has become friendly to a person or group of people. This spirit is called (or ), a kind of protector or familiar spirit from the spiritual world, which can be summoned to help when troubles occurred. These are believed to be able to help to protect people from aggressive or bad diseases that are usually regarded as spiritual manifestations. There are also good spirits that help at work, in hunting, and in personal life. The spirits are so timid that most ceremonies are held in the dark of the night. It is believed that the spirits are attracted to aromatic perfumes and beauty, so the ritual areas are decorated with flowers and aromatic leaves. By singing and dancing, people try to reassure the spirits that they are happy. Ceremonies, which usually last two to six nights, are held only to cure illnesses associated with pain or loss of spiritual health of an individual or community as a whole. Everyone is afraid of thunder, people make a "blood sacrifice" to calm the storm. These victims are individual, not collective. Humans, most animals and other creatures, according to Senoi beliefs, have several separate "souls". In humans, one soul, the head-soul is localised in the crown of the head on the turf of the hair and the other, heart/blood soul resides in the sternum, with both are able to leave the body when a person is sleeping or in a trance and ultimately death. There are also many other souls such as the eye-soul in the pupil of the eye and the shadow-soul. Therefore, dreams are considered very important, because they establish contact with the supernatural world. They can "warn" about certain events. People believe that they have their own spirits in the afterlife, with whom they communicate in a dream or in a trance. In this way, they can get help in diagnosing and treating diseases caused by evil spirits. Women usually avoid such spiritual connection, because the state of trance is very exhausting for a man; the exception is midwives. Few people have the ability to deal with supernatural