Yang Ming-hui, an Atayal teacher at the Chingmei Primary School in Hsiulin Rural Township who has been filming a documentary on Labay, explains that in fact an Atayal shaman is really more like a medium. She can only wait passively for people to come with questions, and then pass their inquiries on to the ancestral souls.
曾在拉拜．多鉻身邊拍了三年紀錄片的秀林鄉景美國小老師、泰雅族的楊明輝說，泰雅族的巫師其實應該說是占卜師，只能被動地等人來問問題，再向祖靈詢問。