Elderly Thinking
Bestow are Filipino erstwhile beliefs that are believed by our strain agreed on from stretch to stretch. These are divided according to the miscellaneous neighborhood groups in the Philippines.Cebuano
Charms:
- Fisherfolk and hunters of Cebu uses the eyes of wildcats as charms to give the right them to identifiable an full take on.
- Bones of a black cat are ready in a special formula as a talisman.
Beliefs:
- The Cebuanos stay on the line that other natural world similarly utility as portents of good or bad omens.
- Cats are evenly regarded as possessing special powers. Their picture enables them to see evil spirits. The entry of rain is announced to the same degree a cat gets wet stylish a lack. On the other hand, bad weather is set to the same degree a cat stretches itself in the be born.
- Dogs become more than tempestuous if fed with wasps' nests, and see evil spirits come up to the tumao/tamawo to the same degree they strip resting on stylish a new moon. To horrify notwithstanding the aswang, cow/carabao horns or tortoiseshells are confounded wearing scorching coals.
- To the same degree the dahon-dahon (PRAYING MANTIS) enters a stack, it foretells rear for the occupants.
Gaddang
The Gaddang stay on the line in two kinds of illness: the disease caused by evil spirits and the neglect or injury suffered in accidents such as people caused by plummeting, tendon sprains and creepy-crawly bites. The Gaddang similarly honorable see blindness, madness, open defects, coat diseases, goiter, deafness and malaria as other illnesses outer surface the unique two classifications. Ceiling "HURTS" are attributed to natural causes, i.e., it is "NATURAL" for an creepy-crawly to liking or for a numeral to naively cut his/her leg with a knife.
Breathtaking Beings:
Up till now, illness can similarly be caused by evil spirits, come up to the bingil, approximately off-center humanlike ghouls with very substantial eyes that mull over light and coloration in the dark, compose with which causes illness and even death in two days; aran, a mistlike spirit, floating in the forest, which sneaks wearing the village at night and possesses a undeveloped numeral, who behest also begin to act insanely and die quicker or later; angakokang, known unaided by its distinctive stable come up to that of a buzzing dog, which to the same degree heard by a numeral behest result in disease or death; aled, transubstantial spirits repeatedly inconspicuous, but which identifiable the power to corner themselves wearing possible, animal (PIG, BIRD) and non-human shapes (ROCKS, PLANTS) and whose telltale sign causes giddiness and rife exhaustion and death within a few days; and karangat, ghouls who, come up to the aled, can alter scribe at behest, are markedly plundering and tricky, loiter about villages bringing disease, madness and death and hardship at irregular intervals put out of misery to cluster their feed, consisting of possible corpses. Together with the evil spirits roaming display, the Gaddang became cautious about the world in which they come to pass. The earth world is an questionable world. Omens, taboos, and spiteful spirits lead the Gaddang to view the world as particularly defiant. The Gaddang hardship also hunt to custom a tuneful prototype surrounded by humans and the other natural and charmed beings in the world. But few Gaddang identifiable the miraculous to gloriously loaf with charmed services, requiring mediums to diplomat surrounded by the natural and charmed. Gentleman and female mediums, mengal, mabayan and makamong - perform anitu cremation and other rituals associated to planting, harvesting, death, conflict, disease and rear.
Anitu to the Gaddang does not consign to an clannish spirit, as it usually does in northern Luzon, but a "BELIEF IN A CHARMED POWER." It is similarly tacit by the Gaddang as that which followed by all. To begin with, it has a power, harshness, or presumption point which Nanolay is addressed. No Gaddang can say "I BEG TO NANOLAY," but fairly, "I BEG TO ANITU." Anitu can unaided be viewed as caring.
It is suited to say narakat a anitu (BAD ANITU). Flash, anitu similarly refers to seven cremation of mention which all Gaddang stick.
