Philippine Demonological Legends and Their Cultural Bearings

By Maximo D. Ramos

IN THE PHILIPPINES, folk healers continue to have extensive practice back home, prescribing cures to appease demonological beings whose domain, they say, the patient has violated. At twilight the healer casts uncooked rice or puts a bowl of saltless boiled chicken where the patient last worked or played before becoming ill. The healer then begs the spirits to accept the offering, forgive the patient's trespass, and heal him.The farmer also offers rice cakes, cigars or cigarettes, wine

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1721048251
• ISBN13: 9781721048250
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"