Tinood naay demonyo pero barang? di ko motuo ana...bisan sa bata pa ko kadaghan
nako nakadungog ug mga sugilanon ug ngalan sa mga tawo nga kono biktima sa barang
naa man ni sa atong culture nga tuotuo sa mga folklore as follows;
The powers of sorcery may be gained after a practitioner "learns methods of malign magic and
establishes a relationship with a spirit that supports this magic".[5] Some forms of sorcery include:
* Barang - the use of beetles to inflict pain and sickness in a person
* Haplit - using a doll to represent the victim; the Filipino sorcerer's equivalent of using a
voodoo doll
* Paktol - paktol means to "knock on the head"; the use of a skull or some other representation
of the victim. Any insult done the representation, the victim feels the corresponding harm
* Anyaw - the art of courting the favor of malign spirits with food containing no salt; the sorcerer
then asks the spirit to bring harm on an intended victim
* Là -gà - "to boil", the sorcerer boils objects belonging to the victim; the victim suffers from
unease, sleeplessness, fatigue, malaise and later, death
These forms of sorcery equate with the Tagalog term, Kulam and are resistant to the
ministrations of Western medicine. Only a mananambal can reverse the effects of such sorcery.
The mambabarang keeps his beetles in a bottle or a section of bamboo, carefully feeding them
ginger root. When the practitioner decides to employ his dark art, he performs a prayer ritual
wherein he whispers instructions and identifies the victim to the beetles.
The insects are then set free and to seek out the victim and gain entry into the body via any
bodily orifice: the nose, mouth, ears, anus or dermal breaks such as open wounds.
The victim will then feel the effects of the invasion through manifestations depending on the
area of entry; hemorrhoids if through the anus, ear ache if through the ears and other similar cases.
The resulting illness is resistant to conventional medical treatment and only reveals its true
nature when the victim succumbs and flying insects issue forth from bodily cavities.
Superstitious folks still attribute certain illnesses or diseases to barang. This most often happens
in the provinces, where a herbal doctor, albularyo or a faith healer, a mananambal or sorhuana
(female) / sorhuano (male) treats such diseases. In some rural provincial areas, people
completely rely on the albularyo and mananambal for treatment.
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