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- place of adoration

- festival

– temporary shed on each side of a


house

- small lamps
 Bathala
 Sun
 Moon
 Morning Star or Tala
– change of season
– greater bear
– images with different shapes
– patron of lovers and of generation.
– cultivated lands and of husbandry.
They paid reverence to water lizards
PLACENSIA
CLASSIFICATION
OF WITCHES
CATALONAN
• Man or woman
• Powerful rank

MANGANGAUAY
• Witch
• Induce maladies
• Can cause death
MANYISALAT
• Witch
• Cause infidelity
• Cause impotence
• Cause sickness
MANCOCOLAM
• Omits fire
• Wallows in ordure and filth
which falls from houses
• Causes illness and death
HOCLOBAN
• Powerful witch
• Causes death
• Can heal as well
• Can destroy a home

SILAGAN
• Eats liver
• Causes violent death
MAGTATANGAL
• Creature
• Head separates and
body walks about.

OSUANG
• Sorcerer
• Can fly
• Eats flesh
MANGANGAYOMA
• Witch
• Deceived people
• Made the unwilling fall in love
SONAT
• Preacher
• Helps one die
PANGATAHOJAN
• Soothsayer

BAYOGUIN
• Cotqueen
• Homosexual
• Man acting as a woman
BURYING THE DEAD

 Buried beside the house. If he were a chief, he was placed


 beneath a little house
 Mourn for 4days then laid him on a boat which served as a
coffin
 A living slave is tied beneath the deceased’s body
 The grief is accompanied by eating and drinking
Maca - another life of rest

Casanaan - place of punishment

Sitan - demons

Vibit - ghosts

Tigbalaang - phantoms

Patianac

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