It’s been days since I got sick. They tell me that it’s because I did something to anger the spirits,…
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Engkantada – Tagalog Translation
*Note this story is in Tagalog “Sandali lang! ang bilis niyong maglakad!” habol-hiningang sabi ni Reymark sa mga kasamahan. “Akala…
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Dawinde
Once there was an angry girl with nowhere to go. A great sickness enveloped the land, and the people in…
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Tomawo
(1994) Nichter, M. Anthropological approaches to the study of ethnomedicine. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. Wait, no, that isn’t…
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Anggitay – Hiligaynon Translation
*Note this story is in Hiligaynon Halin sa taguangkan sang kalibutan ako nagdaku Naga-inggat kapareho sang adlaw kung agaSa imo…
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Aghoy – Tagalog Translation
*Note this story is in Tagalog Dapat kang magtiwala at maniwala sa mga tao, dahil kung hindi, mahihirapan kang mabuhay.…
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Appeasing the Moon Serpents
Every night the bakunawas come. It started a month ago. Our village was no stranger to the moon serpents, and…
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Engkantada
Maria clutched her rosary tight. She said her prayers in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary with an…
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Idlivun
“I still look for her In the forests In empty fields Through the sky Beside the horizon On barren rocks…
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The King of the Fireflies
One night by the anislag tree the fireflies began their nightly ritual. For as long as any of them could…
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