Authentic Though Not Exotic:
Essays On Filipino Identity
Fernando Nakpil ZialcitaToward a Community
Broader than the Kin
Kang ang abi ay walang ms Baan ay dl matt
Iflove ir brent, counties il nt ast.
—Enilo Jacinto, ca 1895-1896
SOME TEACHER FRIENDS in the locos confide hat when they visit
sn unfamiliar hamles, even within the same municipality where they
reside, hey carey smal bots of consecrated coconut ila protec:
tion guns sorcery. One supposed sgn of hexng ie stomach disorder
When I would mention wanting to visit say, another hamlet afew
Iillometers down the rad, fiends would warn me that ie harbored
sorcerers [mannamay]. However, in that hamlet-down-the-oad,
fiends there would be concemed tha I had been saying in that
hamlt-upthe-oad They feared forts sorcerer! This suspicious
res toward outer, even ofthe sme ethniciy and language, hat
characterized aon-llocanos aswell at ceein times in thee history.
“Maximo Ramos (1971, 48), he folklorist, relates 2 1930s ele fom
‘he Tagalog speaking town of Lachsn, Quezon. Teachers came fom
allover the province for a seminat, The townspeople aimed that
during that week, black-winged creatures with human heads and
‘or but no lower bodies flew at night After the seminar ended,
peace returned, Bicolanos have als had a similar tendency wo accise
the stranger of witchcraft (Lynch 1963, 151). So do rural dwellers
Jn Samar according to my sociologist coleague Lele Lope (2002)
‘who halle foen chat province
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