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What is a Catolonan?
Santiago favoured Mintz suggestion and used the term catolonan (which is actually a Pampangan term) to refer to the priests and priestesses of the Tagalogs instead of catalona or catalonan.
What is Hocloban?
Hocloban. Another kind of witch, of greater efficacy than the mangagauay. Without the use of medicine, and by simply saluting or raising the hand, they killed whom they chose.
What is babaylan ritual?
Babaylan Festival is an annual celebration held every 19th day of February during the Charter Anniversary of the City of Bago, Negros Occidental. It is a representation of the rituals performed by the Babaylans or high priestesses, like rituals of marriage, baptism, healing, and harvest.
What is Tikbalang in the Philippines?
The Tikbalang (/ˈtikbaˌlaŋ/) (also Tigbalang, Tigbalan, Tikbalan, Tigbolan, or Werehorse) is a creature of Philippine folklore said to lurk in the mountains and rainforests of the Philippines.
What is freemen or Timawa?
The Maharlika (meaning freeman or freedman) were the feudal warrior class in ancient Tagalog society in Luzon, the Philippines. The Spanish translated the name as Hidalgos (or libres). They belonged to the lower nobility class similar to the Timawa of the Visayan people.
Is Timawa an insult?
They were roughly similar to the Tagalog maharlika caste. The term later lost its military and nobility connotations and was demoted to mean “freemen” during the Spanish conquest of the Philippines.
What do Babaylans do?
Babaylan women serve as intermediaries between spiritual and material worlds in their communities. Their leadership roles are multi-fold: warrior, healer, priestess and sage. Babaylans listen to the community and lead through a deep understanding of the inter-connectedness of all life forms.
Are there male Babaylans?
The babaylan was often a woman, but there were male babaylan, too. In 1589 the Franciscan Juan de Plasencia drew up a list of 12 “ministers of the devil” in the Philippines from which we can easily recognize the: aswang, manananggal, and mancocolam.
What do Tikbalangs do?
Tikbalangs are said to scare travelers or play tricks on them which will lead them astray from the right path. Such tricks will keep the traveler from returning to the path, no matter how far he goes or where he turns.
What does a Tikbalang look like?
Appearance. The Tikbalang appears as a tall, bony creature resembling a humanoid horse. It is covered with a fluffy dark mane, while its fur is a lighter color.
What is the typical clothing of Bicolano?
The typical Bicolano wears light, western-styled clothes similar to the Filipinos in urban centres. Seldom, if ever, are there Bicolanos weaving sinamay or piña for clothing as in the past; sinamay is reserved now for pillow cases, mosquito nets, fishing nets, bags and other decorative items. Bicolanos celebrating the Magayon Festival.
Who are the Bicolanos?
The Bicolanos are the fifth-largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group. Their indigenous region is commonly considered to be Bicolandia, a region composing part of the Bicol Peninsula and neighbouring islands of south-east Luzon. The Bicolano people are largely an agricultural and rural people, producing rice, coconuts, and hemp.
What is aswang in Bicolano?
ANDUDUNO – In Bicolano folklore, an Aswang that could smell if a person is terminally ill. It prowls outside or under the house of the victim and uses its very long, snake-like tongue to lick the sick person until the victim dies. Sometimes it waits outside the house of a dying person.
What are the mythical creatures in Bicol?
LAYUG/ LAYAP – (Bicol) Layug or Layap. This is a creature that can assume the form of a dog or any creature that can fly (layug) or disappear (layap) at will. MAGINDARA – (Bicol) Manguindaras were underwater beings, our local concept of mythical siren.