Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: Sargent Kayme In Year : 1901

Book Language: English

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Foreword
The Anting-Anting of Captain Von Tollig
The Cave in the Side of Coron
The Conjure Man of Siargao
Mrs. Hannah Smith, Nurse
The Fifteenth Wife
Our Lady of Pilar
A Question of Time
The Spirit of Mount Apo
With What Measure Ye Mete
Told at the Club
Pearls of Sulu

"No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the country and its strange peoples, now gives us a collection of simple yet wonderful stories which bring them before us with dramatic vividness... Strangest, perhaps, of all these possibilities for fiction is the 'anting-anting', at once a mysterious power to protect its possessor and the outward symbol of the protection..." - Summary from the Foreword