Gebuano SorceryUniversity of California Press |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Setting | 7 |
Methods of Sorcery | 48 |
Witches | 65 |
Sorcery and Cebuano Society 124 | |
Common terms and phrases
Agaton amulet animals asked aswang attributed to sorcery balalanti barang barrio became ill behavior beliefs buyag buyagan Cebu City Cebu island Cebuano area Cebuano society Cebuano sorcery cerer cery client coconut cure curse Danilo diagnosis discussed doll Dumaguete City E. E. Evans-Pritchard economic effect example Filipino folk medicine form of sorcery healer hilo husband Ibid illness to sorcery individual informant ingkanto insects intended victim island kanomay Leyte Magatas malign magic mananambal mananambal's mangungkong Manila medical system ment method of sorcery modern medicine nambal Negros Negros Oriental neighbor pain paktol Paulina person Philippines physicians poison Polson and Pal practitioner role rural Samar Islands Sibulan sigbin Siquijor situation skull social control someone sorcerer's sorcery attack sorcery methods sorcery patients sorcery victim spirit supernatural suspected symptoms tion told treated treatment trees type of sorcery University of Manila usik victims of sorcery wife witch witchcraft woman