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Updated: May 5, 2025
He had begun to have serious trouble with one of his eyes, which threatened to render him unable to follow the work of hunting of which he was so fond. I tried to make him believe that this was the danger of which he claimed he had been warned by the stone, but he would not agree to this, saying that his 'anting-anting' always foretold only a violent death, or some serious bodily injury.
One of the prisoners we took not long ago wore a broad piece of cloth over his breast, on which was stained a picture of a man killing another with a 'barong. He believed that while he wore it no one could kill him with that weapon; and thought the only reason he was not killed in the skirmish in which he was captured was because he had the 'anting-anting' on."
A light twinkled in the distance; confused sounds reached the rescuers, and they pushed forward with renewed energy. "Ooooh, Mihing!" called Asin, in his cracked, wavering voice. "Ooooh!" came the answer from the barrio. "Piang, we look to you to protect us from Bal-Bal, to you and your sacred anting-anting." Solemnly Kali Pandapatan made this announcement. The boy was the first to land.
Naturally the stone was looked upon as a precious 'anting-anting, sent down from the sky, and was religiously watched until its mysterious properties were understood, and it was learned that it had the power to forewarn its owner against impending evil. When danger threatened its owner, Perico said, the stone glowed at night with a strange light which he believed was due to its celestial origin.
"Moreover, I could not but remember what I had seen that day, when the man now dead had said to me, 'I'll teach them. If his teachings had been effectual, had I any reason to criticise?" "Speaking of 'anting-anting," said a man at the club House on the bank of the Pasig river, in Manila, one evening, "I have had an experience in that line myself which was rather striking."
"If this was such a powerful charm why was the man killed who had it on. Why didn't it save him?" The Tagalog was silent. "Come. Tell me that, and you may go." "And have the book?" "Yes; and have the book." "It is a very great 'anting-anting. It never fails in its time.
The words seem to be Latin; bad Latin, too, I should say. I think it is what the natives call an 'anting-anting; that is a charm of some kind. Evidently this one did not save the life of the man who wore it. Probably it is a very famous talisman, else they would not have run such a risk to try to get it back." "Can you read it?" "Not off hand.
His mother believed that he had been spared for her sake. Heber Smith himself always said it was his mother's care that saved his life, while Juan never had the least doubt that the young soldier had been protected solely by a marvellous "anting-anting" which he himself had slipped unsuspected into the American soldier's blouse that day, before he had left him.
"What is that book?" The man made no answer. "Tell me what the book is, and why you wanted it; and you may go home." "Will the Señor give me back the book to carry home with me?" "I don't know. I'll see later about that." "It was an 'anting-anting. The strongest we ever knew. The man who had it was a chief. When he was dead I wanted it."
And this man's "anting-anting" was famous for the wonders which it had done. The "tulisane" knew that the American soldiers were at Pasi; and that the man who led them lived in one of the white tents they had set up there.
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