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Should the child be ailing she will return, and having placed rice and betel-nut on banana leaves she carries these to the top of the house and there offers them to the asuang, meanwhile asking those spirits to accept the offering and to cease troubling the child.
The sick are never abandoned prior to death, but slaves nearing death are sometimes killed to stop their sufferings. The owner, however, must first consult with others of the clan." Returning from the burial all the people partake of a feast and then set fire to the dwelling "because we do not like the asuang which killed the man in that house."
The senior sacristan made a small fortune selling or giving away as alms, we should say all things necessary for the salvation of the soul and the warfare against the devil, as it is well known that this spirit, which formerly had the temerity to contradict God himself face to face and to doubt His words, as is related in the holy book of Job, who carried our Lord Christ through the air as afterwards in the Dark Ages he carried the ghosts, and continues, according to report, to carry the asuang of the Philippines, now seems to have become so shamefaced that he cannot endure the sight of a piece of painted cloth and that he fears the knots on a cord.
BLAIR and ROBERTSON, Vol. XII, 269, XLIII, p. 217, etc. Filed in the office of the Governor of Davao. From this testimony it appears that in a part of the Mandaya territory the spirit Diwata, at least, is represented by images. Asuang. This name is applied to a class of malevolent spirits who inhabit certain trees, cliffs and streams.
The next day they took a drum and a shovel and went into the mountains, where there was a great enchanter who was a very wealthy man and also an asuang. They dug a great hole and then Juan hid in the woods and began to beat his drum, and the monkey rushed up to the enchanter's house and told him the soldiers were coming, and that he would hide him.
Ill-usage prevails to a great extent, although prohibited by a stringent law; the non-enforcement of which by the alcaldes is charged with a penalty of 100 dollars for every single case of neglect. The Asuang is the ghoul of the Arabian Nights' tales. Veritable cannibals are not mentioned by the older authors on the Philippines.
The traditional concept of Buso among the Bagobo has essentially the same content as that of Asuang with Visayan peoples. Both Buso and Asuang suggest the Rákshasa of Indian myth. See footnote 2, p. 19. A stout work-knife, with broad, one-edged blade, and square tip; used to hew down trees, and cut kindling-wood.
Most Filipinos were afraid of an imaginary spirit, devil or mythical creature known as asuáng, and closed their windows and doors after dark as a protection against it. Thus it came about that in a country where fresh air is especially necessary at night no one got it. Tuberculosis was dreadfully common, and its victims were conveying it to others without let or hindrance.
First she converses with the dead father or other deceased relative of the sick person and requests his aid in effecting a cure, next she presents food to Diwata and implores his aid, and finally calls upon the asuang to whom she offers the live fowl on the condition that they will cease trying to injure the patient.
The lad of Trayguerra who assailed the ugly woman for mistaking her for the devil himself after hearing a sermon of San Vicente, is absolutely of the same nature as those possessed of the asuang referred to by Mr. Villamor. And what shall be said of the protection of San Isidro invoked by the agriculturists?
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