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Old Belief
← Duwende
Cone of red earth standing in the middle of a swept bare yard, the ground raked clear all around it, a thatched house and banana plants behind

the mound left standing

What people do about them is visible in the ground: the mound stays, the yard is swept around it, and nothing is built on that spot.

Basis: Treatment of mounds in Philippine yards · AI-generated

More of this creature

Shadowed space under a house raised on heavy timber posts, bare swept earth between them, firewood stacked at one side and bright grass and sea showing beyondunder the house posts →White enamel plate holding a mound of rice with half a boiled egg on it, set on red earth at the foot of a lashed bamboo house ladder, two ants on the rimthe plate on the step →