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Old Belief
← Mangkukulam
Small bowl of fine salt, three bulbs of garlic tied together and a steel kitchen knife lying on a scrubbed pale wooden table, salt spilled across the boards

the counter charm

The counter-measures are the same domestic items used against every other Philippine night-being: salt, garlic, iron, and a specialist to apply them.

Basis: Counter-cursing practice · AI-generated

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Small thatched bamboo house on wooden posts standing alone in rough grass in daylight, the tin and tile roofs of the village some distance off to one sidethe house at the edge →Torn strip of white cloth, a steel needle, three thin bamboo sticks and a spool of black thread laid out in a row on a woven matpins and thread →