#Mananambal (healer or medicine men) of #Siquijor featured at Channel 5

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Rizal Philippines   |  September 20, 2014





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Wiki post on mananambal

Yesterday I watched the TV show which featured Siquijor  There are many weird and interesting things about Siquijor like their food and practices.  There are those who are well known, as babaylan sorcerers or witches and they are feared.  Then there are those who practice black magic  There was this guy who was good in dancing paper, but who is now a "mananambal" a medicine man  (the magic he practices are simple like stick becoming a match, or joining cut nylon.

But the mananambal said he could make the dead rise, but would not talk, and that the dead who rose from the dead would also die.

There was this Norwegian who was completely cured of his painful condition of psoriasis





The best healing plants according to many are found in Siquijor according to other herbalists. No unique explanations are given.

There is also fountain of youth.... and these are produced by a group called Maharlikan Infinitus.  Their practices are based on ancient knowledge.

Excerpts from Wiki:

he mananambal's pharmacopoeia is made up of plants (80%), animals (10%) and minerals (10%).^[3]

Rituals[edit]

Some of the rituals observed by the mananambal include:

• Pangalap - the aforementioned yearly search for concoction ingredients
• Halad - ritual offering of food and drink to honor the spirits of the dead
• Palínà - ritual fumigation; called tu-ob in the islands of Panay and Negros
• Pangadlip - the chopping or slicing of pangalap ingredients
• Pagpagong - burning or reducing the ingredients into charcoal or ashes
• Making of Minasa - concoctions made from the pangalap ingredients
• Rubbing with Lana - medicinal oil concocted from coconut

Sorcery[edit]

The powers of sorcery may be gained after a practitioner "learns methods of malign magic and establishes a relationship with a spirit that supports this magic".^[5] Some forms of sorcery include:

• Barang - the use of familiar spirit to inflict pain and sickness in a person
• Haplit - using a doll to represent the victim; the Filipino sorcerer's equivalent of using a voodoo doll
• Paktol - paktol means to "knock on the head"; the use of a skull or some other representation of the victim. Any insult done the representation, the victim feels the corresponding harm
• Anyaw - the art of courting the favor of malign spirits with food containing no salt; the sorcerer then asks the spirit to bring harm on an intended victim
• Là-gà - "to boil", the sorcerer boils objects belonging to the victim; the victim suffers from unease, sleeplessness, fatigue, malaise and later, death

These forms of sorcery equate with the Tagalog term, Kulam and are resistant to the ministrations of Western medicine. Only a mananambal can reverse the effects of such so

Do you believe that the "mananambal" of Siquijor are that good?







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