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I also saw a house constructed with a payer from the Qur’an tied to a post. Deposited into the hole where the house’s center post was to be laid was water and coins. Just as we Christians do.


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Magic in Tawi-Tawi, crocodile worship in Maguindanao

By Tingting Cojuangco | November 6, 2005 - 12:00am

What are you doing?" I asked a Maguindanaon when I saw him pour sugar into a hole where a wimpy coconut was waiting to be planted. "To sweeten the fruits of the coconut at kasama rin ang maraming pagbubunga." I...

Travel and Tourism

Pagbubuwaya & other animistic tales

By Tingting Cojuangco | November 3, 2002 - 12:00am

What are you doing? I asked a person putting sugar in a hole in the ground. I was in Maguindanao and they explained to me that this was where a coconut tree was going to be planted and the sugar would make the fruits...

Sunday Lifestyle

The Crocodile Story

By Tingting Cojuangco | August 4, 2002 - 12:00am

In the course of my research on the water ritual of the Samal tribe, I chanced upon the unique crocodile ceremony of the Maguindanaoans. Boiled rice shaped like a crocodile was, after a day’s preparation and...

Sunday Lifestyle