There’s Anting-Anting or Amulet

There are some strange things which cannot be explained by people. For this reason, others were just living in the mysteries of life.

One afternoon, when the fishermen is preparing to go to the sea, their boats was caught up by the ebb tide. Whatever they do they can’t leave the area. It’s by chance that Geronimo owns the fish fence there. He just pushed the vessels and everything went fine and smooth when the group of divers can’t do anything in this situation.

Geronimo owns seven hectares of land. He only has one carabao or water buffalo and he’s the only one working in the farm while others have only a hectare of land to work with, plow or till. It was also told that if there’s an object stolen or taken which was owned by Geronimo, the person who committed it could not go far away or leave the place but just roam around in that area. Another unbelievable ability was shown by Geronimo. He can push a hundred pieces of bamboo in an instance. Many believed that Geronimo possesses an amulet which became the key for him to have an unusual attributes. 

In Calinog it also became popular in about 1901, there is a man named Ato who was said to have an amulet. He is always under the protection and custody of a group of soldiers. He will just throw fire matches and it will become his soldiers when needed. Ato also possesses the ability of invisibility. 

It was also believed that General Capadocia also has an amulet. It was during the 1950s. The General is almost cornered by the troops in a cave. It was certain that the General went inside the cave so those who followed him in the place gather around and attempts to corner him. However, when they went inside the cave they could not find what they are looking for despite of their stringent or thorough scrutiny and search. The people assumed that General Capadocia has the power of invisibility.

Saved Thread-Thin by the Last Minute

In a town lived Gimo who is rumored by the people as the aswang. One night in a gathering, a teacher was invited by the daughter of Gimo to spend the night in their house. The teacher agreed because there were no transportation to ride home. They were already lying in bed when the teacher overheard someone having a conversation. It was almost dawn then. She had doubts about what they are talking about and arguments and tried to understand it. She was never wrong with her intuition. A man ordered another person that when the water boils they will go upstairs in the house. To distinguish it from his daughters, they will look for the distinguishing marks of the teacher which is the earrings and the ring. The teacher was overwhelmed with extreme shock but she tried to compose herself and tried to find ways in this tough situation. She slowly and silently returns back to her bedroom, remove her jewelries and put carefully to one of the daughters of Gimo. She gets a patadyong to cover her face and went downstairs. She felt more shock and surprise when she saw a cauldron full of boiling water. She became more tense and have more goosebumps when she was sighted by Gimo and asked why she was downstairs. Fortunately, she was able to reason out immediately.  When she was able to shelter or hid away from the men, she run as fast she could away from that place. Meanwhile, Gimo went upstairs and chosen his victim.  He hacked the one he touches with jewelry and brought it down. In his clumsiness he realized that the one he hit was his daughter. They immediately chased and went after the escaped teacher who already reached the house of a judge.  The lady is narrating her ordeal when Gimo arrived. Gimo accused the teacher of stabbing her daughter but the judge never believed it. The daughter of Gimo was not dead. There are some statements claiming that the daughter of Gimo is putting a bandana on her neck to hide the scar caused by the wound on her neck.

Tenyente Gimo

In the gossips and rumors that Tenyente or Lieutenant Gimo is the “gabonan” or the leader of the aswang in the area, is a bare naked lie. Teniente Gimo is not an aswang. He is just a victim of some instances just like the narration in the following stories. 

In 1882, during the incumbency of municipal captain Fabiano Ortiz a terrifying great famine occurred. The dead bodies of the people were just picked up anywhere in town because of starvation. During these times, only Gimo has a good produce of corn (maize). Gimo is too thrifty and has no plan of sharing and giving away his corns without any equivalent payment. Gimo’s corn farm is thick and plenty and came the harvest. Gimo won’t allow the people to benefit from it and because of it, people think of ways to get his corns. They hid a nine-year old kid under the bundle of cornstalks. Darkness falls but the child did not return home. The parents asked for help. That night, they altogether searched for the child. The child was found under the bundle of corn bushels of Gimo’s farm. The rumors had spread that Gimo hid the child and Gimo is an aswang. Gimo disliked this because this will stain his reputation and honor. To stop the rumors that he is an aswang, he told the starving people to stop spreading the words that he is an aswang, and he is ready to give to everyone the corns in his farm fields. The hungry people are relieved and obtained a lot of reserved corns for many days.

However, even if Gimo had given all of his corns to save his reputation, the news had spread enough to extinguish it.  The name Gimo as an aswang was known for more several years.

To scare people of calling Gimo aswang, he was made a tenyente / teniente or lieutenant. After that, he was appointed as tenyente mayor or lieutenant major or second captain. The people discreetly talk about it whispering already that instead of Gimo only, it became Tenyente Gimo as an aswang.

Gimo was said to have a proprietary. People who belongs to the upper class and are well educated will never ever believe that Gimo is an aswang.


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