Sorcery 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 sorcerers 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 (Albularyo) can reverse the effects of such sorcery.
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