Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Supernatural Mojo Store in Boracay Island

A tourist poses beside a mojo store display table in Boracay.

Here is a small mojo store in Boracay Island situated along world-famous White Beach. The stuff sold and displayed here appear to be charms which come from different places in the Philippines and abroad. For instance, many of the wooden statues on display are likely from the Northern mountain regions of the Philippines like Baguio. They are called anito and they represent either ancestral spirits or granary gods.

If you're into lucky charms and other scary stuff, then the items in this store should be of interest to you. It's hard to say what the items shown in the pictures are for. But you can see what appears to be a dream catcher in one of the pictures (top); there are also monkey skulls, which, in some cultures, are considered lucky. Sometimes, they are used to cast spells - for good or otherwise.

Boracay island is just off the northern tip of Panay island in the Philippines, where it is said, many residents practice a local form of witchcraft and where monsters like aswangs and manananggals roam at night looking for victims. The aswang is supposed to be like a werewolf that can shape-shift into a large dog through the application of a magical balm on the skin; the manananggal on the other hand, is a woman who can separate her upper body from her torso when she goes off in search of fresh, young human meat. Could there be charms in this store that will help protect you from such supernatural creatures? Could there be charms here that can turn you into an aswang? Perhaps they are just ordinary trinkets with no otherworldly powers at all? There's only one way to find out!

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Orbs in a Moonlit Night in the Philippines


These photos were taken on a moonlit night in Rizal in the Philippines. The orbs that appeared seem to be at various distances and seem to have differing hues when examined closely. Whether or not these are merely the result of reflection from particles in the air, it's hard to tell. But the area is supposedly rife with supernatural beings. A interior picture taken reveals a bright orb near a folded mattress. How is this orb connected to the ones outside?

There have been tales of white lady ghosts, smiling dark-cloaked strangers appearing in the vicinity, and cigar-smoking ogres (kapre) knocking on second floor windows. In one road, there were reports of a specter wearing the traditional barong tagalog seen floating above the pavement. Are these real?


The orbs may be difficult to see, so please double-click on the images to see them in a bigger format. The bright "orb" in the first two pictures is actually the moon.

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