Stories from the Philippines in the years of the American occupation, built around the anting-anting, a charm believed to make its wearer invulnerable. A German captain trusts one, a cave on Coron hides a secret, a conjure man of Siargao works his spells, and an American nurse and a Visayan woman’s prayers alter men’s fates.
Colonial-era tales that look at Filipinos through American eyes of 1901, with both curiosity and condescension. Download the free EPUB.