The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 1670-1700: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 43, 1670-1700: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
The final document of the Appendix is translated from the supplement
for December 9, 1905, of El Renacimiento, of Manila, and treats of
the still prevailing belief among the more ignorant people of Luzón
in regard to witches. The mangkukulam, the male or female witch,
cannot look another person straight in the face, and has immense
power of doing evil to his neighbors. He causes various aches and
pains. The symptoms exhibited by the person bewitched are given,
as also the modus operandi of the witch. Regular physicians are
powerless because they do not believe in enchantment. Instead, a
special witch doctor is employed. His treatment consists in the use
of anona bark which has power over the witchcraft, and in bad cases
a good caning is often administered, or, the last resort, bathing in
boiling water. This last proves effective, for the patient dies under
it. The belief is that these severe measures do not harm the patient,
but the witch. There is another witch doctor, whose procedure differs
somewhat from that of the former and does not involve the discomfort
of the patient to so great a degree. A small wax figure made in human
shape is put into boiling water, whereupon the witch is bound to
present himself and confess his fault. The writer relates a personal
experience, in which, against his will, he was made to act the part of
witch doctor. The people have another name for another sort of witch,
who sends his sickness, which is incurable, through the air. Every
Friday, all witches suffer terribly as a sort of recompense for the
power which they possess, and next day attend the witches' frolic.
The Editors
September, 1906.
DOCUMENT OF 1670-1700
Dominican missions. Vicente de Salazar, O.P. [From his Historia
de el Santissimo Rosario.]
Source: This is translated and synopsized from Salazar's Historia de el
Santissimo Rosario (Manila, 1742), from a copy owned by Edward E. Ayer.
Translation: This is made by James A. Robertson.
DOMINICAN MISSIONS, 1670-1700
[The following is translated and synopsized from Vicente Salazar's
Historia, [1] from a copy belonging to Edward E. Ayer, Chicago. The
first five chapters contain nothing directly on the missions.]
CHAPTER VI
A new reënforcement of religious arrives at this province and the
[post of the] commissary of the Holy Office is given back to it.
[In 1671, a band of thirty-three missionaries, who had been gathered
by the definitor, Juan Polanco, arrives at Manila. [2] They are
as follows:]
The father lector, Fray Alonso Sandin, son of San Estevan, of
Salamanca, and head of the mission.
Father Fray Alonso de Cordova, son of Santo Domingo y San Pablo,
of Ezija.
Father Fray Miguel Rodrigo, of the convent of San Estevan, of
Salamanca.
Father Fray Andres Toro, of the convent of Santo Domingo, of El Campo
de Zafra.
Father Fray Alonso Dominguez, of the convent of San Ildephonso,
of Toro.
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