Comment by terry joven on May 24, 2010 at 9:13am

Ramyer great story!
my wife" family are Ilaga.

Comment by Ramyer Asonalleba on May 24, 2010 at 8:36pm

Igso Terry,

Very interesting, I am a bet familiar with the Ilaga. Mostly they are in the Visayas and Mindanao where they are being utilized as a Para Military Group for insurgency. Most of these groups have the same traditions and rituals with other common groups like Tad-Tad, Sagrado Corazon de Hesus or the Kadre of the Visayas. In Negros they have the Salvatore which commonly have the same aspirations more or less.

Good Information and great part of the Filipino Warrior HIstory.

Mapasalamaton!
LSK-FMA

Comment by terry joven on May 24, 2010 at 11:15pm

Igso Ramyer
My wife is telling me that her parents me at a Ilaga meeting and that her dad was also Tad-Tad he is also a member of the Gaurdians. her uncle Alejandro Turno had over kills in his younger days.
She is also telling many stories about the Sigbinan, one of her aunts was supposively killed by a Sigbigan. or Wak wak.

Comment by terry joven on May 24, 2010 at 11:52pm

Igso Raymer
My father-in-law Ruben Palomar was also born in Negros Oreintal asked me if you heard of the Akolbe family they are also reputed to be Sigbigan!

Comment by Bill on May 25, 2010 at 2:11am

When we used to go TDY with the medical unit I was with while stationed in the Philippines, we would go to the mountains of Luzon and elsewhere in the country.. It was there where I had my first encounter with this type of superstition and practices.. We went to the mountains north of Baguio and did a med cap mission where the faith healers and herbalarios were in the locations as we were.. I saw some of the anting antings and orascions performed by these individuals when I went to a holistic provider to take care of a knee problem I had sustained while in eskrima training.. I had seen the medics with the unit I worked with, but all they did was to prescribe meds and anti inflammatories.. This Herbalario performed a couple of orascions and placed some herbs on my knee, all the while I am thinking what the devil did I get myself into.. It was when the swelling and bruising had disappeared that made me a true believer from the western part of the world.. Now I prefer to see the holistic healers of the Philippines more than I see the western medicos, if time allows..

Comment by Marc Lawrence on May 25, 2010 at 9:04am

To often people say they do not believe something because they can not see it, but that does not mean it does not exist, A good example is the use of thermal imaging cameras, they allow us to see in to another spectrum of light that otherwise we would see just the edge of on hot day where you see heat waves. I find it interesting that they could only see the creature early in the morning walking behind your grandpa. Most native peoples would say he had spirit guardian. The power of internal spirit for healing is amazing thing. People forget that we are bio-mechanical machines that use energy to function, our modern science is just starting to see this with machines, yet we all know it is there. For those of you who scoff, you have at least once felt someone staring at you and it made you look for them.

Comment by Ramyer Asonalleba on May 26, 2010 at 7:16pm

To all of my Igsoon here at My FMA, at first, it was a bet awkward and uncomfortable to divulge information of supernatural proportion because we are in the 21st century already. We can't deny that much of all of these things still very much alive if not stories we often heard from our Old Folks before but when you go back to the countries deep in the Philippines, some of these things are still pretty much practice. I know there is two side of it. Thigns that brings forth good health and protection and the other side is much darker to cause harm or even death. I do believe that some people with mystical powers do have some kind of a regular obligation in order to keep the source of it's power, but to fail to perform these obligation would be the last thing he or she would do because they know the consequences. All of these were and are always part of our culture and there is no way we can deny it. The Sigbinan and the origin of WAk-wak is not the same. Some people believe that a wak-wak is a human being turned into a savage blood seeking creature, which often seeks it's most precious target the newly born babies or pregnant women. They oftentimes flew on top of the roof of the house and make a whole then drop there extended tongue into the belly button of the pregnant woman and suck everything inside. A Sigbinan is believe to be a person who possesses a mystical creature they commonly called a Sigbin that believe to bring good luck, fortune, and protection. No one ever saw what it really looks like and a lot of people say it looks like a kangaroo, a big rabbit like or a huge dog like creature which oftentimes bend backwards while walking. So funny when we started talking about all of these things but good to know somehow the other aspect of our Filipino culture.

Mapasalamaton!
LSK-FMA

Comment by Ramyer Asonalleba on May 26, 2010 at 7:30pm

Igso Terry,

I am sorry but no way I could remember any of these family known to be Sigbinan, but I was told that families considered to be Sigbinan never associates with other Sigbbinan families. Most of the times they were even secretive about it within their family member. The Sigbin, believe to be, and obeys only the owner and not the other members of the family. It is the head of the clan that usually owns it and by it, the head of the clan protects the family that belongs to the clan. A successor will be chosen as the owner dies and only if the Sigbin wishes to stay with the chosen one. What I know, and I am not an expert to these, but Sigbin only eats the fresh squash sprout, pure wood charcoal or drinks the "Bula sa Dagat". So the answer to your claim might be a Wak-wak and not a Sigbinan.

Mapasalamaton!
LSK-FMA

Comment by terry joven on May 29, 2010 at 8:31am

Igso Ramyer
it probably was a Wak wak cuz she was pregnant. and had lost a lot of blood and had a lot of black bruises?
When we st starting talking about the Sigbin she also said it looked like a Kangarro.
anyway....
terry

Comment by Ramyer Asonalleba on June 16, 2010 at 9:51am

Thanks for all the great stories, folklore or not, it's all part of our cultural heritage and still searching for better understanding of our past.

Mapasalamaton!
LSK-FMA

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