Anting Anting Stories - and other strange stories from the Philippines E-Book

Retold By Sargent Kwayme

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The Anting-Anting is both talisman and fetich: it is the Filipino version of good medicine. The characters and situations in these eleven stories are from an earlier, less progressive era. These stories contain adventure, mystical elements, pirates, pearls, man-apes, towering volcanoes, strange animals and birds, and even stranger men, pythons, bejuco ropes stained with human blood, feathering palm trees at one moment fanned by soft tropical breezes and the next uprooted and hurled aside by tornadoes. Mr. Kayme tells the eleven stories, and tells them cleverly, from the point of a non-Filipino looking in on Filipino life and makes no attempt to imitate Kipling. Kayme’s “Anting-Anting" stories give the native Filipino of unmixed blood a place in western fiction. In the late 19th C. he was favourably compared to the North American Indian of the same era. But that was over 100 years ago and perceptions and attitudes have changed a lot since 1901. So download this interesting volume, settle into a comfy chair and enter into the colourful world of Filipino life, folk beliefs and superstitions of a hundred years ago. And if you should ever visit the Philippines, don’t be surprised to find that these superstitions are as prevalent today as they were a century ago.  

Leseprobe

Anting-Anting Stories

And Other

Strange Tales of the Filipinos

BySargent Kayme

Originally Published by

Small, Maynard & Company, Boston

[1901]

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Resurrected by

Abela Publishing, London

[2013]

ANTING-ANTING STORIES

AND OTHER

STRANGE TALES OF THE FILIPINOS

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2013

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Abela Publishing

London

United Kingdom

2012

ISBN-13: 978-1-909302-17-4

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Acknowledgements

Abela Publishing acknowledges the work that

Sargent Kayme

did in editing and publishing the

Anting Anting Stories

in a time well before any electronic media was in use.

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33% of the net profit from the sale of this book

will be donated to charity

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Abela Publishing,

YESTERDAY’S BOOKS

raising funds for

TODAY’S CHARITIES

Original cover of

Anting Anting Stories

[1901]

Foreword

The life of the inhabitants of the far-away Eastern islands in which the people of the United States are now so vitally interested opens to our literature a new field not less fresh and original than that which came to us when Mr. Kipling first published his Indian tales. India had always possessed its wonders and its remarkable types, but they waited long for adequate expression. No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the country and its strange peoples, now gives us a collection of simple yet powerful stories which bring them before us with dramatic vividness.

Pirates, half naked natives, pearls, man-apes, towering volcanoes about whose summits clouds and unearthly traditions float together, strange animals and birds, and stranger men, pythons, bejuco ropes stained with human blood, feathering palm trees now fanned by soft breezes and now crushed to the ground by tornadoes;—on no mimic stage was ever a more wonderful scene set for such a company of actors. That the truly remarkable stories written by Sargent Kayme do not exaggerate the realities of this strange life can be easily seen by anyone who has read the letters from press correspondents, our soldiers, or the more formal books of travel.

Strangest, perhaps, of all these possibilities for fiction is the anting-anting, at once a mysterious power to protect its possessor and the outward symbol of the protection. No more curious fetich can be found in the history of folk-lore. A button, a coin, a bit of paper with unintelligible words scribbled upon it, a bone, a stone, a garment, anything, almost—often a thing of no intrinsic value—its owner has been known to walk up to the muzzle of a loaded musket or rush upon the point of a bayonet with a confidence so sublime as to silence ridicule and to command admiration if not respect.

The Editor.

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FOREWORD

CONTENTS

ANTING-ANTING STORIES

THE ANTING-ANTING OF CAPTAIN VON

TOLLIG

THE CAVE IN THE SIDE OF CORON

THE CONJURE MAN OF SIARGAO

MRS. HANNAH SMITH, NURSE

THE FIFTEENTH WIFE

“OUR LADY OF PILAR”

A QUESTION OF TIME

THE SPIRIT OF MT. APO

WITH WHAT MEASURE YE METE

TOLD AT THE CLUB

PEARLS OF SULU

Anting-Anting

Stories

The Anting-Anting

of Captain Von Tollig

There had been a battle between the American forces and the Tagalogs, and the natives had been driven back. The stone church of Santa Maria, around which the engagement had been hottest, and far beyond which the native lines had now been driven, had been turned into a hospital for the wounded Tagalogs left by their comrades on the field. Beneath a broad thatched shed behind the church lay the bodies of the dead, stiff and still under the coverings of cocoanut-fibre cloth thrown hastily over them. The light of a full tropic moon threw the shadow of the roof over them like a soft, brown velvet pall. They were to be buried between day-break and sunrise, that the men who buried them might escape the heat of the day.