The History of Marinduque from Ulong Beach
To our friends and neighbors in Santa Cruz, Do you still fear the Asuang or Caffre? What can you do or not do during thunder and lightning? In 1924 Serapio Rolluqui, a student at the University of the Philippines and Santa Cruz resident, published the above paper.
| Topics include: Asuang, Death, Dreams, Ghosts, Good and Bad Luck, Lightning and Thunder, Love Affairs, Money, Rain, Sickness and Visitors |
Josefa graduated the University of the Philippines in 1924 with a Degree of Bachelor of Science in Education.
Some of the topics covered in her paper are: Asuang, Beliefs about the Pregnant, Beliefs in Building Houses, Beliefs in Christening Babies, Beliefs in Planting, Capre, Culture, Customs and Superstitions about Marriage, Customs and superstitions practiced about the dead, Encantades, Fairies, Patianac, Tigbalang
She culminated her paper by saying, ” Our province is rapidly progressing not only in agriculture and commerce but also in education; and the time is fast approaching when the masses will all be educated and these superstitions which I mentioned will soon be effaced.
Was she correct or do will still have these in our memories today?
