Beliefs in Santo Tomas, Batangas by Aurora A. Hernandez, 1925
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BELIEFS IN SANTO TOMAS
By
Aurora A. Hernandez.
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Classification:
- TAGALOG: Santo Tomas, Batangas Province.
- Summary: Folklore: Beliefs
Manila
January 17, 1925
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By
Aurora A. Hernandez.
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1. If the cock crows at an unusual hour at night, the house where it is will find that there will be a young girl eloping.
2. If only one boy is baptized along with many other baby girls, he will always be fortunate in courtship.
3. If a dog howls in front of one’s house, there will be a near relative dying.
4. If you dreamed that one of your teeth fell, a near relative of yours is dead.
5. If you dream that your house is burned, a relative of your dies.
6. If you smell a burning candle although there is none in your house, a relative of yours is dying.
7. When you are traveling and you meet a black cat on the way, don’t proceed anymore for something will happen to you.
8. If a gambler meets a snake on his way before he goes to the gambling den, he will win.
9. If a child is baptized and the godmother or godfather prays “I believe in God” and then blows on his head, the child will have all the godmother’s characteristics.
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10. Before a wedding, any of the future man and wife is not allowed to leave the house for some evil might happen.
11. If a child is allowed to eat her first meal from the end of a knife when she is just starting to eat rice, she will grow to be a sharp-talker.
12. When from a single cat you are able to get 13 in number thin [probably typographical] generation, the owner will never suffer poverty.
13. When a young girl is to be married, old folks put money in her skirt while it is being sewed, for the new couple will never suffer [being] penniless.
January 17, 1925.
Notes and references:
Transcribed from “Beliefs in "Santo Tomas,” by Aurora A. Hernandez, 1925, online at the Henry Otley-Beyer Collection of the National Library of the Philippines Digital Collections.