Wednesday, September 22, 2010

A scary yet discriminatory beliefs in our Barangay.
Being raised in a remote place in Bukidnon, it was not surprising how my neighbors believed in supernatural being like manananggal and most especially vampires. There was one rumor in our place that this old woman probably 50 years of age was a vampire. What made them accused her where in fact she was not that typical vampire who possessed a very intimidating visage as we could see in movies and whatsoever.I mean, she couldn't be a vampire, she was very approachable and upon looking at her, you would probably said she was beautiful and pesentable despite of her age. The vampires as far as I knew were afraid of light. they disguised as human, they were immortals who could live for how many centuries. A cold blooded immortal who could read your thoughts and could predict what will happen in the future. Vampires could move from place to place in a blink of an eye and I don't think so she possessed all those stuffs. She was really an ordinary woman who couldn't dare to do cruel acts like sucking one's blood and eating human organs for survival. She could not really did that thing. Why? because she never ever qualified to be a vampire.


That popular notion reached her but I didn't knew how she reacted. She was still calm as if nothing was going wrong.


I admitted that before,I felt intimated and even threatened but upon growing up I realized that I should not.


Perhaps I had this idea that they only used her to scare their children not to wander especially in the evening. It was very disappointing then how they destroyed one's moral for personal interest. I hope they would consider that...



It was funny how ignorant my people in Bukidnon but I could not question them for accusing her, for believing such thing because it was their ideology and I could do anything to change it. Maybe someday they would realized their mistakes and probably asked for forgiveness for what they had done to " Annie", our neighbor.

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