CUSTOM OF TAGALOGS Flashcards
The author of Customs of Tagalogs.
Juan de Plasencia
In which people are ranked according to their social status.
Caste system
Chief of the barangay
DATOS
(highest class; nobles)- freeborn
MAHARLIKA
commoners
ALIPING NAMAMAHAY
slaves
ALIPING SAGUIGUILIR
Payment given by the men to the women’s parents.
Dowry
The name of the festival they wish to celebrate or worship in the large house of a chief.
Pandot
Temporary shed
Sibi
“all powerful”, or “maker of all things”
Badhala/Bathala
Either man or woman; an honorable one among the natives and could be held by people of rank
Catalonan
Also known as witches’ deceive or pretends to heal the sick; if wishes to kills someone at once, they could and they could prolong life for a year by binding
to the waist a live serpent
Mangagauay
Same with mangagauay; had the power of sapplying remedies to lovers that they would abandonw their own wives, and prevent them in having sexual intercourse with the latter; if the woman, constrained by these, were abandoned, it would bring sickness, would discharge blood and matter
Manyisalat
Duty was to emit fire from himself at night, once or oftener each
month; the fire emitted could not be extinguished
Mancocolam
Another kind of witch but of greater efficacy than the mangagauay; they could kill someone whom they chose either by saluting or raising the hand; they
could heal those whom they made ill by using other charms.
Hocloban
