How to make Baras Charcoal antidote against deadly Black Widow spider bite and orange hornet sting.

Black widow spider can be found around your house, your garage, storage room and porch.  Orange hornet can be found in the forest, mountains and wilderness.

The spider has distinctive marking that you can recognize easily. It is slim with long slender legs. It has hour-glass mark on its body in flaming red.

Its bite can paralyzed a person while the  deadly hornet  sting can kill a person.

The anti-venom for this poison can only be procured from selected hospital in the city.

Baras charcoal, an age-old remedy of shamans of Visayan origin, antidote to the venom and the only first aid that can be easily prepared for personal use.

The procedure:

Prepare a foot-long antler of a deer, a reindeer or moose. prepare a heap of wood with the antler on top. Make a charcoal mound by covering the wood with green leaves and grass  then topped with ground soil.
Make an opening at the bottom on the ground. This will served as flickering portion. At the opening make a hole by carving hollow portion from the heap of wood. Insert  a flaming fire  torch in the hollow part and let it consume the wood. When the fire starts to burn, cover the opening with soil. See to it that the air that was entering  is just enough to burn the wood in slow reaction and not to burn it in raging fire. If this happen, cover with soil all the opening of the air.

After the the fire had died out, dig the soil and search for the burnt antler that become a charcoal.
Saw the charcoal into a small pieces.

To test its efficacy, drop the charcoal into your tongue. If it stuck and sucks your saliva it is effective.

Once bitten by these insects, just stuck the charcoal on the wound or the bitten flesh. It will suck its poison.

The mystery of Phoenix catching fire in flight and darkness where its radiant light cause insanity

From the oral account of Juan Salinel of Lanas Hambil, San Jose Island, Romblon.

My friend Eduardo is always awake every night especially during rainy season were planting of rice begins.
He used to pasture the water buffaloes  of his master during nighttime so that on daytime the animals will work in the fields with full stomach.

One night while we were together in the hills to pasture our animals, we saw a low-flying birds glowing in the dark. We immediately seek cover for we knew that its bueacao bird we are seeing. The flock passed above our heads without seeing us. We look at the flaming birds until it landed near the creek.

My friend wanted to catch the bird because it is a source of powerful talisman. He prepared his weapon that can penetrate the flame of the bird. It is an arrow with a  black coral tip spear on it. The coral is the antidote elements to the fire.

We had came nearer to the lagoon where the bird inhabit. My friend came nearer the place but I choose to stay behind hiding under the rock for safety reason.

Then suddenly one of the bird saw my friend. It fly in great flame toward my friend trying to attack him by burning but before the Phoenix bird can reach him, my friend shot his arrow and hit it.

The Phoenix  was hit hard and caught by his own fire and exploded in mid-air. One shot of flame hit the hair of my friend. He ran toward my position. Together we run as the flaming bird flew away from the lagoon.

At early morning, we search the remains of Phoenix and we saw burnt bones of the bird. I kept to myself the burn skeleton of wings and my friend kept with him all the remains.

Days later my friend got sick and became insane.
The shaman told him that his brain was cooked by the radiant  flame of the bird and he has no cure on it.

How to make and use Modern Tandok suction for saving lives from snake bites and venom of wild insects like hornet, spider and scorpion.

Retold from the practice of 21st Century shamans of the Philippines.

Materials

1. Carabao horn from matured beast.
2. Beeswax or plastic clay
3. Shaving razor blade - new and never been used.
4. Rubber bandage

Cut the tip of the horn 2 to 3 inches long. See to it if it was completely hollow.
Drill a small hole on, it the size of a hairpin.
Make at least a pair of the tandok.

How to use.

1. When bitten by  snake or venomous insect and have no access to anti-venom serum, immediately slit a skin deep wound on the punctured bitten area.

2. Put a tandok suction on it and suck the hole of its air. After it vacuumed the air inside and the tandok began to suck the flesh sealed it with wax or clay. See if the tandok will hold and stay sucking. If not, suck the air again.

3. Two inches away with direction toward the head make another skin deep slit  on the area. Put again another tandok in place.

4. If there are no more tandok to use, simply slit the area in upward pattern with two inches interval up to ten inches in length.

WARNING.

The process involved, using the tandok make the blood that carries the venom to partially ooze outward the poison thereby lessening its deadly power but not totally eliminating the venom.

SEEK MEDICAL HELP  immediately after the tandok first aid process.

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The Pioneer American Teacher's Colony, a novel and a Palanca Award entry 2013. A story about American pioneer teacher in Ibajay, Aklan against the backdrop of supernatural occurrence.

From the author's experience.

After I had finished my novel a 343-page manuscript about an American teacher in Ibajay assigned in 1902, I wanted it to be entered into the contest.

I lived in the farm and in order to finance the endeavor needed in printing of the manuscript that cost 5 pesos per page, and photocopy of 3 copies of each page plus the delivery service, I found it too costly for me to send my entry. Anyway I had sent it and it was painful for me to lost my two young goats to nothing. I lost the contest. as well as the female goats that I sold to finance it. It should have kids by now if I didn't dream of winning.

I wondered how it lost. Maybe out of technicalities or unconvincing story line that didn't even illicit a comment from a judge. Anyway, the novel was already written and maybe it will took more years to see it in print or maybe garnering awards, who knows.

I just give myself a solace by reminding myself that today's greatest painter had not sold any of his great work on his lifetime.

The story revolves around the American teacher who traced  that his bloodline came from a native tribe who descended from supernatural race.