In our village there is a stone house owned by a shaman. This person can cure ailments and infliction. He can also perform sorcery if someone can afford his prescribed fee. He lives alone in his house and when he goes out of town he simply left his door and windows open. He knew that no one will dare to come and enter his house for he had placed an unseen guards inside in it.
One of the guards is the soul of a person whose skull was kept by the shaman. Another guard is a nature demon from the mountain. Nobody dared to step inside his house. One time a thief ransacked it but this person was found crippled in front of his door- unable to stand and walked away from the scene, so he was caught.
But one time his grandson from nearby village visited him. The shaman was not there. The child has no knowledge about the guards of the house of his grandfather. Upon entering it the unseen guardians assaulted the child and made him crippled.
The shaman was out and away at that day. The next day he found his grandson on the verged of dying for he has fever and had been vomiting the whole night because of pain. His parents was not bothered to look for him for they knew he was in the care of his grandfather.
After that incident, the shaman terminated the unseen guards of his house.
From the oral account of Jose Seneres of Ibajay, Aklan, Philippines
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