From the oral account of Elmer Sabado of Luna, Umingan, Pangasinan.
The most potent tandok shaman is the one who have an inborn power of a snake. I have a town mate with talisman who can cure snake bites through tandok and even with his saliva.
Venomous snakes love to dwell on the plantations of squash because its huge leaves make the ground cool and dark. One farmer was bitten by a cobra in our village at his squash plantation.
It was a deadly bite because it strike at the blood artery of his leg and poison travel fast as the blood circulates. He was found bluish and violet all over his face and gasping for breath. He was dying after few minutes of being bitten.
He was brought to the shaman and tandok horns made to suck on his face and neck and on his head with the hair shaven. But tandok could not save him for the poison already paralyzed his nerves and muscles. Soon his heart will stop beating if not remedied.
The shaman knew that the only antidote is his saliva. He prayed and cough hard sucking a dried saliva from his throat and he placed it on the wound and on the crown of the head.
Miraculously, the man was cured for the poison was neutralized by his saliva.
They said that the man has a twin snake when born and the anti-venom saliva was developed inside his body when he was still inside the womb together with his snake twin brother.
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