In Maguindanao culture (as observed in the 1970s), the matua paganai (old folks in the past) prohibited groups from reciting riddles at night because they believed evil spirits will join the session and will try to harm participants if they were not able to correctly answer the spirit’s riddle.
This belief is also shared by Bagobos, as E. Arsenio Manuel once wrote:
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These are now (or rather, during the time of the collection of data) regarded as superstitions. An Anthropological...
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pethics said:
Like our own versions of Sphinxes and Gollum. Fascinating.
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