Have you ever had experience a phenomenon that cannot be explained no matter how you tried to understand it? Are you familiar with the phrase ‘beyond one’s imagination or understanding’? If you have this some sort of experience that makes you feel that hair-raising/eerie or déjà vu feeling, please share through email message to merlinagp@gmail.com. It is my pleasure to post your experience in this Blog. Let the circle of sharing begins.
Experience No. 11: “The Big Tree”
(Shared by Reyne June Bawisan <junebawisan@yahoo.com>)
The story about the Tree,
Note: I was just 9 years old when this happened to me.
(Shared by Reyne June Bawisan <junebawisan@yahoo.com>)
We’re in the jungle.
Greens, tall grasses, colorful wild flowers, and big trees, these all we can see.
It’s a paradise for all of us who hunt spiders for derby.
We have empty matchboxes divided into compartments
using coconut leaves to separate each of the spiders we caught.
I’ve already got three, others got more than I thought.
I don’t want to go any farther, the jungle gets deep, shrubs turn thick, big trees are many.
My heartbeat gets faster and pulse rate becomes quicker.
OMG, we’re already in front of a very big tree, known to everyone as the “Mysterious Tree”.
which was passed from one tongue to another is already a folklore to our community.
According to many, the Tree,
when gets angry to those who pass by without saying "tabi-tabi po" (excuse me) will get sick.
As I recall the story, the surrounding felt so creepy,
I ran off the tree, leaving others behind me.
Oh no! I forgot to say excuse me!
As I returned home, my sister asked what happened to me as what she can see,
I looked so terribly.
I told her, we have reached the “Big Tree” and I forgot to say excuse me.
She pushed me to go back to the "Big Tree" to say sorry for not saying excuse me.
I refused, I was so scared, I don’t want to go back to the tree.
Three days had passed, nothing happened to me, the story is untrue.
Four days…5 days…6 days, I am still okay.
On the 7th day, I’m freezing, I’m hot, I’m sick.
I’ve got rashes around my waist.
Rashes turned burn-like skin with fluid inside.
Some had erupted, while others had just sprouted.
It’s too hot, I can feel the smarting pain.
It’s the “Big Tree” my sister said to me.
I requested her to bring me to the health practitioner,
but she said, “let’s go to the faith healer”.
The faith healer instructed us to go back to the “Big Tree”
bring my used cloth to offer to the tree.
Offer some prayers and say sorry for not saying excuse me, she added.
After 7 days, according to the faith healer, my rashes will disappear.
She was right, I am healed, the spots are gone!
It’s a great new day to have another fun!
It’s the Big Tree, which made me feel so sorry.
But now, I’m free from the spots made by the tree.
Impossible but it happened to me!
Note: I was just 9 years old when this happened to me.
67 comments:
Nice composition! I haven't experience one like this but i always see to it to do the "tabi tabi po" when passing a creepy tree, shrub or even a small mountain like soil formation(nuno sa punso) so as to avoid some bad things that might happen. Better be safe than sorry :)
Illnesses that cannot be cured by doctors are often believed to be caused by beings from another dimension. In most cases, 'albularyos' successfully heal patients through unorthodox methods.
in the province, i always utter tabi tabi po whenever passing by in the stream or any form of bodies of water, also when passing through a woody area especially at night..
Karaniwan may nakatirang maligno o engkanto sa malalaking puno.
Tama, better be safe than sorry kaya laging mag 'tabi tabi'.
Naku matindi ang punong yan sir masyadong sensitive hehehe
never had such experience but i learned to say "tabi-tabi po" from my grandmother in respect to unseen creatures living in big trees and woody areas.
iwas iwas tayo sa malalaking puno.. dami talaga ng ganyang pangyayari sa probinsya..
Very creative way of telling a story.
Totoo naman talagang nangyayari yan, kasi kahit ako nagta- tabi tabi din dahil sa kasabihan ng matatanda.
Wala namang mawawala kung magpapasintabi tayo pag napapadaan sa malalaking puno
Similar to my father's story...
Baka naman talagang magkakasakit ka that time at nataon lang na napadaan ka din sa puno.
naisip ko lang mahilig talaga sila sa mga puno .. d ba?
c/o udd-mis jomar
ibig sabihin nito hindi lang tayo ang naninirahan dito sa mundo. marami tayong kasama kaya respeto sa bawat isa,nakikita man o hindi.
fascinating! ayoko ma experience yan, for sure...
c/o udd-mis enry
nyaaaa! katakot!
tabi tabi po.. makikiraan lang po...
I appreciate the way the author convey his experience through poetry and since it's executed well, i understood his supernatural encounters. In addition, we also say tabi tabi po when crossing a bridge because the locals said that the spirit lurking around for a very long timw will cause harm or worse, death
that's true. back when i was in the province, umuhi ako sa tree hindi po ko nagtabi tabi po. tapos anyare para kong sinumpa.namaga po yung sakin tapos lumake.hangang ngayon di pa rin po ko humihingi ng tawad.baka po kasi lumiit uli eh.
ay naniniwala talaga ko sa ganan ,sa bukid may mga ganan talaga .dito lang naman sa manila di ganong naniniwala mga tao sa ganan ,di lang kase taung mga tao ang nakatira dito ,di lang naten sila nakikita pero nakakasama naten kaya kailangan din talaga taung magtabi tabi.
Simula ngayon mag "tatabi-tabi" na ako lagi.
Pareho pala tayo Tasyo. Di ko lang alam kung magkasing laki tayo.
Malamang John, ang epekto sayo, mangitim ka.
Kahit ano tlga madaanan mo sa probinsya, dapat magtabi-tabi po ka
Bastos kayo Tasyo at John.
He he he lagi din ako nagaganyan, nanununo.
mag-ingat tayo palagi..
kaya nga po i always pray at night...
si kuya robert nakakakita kaya naniniwala ako sa ganyan...
madami sa probinsya namin ng ganyan....
pray lang ...
sa probinsya po mas marami ang nagpapa albularyo kaysa doktor...
baka allergy po...
kung minsan kase pag nasa gubat ka maraming insekto o kaya airborne na sting galing sa mga kulisap... baka nagkataon lang po.
Baka nasaktan yung nakatira dun o kaya nasira ang bahay nila kaya dapat talagang mag-alay.
pray lang
c/o udd.mis ian
kung minsan kase pag nasa gubat ka maraming insekto o kaya airborne na sting galing sa mga kulisap... baka nagkataon lang po.
c/o udd.mis flor
Matindi pag nagalit ang nakatira sa puno, yung iba mas grabe ang sakit na ibinibigay sa kanila
Hmmm... baka Puno ng Galit yung nilalang na nakatira sa big tree?
Get it?
PUNO (Tree) ng Galit?
noy, mahirap na baka kung ano ang lumiit sa akin.... tabi-tabi po!
sa probinsya, mas maraming tao ang kumukonsulta sa mga "manggagamot"(albularyo)
ading, magdasal lang palagi para walang masamang mangyari
Hahaha. Nakakatawa yung mga hindi nagtabi tabi.
mabuti at magaling ang albularyo na tumingin sa 'yo, nalaman agad at nasabi ang dapat mong gawin....
Makata lang ang peg June???
Hmmm. Parang sa balete drive.
pasalamat ka pa at hindi malala ang nagyari sa iyo, red spots lang. ang iba naririnig ko, nababaliw at nawawala sa sarili
albularyo talaga ang inaasahan ng mga taga baryo. maraming mga kakaibang at hinde maipaliwanag na sakit na sila lang ang nakapagbibigay lunas.
madalas na paalala samin yan ng aming lola sa probinsya na magpasintabi lalo na sa mga unfamiliar places..
Dito sa Maynila mas gusto ng iba na may malaking puno...lalo na sa gabi..hahaha
pasintabi palagi kahit saan ako magpunta...wala namang masama.
The human mind is indeed very complex. The belief and fear of the myth could have caused your condition. Most probably, your mind subconsciously attracted what had happened to you before.
Kahit naman dito sa Manila nage-excuse me din ang ibang mga tao pag napapadaan sa maraming puno at halaman.
Pag nakakasagi kahit di sinasadya, pinaparusahan nila ang tao sa pamamagitan ng sakit.
Unfair kasi hindi natin sila nakikita pero tayo nakikita nila, tapos magagalit sila pag natamaan sila.
Wala tayong laban kasi sila ang may powers kaya mag tabi tabi na lang para safe.
c/o Rene Boy Henson UDD-MIS
Pag may biglang mga nararamdaman at nagkakasakit, sa albularyo ang takbo ng mga tao sa probinsya at halos lagi me engkantong involved.
Pag may biglang mga nararamdaman at nagkakasakit, sa albularyo ang takbo ng mga tao sa probinsya at halos lagi me engkantong involved.
c/o Ate Lgie UDD-MIS
Scary de-su!
that tree is a wicked tree.. maybe there are things that are cannot be explain.. so beware on them and respect....
Scary de-su!
c/o Lirio Geronimo UDD-MIS
Hindi nagagamot ng mga doktor ang sakit na galing sa engkanto kaya yung ibang hindi naniniwala ikinamamatay nila ito.
c/o Rene Boy Henson UDD-MIS
The human mind is indeed very complex. The belief and fear of the myth could have caused your condition. Most probably, your mind subconsciously attracted what had happened to you before.
c/o KCee de Guzman UDD-MIS
Marami ng nangyari na natamaan mga duwende tapos lalabas pag tinawas yung image sa tubig na pinatakan ng kandila. Kailangan mag alay at mag-sorry para gumaling ang nagpapagamot.
c/o Rene Boy Henson UDD-MIS
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