My ‘Out-of-this-World’ Experience No. 26

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. 26: 
“The Curse Upon Her”
(Shared by Mark Franklin M. Sanchez <markfranklin.sanchez@gmail.com>)

Mothers have always played a very big part in everyone’s life. When we are hurt, our mother hurts more. When we cry, our mothers cry deep inside. But how would you feel if your mother is hurting?? For me, the one I’m going to share will tell you how hurt I am when I found out that my mother became a victim of pangkukulam or witchcraft.

The Sharer with his Mother!

There is a different level or type of Pangkukulam. This one I’m going to share is called Pambabarang. From the Visayan word barang which means “malign sorcery or witchcraft” (1). This form usually uses and summons insects and objects. These can be transferred to a subject through a ritual which a Mambabarang performs. 
Here’s where my story begins. Two years ago, my mother suffered a very unusual and unexplainable ill. She vomits, suffers severe migraine and writhe about his stomach pain.  We had her checked by the doctor and even tried different laboratory tests. To our surprise, everything was fine in her body.  It’s then when my older sister consulted an “Albularyo” to help our mother.  They brought them there, but I refused to since I don’t believe to that supernatural phenomenon. My sister told me that the “Albularyo” saw three nails on her head and five cockroaches in her stomach which may have caused what she was feeling. This nails and cockroaches were put by a Mambabarang. The cause of this event was all envy. The person who hexed our Mother was envy of the attention she is getting.  That’s how powerful envy is. To ease the pain and reverse the hex put by the Mambabarang to my mother, my sisters were tasked by the Albularyo to light up a candle in Quirino Province which they eventually did. But then I refused to believe any of these events. I don’t believe of the nails and cockroaches. I don’t believe with the Albularyo. And certainly, I DON’T BELIEVE IN MAMBABARANG. 
After they’ve finished the task of the Albularyo, nothing was changed with my Mother. So, they’ve decided to go back to the Albularyo. The Albularyo told them that the things they’ve done was nothing if one of the family members refused to believe on this. Eventually, that was ME.  My sisters called and asked me to believe of what’s supposed to be supernatural happening to our mother.   I then stopped and thought of all the happenstance. I realized, that the things the Albularyo told were never a coincidence; the nails on her head which may have caused the severe migraine, the cockroaches on her stomach that may have inflict the severe stomach pain and certainly the normal results we got in every laboratory tests we’ve done. So, I have to believe, I should believe, just to finish the agony of my mother. 
After a day, all my mother’s ill was gone. She felt good and we were all relieved. And we then figured out that the Mambabarang which the Albularyo was talking about was the old man living in front of our house who just vanished after two days.  He was very envious of my mother because of her status in our community so he used his supernatural ability to get even with my mother. 
It is really strange that at this era of life, peculiar things such as Pambabarang and Witchcraft still exists. Impossible but it happened to me!

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barang_%28Visayan_word%29