October 23, 2026

Tabi-Tabi Po: What Is an Anting-Anting? The Amulets Filipinos Carried Into Battle

by Mika Soriano

Anting-anting, Filipino amulets believed to offer supernatural protection, have long been associated with faith, folklore, and historical struggles, including accounts of revolutionaries wearing prayer-marked shirts to protect themselves from bullets. Read more »

October 02, 2026

What Is a Sigbin? The Backward-Walking Beast of Visayan Folklore

by Mika Soriano

It walks backward with its head between its legs, drinks from shadows and, in some stories, hides inside a clay jar in a wealthy family’s home. Meet the sigbin, one of the Philippines’ strangest and most unsettling creatures of folklore. Read more »