TABUK CITY, KALINGA - Classes at the Tabuk National High School (TNHS) were suspended on January 22 and 23 when at least 20 students were possessed by spirits who claimed they were dislocated by the construction of a new building in the school.
According to Principal Rodolfo Ballog, seven were seized on the first day and more than 10 on the second day.
Ballog said that the victims became hysterical and had extra strength as it took four to five students and teachers to hold and control each victim.
Ballog quoted the possessed students as saying that there were 15 spirits on the first day and 25 on the second day and that their common complaint was that their abode was disturbed when an old building on campus was demolished to give way to the new building.
“I am wondering because we butchered a pig and gave them their share before the groundbreaking for the new building,” Ballog said.
Ballog related that the spirits had many demands, foremost of which is that their bones should be relocated leading him to presume that the spirits were those of people buried in the old cemetery situated in the campus.
He said that the demand of the spirits is hard to comply with because the bones must have been scattered here and there when the ground of the school was bulldozed to level it many years ago.
“What if the bones are now under the buildings? What we should do now is try to appease them by complying with their other demands. We have already lighted candles at the bank of the Chico River as demanded by the spirit who calls herself Lorna. We did that twice,” Ballog said.
According to Tomrod Duclan, the first student who was possessed on the first day and was again victimized the second day and who his teachers say has a third eye, Lorna whom he described as a young woman in black dress and splattered with blood, had told him that she was raped and killed by three men on the banks of the Chico River.
Marilyn Galano, adviser of I Neptune, the class of Tomrod, said that Tomrod claimed Lorna first appeared to him on January 21 and that on the morning of December 19 when he opened the classroom - he is the key keeper - his hair stood on end because of the smell of menstrual blood.
Ballog said that they will also comply with the demand of the second wave of spirits for candles to be lighted, the feathers of a white native chicken burned and prayers uttered on the basketball court of the school at 3 PM of January 23.
“We will also request during the mass this Sunday that prayers be made for the eternal repose of the souls of all spirits who are still roaming around especially those who are staying at the TNHS. I believe that these are the spirits whom the priests say we should pray for. They are restless and they enter human bodies so they could communicate with the living. What is bad is that the students they entered suffered due to the physical exertion,” Ballog said.
Priests and pastors have gone to the school to pray during the first and second day but still the seizures continued.
Apart from Christian prayers and rites, Ballog said that the school also planned to employ the dawak, a Kalinga native way of driving bad spirits performed by a mandadawak (shaman) and involving the offering of an animal.
Ballog said that this is not the first case of spirit possession in TNHS because around 10 years ago, three students were also seized but that after a day, the attacks stopped. **By Estanislao Albano Jr., ZZW
According to Principal Rodolfo Ballog, seven were seized on the first day and more than 10 on the second day.
Ballog said that the victims became hysterical and had extra strength as it took four to five students and teachers to hold and control each victim.
Ballog quoted the possessed students as saying that there were 15 spirits on the first day and 25 on the second day and that their common complaint was that their abode was disturbed when an old building on campus was demolished to give way to the new building.
“I am wondering because we butchered a pig and gave them their share before the groundbreaking for the new building,” Ballog said.
Ballog related that the spirits had many demands, foremost of which is that their bones should be relocated leading him to presume that the spirits were those of people buried in the old cemetery situated in the campus.
He said that the demand of the spirits is hard to comply with because the bones must have been scattered here and there when the ground of the school was bulldozed to level it many years ago.
“What if the bones are now under the buildings? What we should do now is try to appease them by complying with their other demands. We have already lighted candles at the bank of the Chico River as demanded by the spirit who calls herself Lorna. We did that twice,” Ballog said.
According to Tomrod Duclan, the first student who was possessed on the first day and was again victimized the second day and who his teachers say has a third eye, Lorna whom he described as a young woman in black dress and splattered with blood, had told him that she was raped and killed by three men on the banks of the Chico River.
Marilyn Galano, adviser of I Neptune, the class of Tomrod, said that Tomrod claimed Lorna first appeared to him on January 21 and that on the morning of December 19 when he opened the classroom - he is the key keeper - his hair stood on end because of the smell of menstrual blood.
Ballog said that they will also comply with the demand of the second wave of spirits for candles to be lighted, the feathers of a white native chicken burned and prayers uttered on the basketball court of the school at 3 PM of January 23.
“We will also request during the mass this Sunday that prayers be made for the eternal repose of the souls of all spirits who are still roaming around especially those who are staying at the TNHS. I believe that these are the spirits whom the priests say we should pray for. They are restless and they enter human bodies so they could communicate with the living. What is bad is that the students they entered suffered due to the physical exertion,” Ballog said.
Priests and pastors have gone to the school to pray during the first and second day but still the seizures continued.
Apart from Christian prayers and rites, Ballog said that the school also planned to employ the dawak, a Kalinga native way of driving bad spirits performed by a mandadawak (shaman) and involving the offering of an animal.
Ballog said that this is not the first case of spirit possession in TNHS because around 10 years ago, three students were also seized but that after a day, the attacks stopped. **By Estanislao Albano Jr., ZZW
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