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BLACK MAGIC MARY Siquijor Island is one spooky place. It's riddled with abandoned churches and unexplored caves and known throughout the Philippines for its black magic and mangkukulam, or traditional healers. The real hair-raiser is a statue of the Virgin Mary in the village of Maria, a winding 15-km drive through the mountains from the main port of Larena. In her right hand she clutches a skull and in her left an inverted crucifix. Leave before dark: word is she's a nightwalker...
...Moriones Festivals on Marinduque Island, south of Manila. Visitors can join masked processions and passion plays over the weekend. The theme is un-Christian revenge: a mock-up of the head of Longinus, one of the centurions who guarded Christ, is paraded through the streets. Or try spooky Siquijor Island, south of Cebu. Long a center for paganism and magic, the island attracts numerous witches on Good Friday who gather to brew and administer love potions, supposedly most potent on the godless day of Christ's death...
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