Word: siquijor
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...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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