“No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the country and its strange peoples, now gives us a collection of simple yet wonderful stories which bring them before us with dramatic vividness… Strangest, perhaps, of all these possibilities for fiction is the ‘anting-anting’, at once a mysterious power to protect its possessor and the outward symbol of the protection…” – Summary from the Foreword     [chương_files]