{"id":3645,"date":"2015-04-02T17:08:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2015-04-02T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:08:44","slug":"philippine-witchcraft-mangkukulam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3645","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Witchcraft: MANGKUKULAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capiz and Antique, Philippines, belief in magic is very much alive. <em>Kulam<\/em> is a form of Filipino witchcraft, with practitioners called mangkukulam. These sorceresses are believed to perform black magic. Using practices similar to voodoo, the mangkukulam cast spells and incantations intended to bring harm to others. However, the mangkukulam (which can be either men or women) aren\u2019t only self-serving: They oftentimes sell love potions and services to help patrons exact revenge on those who have wronged them. So make sure you don\u2019t get on their bad side!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capiz and Antique, Philippines, belief in magic is very much alive. Kulam is a form of Filipino witchcraft, with practitioners called mangkukulam. These sorceresses are believed to perform black magic. Using practices similar to voodoo, the mangkukulam cast spells and incantations intended to bring harm to others. However, the mangkukulam (which can be either men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}