Sumpong: Spirit Beliefs, Murder, and Religious Change among Eighteenth-Century Aeta and Ilongot in Eastern Central Luzon

• Main Author: Dizon, Mark
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2015
• Subjects: animism; emotions; headhunting; Christianity; conversion; History; History of Religion; Indigenous Studies; Psychology; Religion
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/61; https://muse.jhu.edu/article/575793
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In common usage and in psychology sumpong is considered a deviant and irrational behavior. This article makes sense of sumpong by putting it in the historical context of animism, specifically that of the eighteenth-century Aeta and Ilongot of eastern Central Luzon. As a form of perception, feeling,...