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

• Main Author: Dizon, Mark; Ateneo
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2015
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/phstudies/vol63/iss1/2; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/phstudies/article/4063/viewcontent/6194.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In common usage and in psychology sumpong is considered a deviant and irrational behavior. Thisarticle 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, a...