The Office for Transportation Security (OTS) has reminded travelers and the general public to refrain from bringing bullets as amulets, known locally as "anting-anting," to the country's airports. The ...

Reader Lawrence Gonzaga sent in the following timely query: “With the recent celebration of the Chinese New Year, so many different charms, amulets and trinkets have proliferated in the market. And ...

Belief in anting-anting (amulets), elementals (e.g. elves, kapre, fairies, etc.) and oracion (i.e. magical words) is part of the esoteric or mystical culture of the Philippines. An international ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Filipino tradition of the “anting-anting” (talisman or amulet) is celebrated in an exhibit at the prestigious Quai Branly Museum in France. An anting-anting is believed to ...

An exhibit of agimat and anting-anting—amulets and talismans used by the inhabitants of these islands way before the arrival of the Spaniards—is currently on display at Yuchengco Museum in Makati City ...

SOLITA MONSOD has a commonsensical suggestion to the authorities who seem to be at their wits’ end about what to do with airline passengers caught with bullets/amulets in their checked-in luggage or ...

DANAO, Bohol — A suspected drug pusher who apparently brought his “anting-anting (amulet)” to work was killed during a buy-bust operation with police on Monday. PO3 Felix Saldivar, investigator of ...

ONE of the more interesting traditions that some people in Cavite province follow during Holy Week involves something that the place is relatively known for: amulets or talismans, more popularly known ...

Filipino curator Floy Quintos (left) and Ambassador Ma. Theresa P. Lazaro at the entrance of the Anting-Anting exhibition in Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac PARIS—Six years after the historic ...