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> She also worked the fields until she died (96) and people thought her strength at that age was really odd.
I'd say it was because of diet and exercise :/
> It might seem silly but at that age, I really thought several women in our area possessed the 'power' or 'gahum'.
Where I lived, they said the same thing about the PBMA: people were afraid of them because of stories about human sacrifice or something that were never really proven, but they'd still send for a PBMA member if they had a toothache or needed a massage. The witch stories were mostly to scare little kids about staying out too late at night but I never really met anybody who was actually claimed to be one. I read this book in my Colonial Latin American history class last year. While it's about Guatemala and not the Philippines, I think it might interest you to see the comparisons it brings up about how witches and sorcerers were regarded in New Spain by locals, Spaniards and the Inquisition.
Sorry to hear about your grandma, though... It sounds like she was a pretty interesting lady.