Indigenous Knowledge in Gabut Norte, Badoc, Ilocos Norte

INDIGENOUS
KNOWLEDGE IN
GABUT NORTE, BADOC,
ILOCOS NORTE
BELIEF
• NEVER
LET A BLACK
CAT CROSS YOUR PATH
• IT IS A SIGN
OF BAD
LUCK, THE PERSON
SHOULD GO THE
OTHER WAY TO AVOID
THE BAD LUCK.
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
• Often when a person passed away from fever or a baby died
mysteriously in the night, they’d find a cat perched on their chest
or in the crib staring into their face, and the logical assumption
was made that cats were bringers of death that could suck the very
life from your body. And as far as the color black is concerned it
is usually associated with evil.
• Catshave always had a few habits that have a tendency freak
people right out. They like to seek sources of warmth and have an
odd fascination with examining human faces.
BELIEF
• NEVER WALK UNDER A
LADDER
• IT IS A SIGNOF BAD LUCK,
AND IT IS IF A TOOL FALLS
ON YOUR HEAD OR IF YOU
DISLOCATE THE LADDER
AND THE PERSON ON THE
LADDER FALLS DOWN.
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
• FMOST
PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO WALK UNDER A LADDER
BECAUSE IT IS UNSAFE, IF A LADDER IS UP THE CHANCES OF
ARE SOMEONE’S STANDING ON IT, WORKING AND YOUDON’T
WANT TO TAKE THE CHANCE OF SOMETHING FALLING ON TOP
OF THE HEAD. NOR RISKING JOSTLING THE LADDER AND
KNOECKING SOMEONE OR SOMETHING DOWN.
• ONETHEORY – CHRISTIAN BELIEF IN THE HOLY TRINITY –
SINCE A LADDER LEANING AGAINST A WALL FORMS A
TRIANGLE, “BREAKING” THE TRIANGLE WAS BLASPHEMOUS.
• SCIENTIFICALLY
SPEAKING, DUE TO GRAVITY
WHEN A PERSON IS WALKING UNDERNEATH AN
OBJECT(LADDER) THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT
THE MOVEMENT MAY CAUSE A REACTION TO
THE OBJECT TO MOVE, WHERE AN OBJECT
ABOVE THE SAID OBJECT WILL ALSO BE
AFFECTED DUE TO GRAVITY.
BELIEF
• DON’T BATHE
JUST AFTER
HAVING MEALS
• BATHING AFTER
HAVING A
MEAL MAY CAUSE HARM
TO THE BODY ESPECIALLY
THE STOMACH OR BELLY.
• SOMEPEOPLE DO THIS BUT
IT DOESN’T AFFECT THEM
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
• SCIENTIFICALLY
SPEAKING, WHILE BATHING, THE
BODY COOLD DOWN DUE TO THE COLD WATER
FALLING ON THE BODY. WHEN THIS HAPPENS, BLOOD
CIRCULATION INCREASES, TO MAINTAIN THE BODY
TEMPERATURE.
• NOW,WHILE DIGESTION, THE BLOOD FLOW AND BRAIN
IS ALREADY ENGAGED IN A TASK.
• THUS INTERFERING WITH THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.
BELIEF
• PREDICTING THE GENDER
OF A BABY WAS DONE BY
SUSPENDING THE
WEDDING RINGOVER THE
BELLY OF THE PREGNANT
WOMAN. IF IT SWUNG IN
A CIRCLE, THE BABY WAS
A GIRL, IF IN A VERTICAL
LINE, THE BABY IS A BOY.
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
• IN
1999, SCIENTISTS OF JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC
HEALTH ASKED 104 PREGNANT WOMEN TO PREDICT THE
GENDER OF THEIR UNBORN BABIES, USING WHATEVER
METHOD THEY PREFFERED – THE RING TEST, OTHER
FOLKLORE, OR DREAMS AND HUNCHES.
• THEWOMEN HAD A 55 % SUCCESS RATE, WHICH IS THE SAME
AS TAKING A WILD GUESS.
• IT
SEEMS THE RING TEST, AND OTHERS LIKE IT, DON’T REALLY
PREDICT ANYTHING
SOURCE: JOHNS HOPKINS

SCIENTIFIC WAY OF PREDICTING THE GENDER OF AN
UNBORN BABY THROUGH LOOKING UP TO SOME SIGNS
LIKE:
IF A GIRL: IF A BOY:
1. SUFFERING FROM HYPEREMESIS 1. LIVING WITH THE BABY’S DAD
GRAVIDARUM (NAUSEA OR VOMITING)
2. EATING HIGH-CALORIE DIET AT
2. PREGNANT WOMEN ARE EXTRA- THE TIME OF CONCEPTION
FORGETFUL DURING PREGNANCY
3. UNDER A LOT OF STRESS 3. EATING MORE DURING
PREGNANCY
4. YOUR BABY IS BREECH ( PAST 32
WEEKS PREGNANT ANF THE BABY IS 4. REVOLTED BY FORMERLY
STILL STUBBORNLY BOTTOM-DOWN, FAVORITE FOODS
HEAD UP? RESEARCH HAS FOUND THAT
BREECH BABIES TEND TO BE GIRLS 5. DEVELOP GESTATIONAL DIABETES
MORE OFTEN THAN BOYS.)
BELIEF
• KNOCK ON WOOD THREE TIMES IF
YOU SAY SOMETHING POSITIVE SO AS
NIT JINX YOURSELF.
• AN APOTROPAIC TRADITION OF
LITERALLY TOUCHING, TAPPING, OR
KNOCKING ON WOOD, OR MERELY
STATING THAT NONE IS DOING OR
INTENDING TO DO SO
• IN ORDER TO AVOID “TEMPTING FATE”
AFTER MAKING A FAVORABLE
PREDICTION OR BOAST, OR A
DECLARATION CONCERNING ONE’S
OWN DEATH OR ANOTHER
UNFAVORABLE SITUATION.
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE
• KNOCKING ON WOOD MAY NOT ACTUALLY PREVENT A BAD
THING FROM HAPPENING, BUT IT DOES NOT DO A GOOD JOB OF
LESSENING OUR ELEVATED FEARS
• “OUR FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT NOT ALL ACTIONS TO UNDO A
JINX ARE EQUALLY EFFECTIVE. INSTEAD, WE FIND THAT
AVOIDANT ACTIONS THAT EXERT FORCE AWAY FROM ONE’S
PRESENTATION OF SELF ARE ESPECIALLY EFFECTIVE FOR
REDUCING THE ANTICIPATED NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES
FOLLOWING A JINX”
SOURCE: JANE RISEN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE AT UNIVERSITY
OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF
BUSINESS

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