Comments for Duwende: Page 1

Actually we DO have this sort of thing going on in the United States as well as all over the world!
I search for news stories involving 'Little People' and I find stories, not a vast amount, but not just personal stuff, but stuff that makes the major news.
Several years ago when I was in my early 40's I saw a gnome or some such, appear before me, up in a laurel bush, and I had a classic panic attack. I ran screaming and babbling. I guess it was too much for my traditional upbringing, but I wish I had behaved better.
I have come across articles in the Filipino Newspapers that tell about people that are believed to possessed by fairies, and these cases are taken very seriously, as seriously as a case of snakebite would be taken here in the US. Professional people involved, such as teachers and Priest call the correct person to deal with the possession, and there is proscribed remedy.
In my childhood, up in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina, I heard stories of little people, and how they would help a lost traveler, or if they didn't like you they would 'rock you'--throw rocks at you.
These mountains were settled by Dutch and Scottish people, in my area, which is the western north Carolina border where it meets Georgia. It was not until I was adult and computer savvy that I searched and found that these little people were the Nunnehi--and were talked of in Cherokee lore. There is a big Fairy Fort at a Place called Blood Mountain in Georgia, near to my area, and the Mountain I lived under was called Chunky Gal, and that name was a derivative of the Indian name, which was called after some kind of Ball Ground, where the Nunnehi's used to play their ball games.
The Place name of where I was born is a translation of a Nunnehi word. Shooting Creek, it is, or 'Place where water makes loud popping sounds'. And I do know now that the Cherokees are not the only American Indians that have 'fairy myths'.

I leave you with this little news blurb. Follow the link and it will lead you to an Albuquerque major television news cast about this event. This bishop was a Navajo, and very connected still with the reservation. Notice that in the story ARTIFACTS are involved.

Link is
Http:www.thedenverchannel.com/news/17058/detail.html
Happy hunting, plenty of news out there. And for fun look up youtube, leprechaun in mobile Alabama, and Jamie Lynn and Kevin see a Leprechaun.

i grew up in the philippines and left to live in australia when I was 4. I have and believe in this story cause it happened to a family friend of my family's. Her eldest son was taken by the Duwende's. He was a musican and always played his music whenever they played. His mother was visited by the witch doctor and warned her to tell her son to stop, but being so stubbourn he didn't listen and kept doing it. Then one day while waiting for his band to show up, he disappeared. The witch doctor informed my tita (aunty) that he had been taken and is now stuck in their relm. Since hearing that story, even in australia while walking in any sort of bushlan I still say "tabi tabi po nuno" just to be on the safe side.

Having grown up in the Philippines myself, I believe this story. This is not at all new in our culture, in fact, I have seen and do have possession of pictures of relatives who have "duwendes" in them.

These elementals are REAL.

My best friend & I had an encounter with a "duwende" so I can I say I do believe you.

In my part, I am not sure if it was a dwarf whom I encountered, it was 10 years ago. Though I still remember the tiny laughs I hear always outside the window of my room and the tiny shadow I saw, when I was still living in the philippines. Yet I did not bother figuring out what it is really.

In my best friend's part, her grandma was the one telling me how she used to talk to someone everytime she sits on their backyard, under a mango tree. I remember Lola (grandma in english) sayin, "She told me not to go there because the "dewendes" hates me, yet I did. So, when I went, I tripped and twisted my ankle."

I've a comment I posted on jeffthefish's site instead... Coz it was somewhat an answer to his comment here...😳

I'm not sure he's going to approve but if he does... Here's where you can find it 😊

http://jeffthefish.com/2008/03/14/this-is-where-the-skepticism-drops/#comment-541

I believe your story because I am born in philippines too... Maybe some people who are born in other may not believe you soo make your story believevable 😁

Intresting. I love the fact that different cultures have different practices when it comes to things like this. I can't say in the united states we have had any thing like that going on, but still wonderful tale. It sounds too interesting and weird to be true.

~OG ❤

I do not believe this story, and I have laid out my reasons at http://jeffthefish.com/2008/03/14/this-is-where-the-skepticism-drops/

What a wonderful tale! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderfcul story with us. I am abolutely fascinated by differing cultures and beliefs. Thank God that your Aunt and your Father had the sendse to get you the help that you needed.

God Bless!

Our neighborhood had the same experience as you but it is some quite different than your "saway-saway"(Curse of the dwende). We live in a compound in Zamboanga and huge trees or "balete" of what we call them stood everywhere in our compound. One afternoon in around 5:00 pm there was a boy who's playing around a huge tree with his sister. Hours later, the boy went missing and some of the neighbors volunteered to look for the missing boy, the search went for hours and they almost lost their hope in finding the boy. Then one of them saw the little boy was lying on the ground facing on the empty sky with his eyes widely open. The weird thing was all of them looked on that spot several times but no one saw him and the one who found him didn't use a flashlight but a candle. The elders told us that the "A'poo" or Dwende are playing with the boy. I'm not sure if the A'poo really did something with that boy but one thing for sure that A'poo live with us in our compound.

I've seen this story in movies. I'm not so sure if I'll believe in it or not...It's like a fantasy.

Wow,,,, I believe you... Cool... I love your story... How old are you now anyway? Jesse_icechocol8 [at] hotmail.com