While in exile in Dapitan Rizal wrote, what is said to be the first psychologica...

While in exile in Dapitan Rizal wrote, what is said to be the first psychological essay in the Philippines, "On the cure of the bewitched" a monograph on the mangkukulam. It comes with some drawings like this depicting a woman doubled up in pain saying' Jesus! naglalata aco cun ano pa man ang nasa loob asuang yata." Rizal interviewed mangkukulam and herbolarios to understand their work and cure victims.


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