Old Belief
← Bakunawa
Villagers outdoors at night striking pots and drums, faces turned upward

pots and drums at the eclipse

The response to an eclipse was noise: people went outside and beat pots, drums and metal to make the creature let go of the moon. Some accounts have music played to lull it to sleep instead.

Basis: Visayan eclipse practice; Ortiz 1731 via Zúñiga 1893 · AI-generated

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