Anting-Anting Stories

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Excerpt from Anting-Anting Stories: And Other Strange Tales of the FilipinosEastern islands in which the people of the United States are now so vitally interested opens to our literature a new field not less fresh and original than that which came to us when Mr. Kijling first published his Indian tales. India had always possessed its wonders and its remarkable types, but they waited long for ade quate exfression. No less wonderful and va ried are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare hnowledge of the country and its strange peoples, now gives us a collection of simple yet powerful stories which bring them before us with dramatic vividn ess.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.