A raid upon the place resulted in the capture of twenty chiefs, gorgeously uniformed, with gaudy anting-anting amulets on their breasts to protect them from American bullets.
The mob of both sexes told the townspeople that they (the rioters) had nothing to fear, as anting-anting wafers (q.
Maáyung anting-anting ang tangu sa buáya, A crocodile’s tooth is a powerful charm.
Naghábak siya ug anting-anting arun dì siya madutlan sa bála, He is wearing an amulet so that bullets cannot penetrate him.
Nor did anting anting avail Aguinaldo who now probably believes far more in the protection of his American prison than in that offered by his anting anting charms.
Their faith in what they call their anting anting [30] is unbreakable.
In a word amulets or anting-anting against everything.
A parish priest of a pueblo in a neighboring province once related to me the discovery of one such an anting-anting in his church.
In all probability Buencamino carried some anting-anting with him to Washington to protect him from assassination or from .
For a description of anting-anting see appendix D.
Anting-anting is also found in other forms, sometimes merely a strip of paper bearing some inscription, and which receives its virtue from some action performed over it, such as the saying of the mass whilst the paper is on the altar.
The Anting-Anting of Manuelito The Anting-Anting is a stone or other small object covered with cabalistic inscriptions.
It was wrapped in silk and hung by a string from the robber's neck, and even if a gun were fired within a few feet of him the Anting-Anting was sure to turn the bullet in another direction.
Fixed firmly in the center of the Anting-Anting was a silver bullet.
Instead of running from these fierce little fighters, he decided to meet them, and many people offered to help him, believing that the Anting-Anting would turn away all bullets and give them victory.
The people, however, did not believe that Manuelito could be killed, for he wore on his breast a famous Anting-Anting that he had received from Mangagauay, the giver of life and death.
The Anting-Anting must not be confused, however, with the scapular, a purely religious symbol worn by a great number of the Christian Filipinos.
Manuelito would stand in the town plaza and allow his men to shoot at him, and each time the Anting-Anting would turn aside the bullets.
This was on the 10th October, on which day Sir Hope Grant sent a demand to the Chinese authorities that unless the Anting gate was surrendered by the 13th, or in three days' time, the city would be bombarded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
