Santigwar or (Pagtatawas)

Santigwar (PAGTATAWAS)

It is  a  ritual where a  healer  used aluminum plate and candle  to interpret the form produce in  a plate from  a lighted candle.

           

Lola Ange Goyal Gernale

            

Lola ange  Goyal Gernale is a residence of  lahong Bulan Sosogon she is already  59 years old. She was  famous faith  healer. She started to become a faith healer way back in 1992 together with her two sisters, osay  who also known as Sta lourdes and Ema, also a faith healer. However, as time passed by, they parted ways due to some misunderstanding. Lola osay went to  Samar to continue her faith healing away from his sisters, while lola ange and lola ema stayed together. During that time lola ema was possessed by the holly spirit of St. Lourdes that's why they decided to build a mini –chapel to start their faith healing activities. 

Until now they continue to cure their fellow Bulanenos.Theyserve their community specially those less privilege people who can’t afford  to send their patient to the hospitals, with their God-given talent and faith in God they can cure those the  illnesses more than medicines can do. Lola ange used was in healing such as hilot,himagat and santigwar or pagtatawas.

 Mateials used in santigwar or pagtatawas

  oil plate

                             candle

The process  of pagtatawas

The faith healer whispered with prayers (bulong) in the forehead of the patient then sign a "crossed" after that she prepared a plate with an special oil made from the roots of different herbs. Then, she dump it the candle and with the “spell” she performed for the so called pagtatawas or santigwar, through the used of the plate and  lighted candle  she will see the cause of the sickness that patient 

had .