anito

Now, with their new religious ideas, the Tagáls apply the term anito to any superstition, false worship, idol, etc.

History of the Philippine Islands Antonio de Morga 1597

They had idols in their houses, called anito, and by the Visayans, diuata.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Since the anito is the cause of all bodily afflictions the chief function of the person who battles for the health of the afflicted is that of the exorcist, rather than that of the therapeutist.

The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911

Among these women, one who was a leader claimed that her anito was a very close friend of the anito of the Christians and had descended to the earth from heaven.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

[Stanley does not translate this paragraph of the text.] [329] It appears that the natives called anito a tutelary genius, either of the family, or extraneous to it.

History of the Philippine Islands Antonio de Morga 1597

Where troubled with conceptions of "anito" or "diwata" it is almost certain that he has been learning at the feet of some demon-worshipping Malayan.

The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon David Prescott Barrows 1913

They closed the old man's eyes, washed his body and on it put the blue burial robe with the white "anito" figures woven in it as a stripe.

The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911

The ko'-mis is built along all Bontoc war trails, though no others are known having the "anito" heads.

The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911

Two men in Sabangan and one each in Genugan and Takong -- all western pueblos -- manufacture metal "anito" pipes.

The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911

"anito" pipe puts days of toil on the metal, smoothing and perfecting it by cleaning and digging out the design until it becomes really a beautiful bit of primitive art.

The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911