NORTH COTABATO – A septuagenarian woman was repeatedly stabbed and brutally killed after neighbors mistook her for a ghoul in Magpet town in the southern Philippine province of North Cotabato, police said Monday.
Police said it launched a manhunt for the killers of 75-year old Victoria Saavedra, who was found dead inside her house in the village of Bagumbayan. It said the widow, who was left alone by her daughter, had been suffering from a mental disease. She was killed on the night of November 17.
The local police chief, Captain Rolando Dillera, Jr, said the woman suffered at least 16 stab wounds in the chest. Dillera said they have several “persons of interest” but he did not disclose details of their investigation. The woman’s family is demanding justice for the killing of Saavedra.
Many Filipinos are traditionally superstitious and would believe on anything, especially in the provinces where tales about ghouls, dwarfs, demons and even angels and gods are taken seriously and often associated with the paranormal and folklore, and legends.
And these superstitious beliefs are often used by some television producers to draw commercial advertisements and eventually helped spread the fear of the unknown arising from ignorance of the people. (Rhoderick Beñez)
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