Unseen entities and dealing with them

After six stitches and an X-ray, my sister was cleared to go home.  Arriving home, we talked about how it happened that her head was knocked on a stone.  She said it was as if someone pushed her that she slipped and it was also as if a force shoved her head onto the stone with the sharp edges on the ground.  Did she see anyone? No.  I told her neither did I saw someone when I passed by her sweeping nor did I see anyone when I came to her aid.  She was of course defensive and emphasized that she said it was only “as if” or “like” and not that someone shoved her.

My sister-in-law, who lives with us, said that there be could be someone unseen who did push my sister.  She pointed out the incident all of us witnessed when the laborers of a road being constructed placed lighted candles on the spot they bulldozed as according to them the frequent shutdown of the engines of their equipment while doing work there is abnormal.  That spot was just a couple of meters from where my sister fell.

When I told the story of the laborers to some officemates, they said that the place near our house which is now the path of the new road construction was once a greenhouse where a farmer was suffocated to death.  Then I recalled that some two years ago, the previous occupants of what is now our residence came back to perform a ritual on that spot where my sister had been hurt.  They came with a native chicken with its feet tied and let it leap around the spot.  According to one of those who came (who apologized for barging in the premises without permission) they were trying to determine the actual spot where they buried two embryos who were not born due to miscarriage so they could take some soil and do further rituals to appease the spirits.  The last spot where the chicken settled was where they took the soil for their ritual.  With these two accounts, it is then possible that some restless souls are just around our location.

That made me google “how to deal with restless souls.”  My search led to the more encompassing subject of unseen entities like evil spirits and other unseen mystical beings.

My native Ifugao upbringing reminded me of “pinading” that guards rivers, springs, forests, or some particular spots.  Where I live now is not Ifugao but friends from here tell of some similar belief.  Our residence is near a creek so the possibility of “pinading” is there.

I came across an article that says one of the favorite dwelling of unseen spirits are old structures.  My household is now living in a house which is estimated to be about fifty years old.  So could it be old enough to be a dwelling of unseen entities?  The article also says that the unseen entities become furious when there is disturbance in their habitat.  The road construction nearby is surely a disturbance on their part if they exist there as there is movement of soil and cutting of trees.

In the end though, we still concluded that my sister’s incident was an accident.  She stumbled on some pebbles probably then the laws of physics got her head hitting a sharp stone.  The presence of unseen entities could also possibly be true.  

Unseen entities do exist and they could just be present anywhere.  People just have to co-exist with them and hopefully, in a peaceful manner.  For restless souls, they need prayers.  For evil spirits, the armor from the Almighty is needed to defeat them.  And for the unseen entities that also guards nature, people must be one with them.