amulet of the buffalo's tooth

this is a story of my grandfather's experience in the Philippines he is lolo fuerte, no exact year MINDANAO these days my grandfather was a farmer in the town of Valencia normally living with his parents, his livelihood other than farming was carrying sacks of paddy and rice he carried it down the mountain to be taken to town, he had a buffalo carrying a float on which he loaded the grain and he was only walking about five miles [5 km] to the town of Valencia, at that time my grandfather was only 18 years old but his body was very strong and muscular he was very skilled at work, many also wondered because if you look at my grandfather he is only five feet tall but he defeated almost everyone his age in carrying and lifting, he also participates in games during fiestas one of these games is to haul the most sacks of rice in five minutes, the distance to haul rice to the very end is ten meters, the winner will take home the sacks of rice he hauled, in that game grandpa always wins, just imagine he was able to move five sacks in five minutes at a distance of ten meters

so people always ask him,

"fuerte do you eat grass because your strength is like a buffalo."

grandpa just made fun of it.

"hahahaha, No I just really like to eat sweet potatoes."

unbeknownst to everyone, grandpa takes care of a talisman that is called the amulet of the buffalo's teeth.

this is exactly what grandfather said how he got the amulet of the buffalo's tooth

**one day on my way home from town with my buffalo I noticed that it seemed to be behaving differently so I stopped it and let it drink water from the stream near the side of the road while drinking I noticed that the buffalo seemed to be chewing something on the water, I looked at there was no grass and there I saw its teeth fall out I quickly dived in the water to pick it up, when I saw it I had picked it up with my mouth. when I got out of the water my eyes widened because the buffalo was rushing at me instead of being scared I rushed at it and grabbed both horns. *What are you doing? its me!* but the buffalo doesn't listen, it just keeps on beating me until I end up with bamboos that called bagakay I took a broken bamboo and slapped it between the buffalo's horns. It stopped attacking and became calm.**

grandfather's buffalo was angry because he took its tooth since then he has always taken care of the tooth which is a talisman, there began the strange strength he felt, that he could not easily get tired of working all day on the farm disadvantage, the land he plows is on the side of the hill, he uses it to plant native rice and corn, it is very steep up, there was an incident that tested the effectiveness of grandfather's amulet, one morning he had to go to the middle of the forest to fetch his charcoal, because it was the third day, it was necessary to harvest so it will not to turn to ashes, while walking on the road something pulled him upwards, he was snatched by a kobot a pet of a demon. kobot is a kind of big bird that is a pet of a demon it is also a demon the only difference is that they look like birds, as it lifts him he keep saying cursed words

"you motherf**k*** demon put me down!!"

but the kobot kept flying until he saw a palm tree he grabbed the end of it and believe it or not he cut off its core and he swept away the core causing him to be released by the kobot, when he falls to the ground he immediately gets up and chases the element.

"you are shameless, you intend to eat me"

until it landed on the nara tree, he pulled out his dagger and threw it at the element it was hit in the back because the kobot had facing its back on him, the element immediately flew away but grandpa was determined to catch whoever taking care of that kobot so he followed it until he saw the house where it landed, the sun was already rising up so he knew whose house it was.

"I knew it, you belong to isoy"

he immediately went to the house and saw someone sitting on the porch

*isoy

"oh fuerte what are you doing here at a time like this?

*fuerte

"nothing, I'll just throw my dagger at the bird that came to your house so I went here"

isoy's eyes widened and he spoke.

*isoy

"what do you mean, are you accusing me?"

*fuerte

"I'm not saying you're the one who exposed yourself, you're a demon you son of a b*tch"

isoy immediately stood up and attacked grandpa which was his biggest mistake,

the two quarreled and isoy scratched grandpa on the back but grandpa immediately retaliated with a punch to the stomach, he almost vomited as well as his intestines because of the force of the blow he grabbed isoy's head and broke its neck.

*fuerte

"of all the most I dislike you are harassing your neighbors as well"

what grandpa didn't know was that there were farmers who had passed by, the news immediately spread about what he had done to the well -known demon in their area and there began the name of him fuerte the demon killer,

because of the incident he was feared by everyone but he was respected for being helpful to others.

let's fast forward for a few years grandpa was at age of 38, grandfather was encouraged by the people to become the head of the village that's because of his reputation and this is where the most severe disaster happened in his village, when he was elected as the leader of their village his village was attacked by demons, it is rumored to be from a well -known lineage of demons, it was a former governor during the Spanish period.

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