"Awog" is a word in HILIGAYNON
awóg - A spell or enchantment believed in
by the superstitious, and supposed to make
one remain within a rather narrow circle,
unable to go far away; spell-binding. Also
used as a verb. Ginbutangán níya sing
awóg ang íya karabáw. He cast a spell on
his buffalo (so that the buffalo should not
be able to go far astray). Naawogán ang
makáwat. The thief had a spell put on him
(in order that he should be unable to
escape to a place far away). Naawóg siá
sang balíkbálik. He is bound to come back
again, he is forced to go to and fro, he is, as
it were, spell-bound and keeps returning to
the same place. (cf. lúmay, lumáy).
Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming the pole into French faces. ‘In the name of the Father,’ he shouted, and a Frenchman reeled back with a pulped eye, ‘and of the Son,’ Father Hobbe snarled as he broke a man’s nose, ‘and of the Holy Ghost!
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