Customs and Traditions Archives

Warning: Good luck charms that may neither be good nor lucky

Instead of bringing you good fortune, New Year charms on sale on Manila’s sidewalks could do just the opposite.

A gigantic way to light up the Holidays

A giant tree lit up the sky Friday night, adding to the glitter that Filipinos have come to associate with the Christmas season.

Tattoo tribute tops INQUIRER.net’s Mother’s Day contest

At 81, Rosalyn Ng’s mother cried tears of joy when her daughter came home one day with her face tattooed on her daughter’s back.

Encounter with a ‘Mangkukulam’

Most summers of my childhood were spent in my father’s hometown, a sleepy coastal village on an island in Western Visayas, at a time when

Celebrate wicked Halloween at Discovery Shores Boracay’s Galleon Playhouse

On October 31, come in your fearsome best and win amazing prizes at the most wicked Halloween event in Boracay Island – Discovery Shores’ haunted Galleon Playhouse!

Play time, scare time at Discovery Suites

Discovery Suites, the premier serviced residence in the heart of the Ortigas Business District, is the place to be for good old fashioned scare this Halloween season.

Here comes the bride (and the 10,000 details she has to decide on)

Four tips for the destination wedding bride: 1. Plan ahead. Give yourself at least one year to organize your wedding. This means not just you

Destination: Tuscany

Walking down the aisle of a chapel or a castle in some faraway land is no longer such an unattainable fantasy. A destination wedding –

Sta. Rita de Cascia, saint of the impossible

I was one of many devotees looking up to Sta. Rita de Cascia as her icon sat on top of the carroza decorated with red

Numbers

40: Number of days of Lent, the period leading to Easter, and a season of self-examination, fasting and penance in preparation for Easter Day observance.