Why does mom keep giving me packets of rice and salt?

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Filipinos take their superstitions seriously. But why? Jim taps his fellow pinoys for their superstition stories. He discovers how Catholicism and folklore intersect. And Jim’s mom lives up to her title as the family’s reigning superstition queen.

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This episode was published on July 13, 2021.

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