Hindi Biro!... ó Ang Anting-Anting

A comic folktale follows a young man named Juan who apprentices to an elderly farmer reputed to possess anting-anting and other charms. He learns ritual prescriptions and secret formulas meant to grant invisibility and protection, then tests them at social occasions, provoking a chain of awkward, amusing encounters and misunderstandings. The episodes mix slapstick situations with gentle satire of popular superstition, community etiquette, and ritual practice, and the narrative closes by urging prudence and common sense while playfully exposing tensions between belief in charms and ordinary social life.