INTRODUCTION:
The Filipino's greatest asset is also his biggest liability --- his fanaticism of faith.
The Filipinos have a long history of cruel colonizers, neglectful politicians and monopolizing capitalists that the Filipinos lives' have been brought deeper and deeper intro poverty. They have learned to hold onto anything, even the extraordinary, to believe that there is hope in living.
In the Philippines, there are multitudes of "mediums", people who claim that God is working through them, that various Catholic deities, from Jesus Christ to Mother Mary to the Apostles, even God himself is "speaking" through their bodies and using their hands to heal people.
A Filipino mother who has a sick child, for example, will most likely take the youngling to a "medium" than to a doctor. And even if she does take her child to the doctor, she will still take him/her to the "medium" --- just to make sure.
It is this Filipino culture that inspired me to write this fan fic.
"Himala" is Filipino for "Miracle".