Talk:Bankaw revolt

Contradiction in number of people burned in Bankaw Revolt

"His son was beheaded, and one babaylan was burned at the stake. Three other followers were executed by a firing squad. In order to dispel the blindness caused by the influence of diwata, eighty one rebel priests were burned."

There is a discrepancy between the number of people burned at the stake.

I have been digging into as many of the quoted sources as I can get my hands on and I think the quoted 81 rebel priests who were burned at the stake might be a typo from https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/857/the-bancao-rebellion-of-1622-in-carigara-leyte where a footnote [8] got printed as 8.

"and to burn 8 one of their priests"

The Philippine Islands,Vol 1, No 38, Blair, Emma Helen, ed. d.1911.

says "To inspire greater terror, the captain gave orders to shoot three or four rebels, and to burn11 one of their priests—in order that, by the light of that fire, the blindness in which the divata had kept them deluded might be removed."

C. Duka (2008). Struggle for Freedom. Rex Bookstore, Inc. pp. 99–100. ISBN 978-971-23-5045-0.

notes only that "after a bloody encounter almost all of the rebels including Bankaw perished."

I cannot get my hands on a copy of Diaz's Conquistas, pp. 132-136 the other quoted source in the Kahimyang article to confirm the number of deaths by burning, and most other sources on the Bankaw rebellion only discuss those Bankaw's head being put on pikes not priests who died by burning. However I feel such a huge number of people being burned at the stake would be discussed in depth by other sources if it were truly 81 and not an unfortunate footnote typo. I have reached out to Kahmiyang.com for clarification but have not heard back.

Gabriellabuba (talk) 19:57, 18 December 2023 (UTC)