Crossword-Solution: ANTING 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Lord Elgin proceeded in a chair of state, accompanied by his suite, and also by Sir Hope Grant with an escort of 100 officers and 500 troops, through the streets from the Anting Gate to the Hall of Ceremonies.

These charms not only ward off ill-fortune and sickness, but give positive aid in battle and keep the dogs on the trail of the game.[111] [111] The use of these magic sashes, known as _anting-anting_, is widespread throughout the southern Philippines both with the pagan and Mohammedan tribes.

But notwithstanding his _anting-anting_, and the more potent factor of several hundred natives in his ranks, he was easily defeated by a mere handful of soldiers from the little fort, and when last heard of by our ship was lying in the American hospital at Dumaguete awaiting transportation to Guam.

The most ignorant classes believe that certain persons are possessed of a mystic power called _anting-anting_, which preserves them from all harm, and that the body of a man so affected is even refractory to bullet or steel.

The mob of both sexes told the townspeople that they (the rioters) had nothing to fear, as _anting-anting _wafers (q.v.) had been served out to them.