Note: Different ethnic groups have different names for shamans, including shamans with specialized roles. The following is a list of the terms each tribe use to call their shamans.
For more information on the shamans themselves, please scroll all the way down pass this list. The last item would be the Yakan ethnic group.
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Abaknon • tambalan
Aeta/Agta • anitu, puyang (also poyang, pawang, pauang), huhak (diviner)
Bagobo • mabalian
Balanguingui • duwarta
Banwaon • babaiyon (also the female datu of the tribe)
Bikol • balyán, balyán-a, balyana, paraanito, paradiwata
Bukidnon • baylan
Gaddang • mailang
Hanunó'o • balyán, balyán-an
Higaonon • baylan
Ibaloi • mambunong
Igorot (Ifugao) • mandadawak, dawak, insupak, mon-lapu, tumunoh, alpogan, mumbaki, manalisig (apprentice)
Ilocano • baglan, mangoodan, manilao, mangalag (medium), mangngagas (herbalist)
Isneg • alopogan, dorarakit, anitowan
Itneg • mandadawak, alpogan
Ivatan • machanitu (medium), maymay (midwife), mamalak (diviner)
Kankana-ey • manbunong (medium), mansib-ok (healer), mankotom (diviner, also mankutom)
Kapampangan • katulunan (also catulunan)
Karay-a • ma-aram, mangindaloan (healer), soliran (diviner, also soli-an)
Lumad • balian, balyan, mabalian
Maguindanao • walian (female shaman, midwife), pendarpa'an (medium), pedtompan (medium), tabib (healer), pangagamot ([apprentice] healer, also ebpamanggamut), ebpamangalamat (diviner)
Mamanwa • baylan, binulusan, sarok, tambajon (healer, also tambalon)
Mandaya • baylan, balyan, baliyan
Manobo • beylan, baylanen (also baylanon), manhuhusay (mediator, keeper of traditions, also tausay), manukasey (healer against sorcery), walian or walyan, diwata (head shaman)
Maranao • walian, pamomolong
Palaw'an • beljan
Sama-Bajau • balyan, wali jinn, dukun, papagan, pawang, bomoh, kalamat (diviner), panday (healer, midwife)
Sarangani • magbulungay
Subanen • balian, tanguiling
Suludnon • banawangon
Tagalog • katalonan (also katalona, catalona, catalonan), manganito, sonat, anitera (or anitero), lubus (herbalist), manggagagamot (healer), manghuhula or pangatahoan (diviner), hilot (midwife)
Talaandig • walian
Tausug • mangubat (also mangungubat, magubat), pagalamat (diviner)
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