For some days we were unable to make a guess as to their origin.

Then we heard that a "Queen" had arisen at the town of Taytay near the Laguna de Bay.

An investigation of the Queen and her activities resulted in rather astonishing revelations.

She was a very ordinary looking Tagalog girl who had secured the body of an old bull-cart, stopped the cracks with clay, partially filled it with water and decaying vegetable matter, and at rather frequent intervals had bathed in the fermenting mass thus concocted.

In due time she announced herself a healer of all the ills to which flesh is heir, and the sick flocked to her.