The Mangkukulam and the Mambabarang are both Filipino sorcerers in the Philippines. These Filipino sorcerers are well-known throughout the Philippines as it has many stories about them. However, the Mangkukulam and the Mambabarang are respectively different.
The Mangkukulam (left side holding a voodoo doll) are witches who studied black magic, practiced voodoo, and performing rituals. This type of witches or sorcerers could cast evil spells on humans. People who wish to take revenge on someone or an enemy would search for the Mangkukulam. Mangkukulam is a powerful witch as most reports and cases of the victim died caused by the black magic performed by the bewitched Mangkukulam. However, it takes a price or any property after requesting of taking vengeance.
Mambabarang (right side with insects) is that these witches or summoners use insects to enter the victim's body to anyone they hate. Despite they are similar to Mamkukulam. The Mambabarang are ordinary people who studied black magic to torture before death on the victim using their insects to infesting their whole bodies. It causes the victim some illness and unbearable pain when the Mambabarang uses their magical insects that they medium and communicate in targeting the victim. It doesn't need for exchange of property when a person requests on taking revenge.
Despite the Mangkukulam and Mambabarang are still active in the Philippines, people tend to avoid them. Sometimes these witches are healers to the humans who are in aid for their magic from any illness.
The Mangkukulam and Mambabarang are both ordinary humans who have studied black magic since centuries ago. They prefer to wear indigenous clothes, ritual accessories for protection, and voodoo dolls, or staff.
