Each "anting-anting" serves different purposes. Some of them provides a promise of romance or love charms while others promises the holder to be impervious to bullets, to disappear and reappear at will, and to ward off evil spirits and be protected from danger. There are also "anting-antings" that offer special gifts, such as the mysterious and esoteric art of hilot (massage and healing), hula (fortune telling), and kulam (spells and witchcraft).