which ones do you know about

I remember my ya ya once told not to walk in the grass barefoot, or you might step on a dwarf. And if you k!ll one of them they will take revenge on you.

Or about the manganaal, they fly with half a body looking for victims.

And their is the aswang who eats little kids and unborn babies.

And the half horse- half man beast.

Ibong Adarna, Malakas at Maganda, Chanak, Kapre, Aswang of all types (wak wak, manananggal, tik tik, etc), Nuno sa Punso, Those people that dress in white in the mountains,

White lady...

hey ek-ek does your mommy still tell you stories like the white lady or aswang?

Almost everyone !

Do they give you nightmares?

I'm gonna say my experience with the white lady again...

I saw the white lady at my rooftop one night when I was 10 in the Phils and she was the most beautiful thing i've ever seen. I swear.

Oh yeah, I hear about the Tikbalang, Capre, Shokoy (sp?), Dwende, Agta. This topic is really giving me the chills now 2

come we don't have EL CUCUY? that'd be so cool.

sino si El Cucuy?

mexican boogeyman

Like el chupakabra

*nods*

si senor, hide your goats

Wth are mamao?

mythical creature din ba ang mangkukulam?

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It was just an American girl.... thinking u wrere a brown monkey so she investigate and try to take photo for Nation Geography

-just kidding tol..

ohhhhh snap.....CATFIGHT!!!!!!!

Ohhh.....are you instigating me? Ok, I see how it is

nah.. I see allot of them too specialy here in US..allot lso in Europe

Ghosts related to the Balete tree. I dunno, but usually Filipinos fear Balete trees, may mga multo raw kasi na naninirahan dun.

kasi ang balete tree ay nasa labas ang ugat, kung iyong susuriin, nakakapangilabot talagang tingnan kaya iniuugnay nila ang kung anu-anong masasamang elemento dito.

myhtical: sirena! diwata, ada, nuno sa punso,... ang mangkukulam, hindi na ata mythical yan... ewan lang...

of all the filipino mythical creatures, the horse-demon Tikbalang fascinates me the most...



the original description of a tikbalang do not usually have these fangs...

oo nga... enhanced na yan ah! upgraded na rin huh? sumasabay sa panahon...

mangkukulam is witch right? so ibig sabihin, totoong may witch? . waah! boba ko talaga!

yep, their interpretation of a tikbalang in that pic is ugly...

parang cellphone naa-upgrade din.

tikbang ( kalahati tao, kalahati kabayo, nyaayy ), tik-tik ( ung prang manananggal na may mahabang dila ), white lady, mambabarang ( ung prang mangkukulam, pero i2 gumagamit sya ng mga insekto, nilalagay sa loob ng ktawan ng tao, na kinukulam nya ), duwende?!, grabe, ang dami pa..

[COLOR=blue]tikbang ( kalahati tao, kalahati kabayo, nyaayy ), tik-tik ( ung prang manananggal na may mahabang dila ), white lady, mambabarang ( ung prang mangkukulam, pero i2 gumagamit sya ng mga insekto, nilalagay sa loob ng ktawan ng tao, na kinukulam nya ), duwende?!, grabe, ang dami pa..

ang aswang at mangkukulam ay hindi "witch" in the English sense. walang kaparis yan. a class of their own, because they are peculiar only to the Filipino landscape of imagination. ganun din sa karamihan ng mga karakter ng lower mythology natin. ang mga fairy, ada (spanish) ay wala sa Filipino. mga european constructs yan na nakuha natin sa kakabasa ng fairy tales, harry potter at ano nga yung kay tolkien?.

BTW: nalaman ko lang sa research ko na ang "ada" pala ay spanish for fairy. palagay ko dito nakuha ang terminong "hada" o "panghahada" na ginagamit ng mga bading. extension ng ada(sp) - fairy (eng), which is slang for bakla.

sa Antique napakaraming karakters: lulid, tamawo, tayhu, sigbin, etc. ayon sa folk belief ng mga Karay-a sila ang mga idadalmun o mga karakter sa ilalim. sa Karay-a world view ang kalibutan (universe/mundo) daw ay nahahati sa tatlo: ibabawnun, where the gods are, lupan-un (we mortals) and idadalmun. Kailangang iwasan nating makihalubilo sa mga idadalmun. ang pagkakasikit (illness) daw ay bunga ng transgression natin sa kanilang mundo.

Basahin si Alica P. Magos, "Maaram: Ethnography of a Kinaray-a Village"

^standard yon.. transgression sa kanilang mundo = sakit... all over the philippines yata, ganyan ang paniniwala, kahit ano ang tawag sa mga di nakikitang kababaklaan!

I'm surprised no one mentions the greatest filipino mythical creature...the half-spanish-half-chinese-half-filipino...a creature most prized above all else. .......ahh joke jokes 2

^LOL. IMSCF syndrome.

hada din ba yon?

2 2 2

kababaklaan!

joke pa ba yon? o subconsciously implying that you see kabaklaan as a transgression = sakit/ kababalaghan/katatawanan. dahil kung ganyan, hindi yata matalino ang forum na ito.
pero kahit pa joke yon, hindi natin dapat ginagawang katatawanan ang kabaklaan. otherwise, hindi na tayo iba sa kacheapan ng mga TV shows na tumatangkilik pa si istilong bakla ni roderick paulate.

pero in fairness, magaling ang pun. wagi ka doon.

as in! huy! i don't intend to malign the third sex... nirefer ko lang yong kabaklaan sa hada sa prev post ha!...

i don't discriminate tita! Wiz talaga! ever!

any fictionized pix?

Mmm... I know the Manananggal. And all those things when I watched Agimat? [shrugs]

I don't remember the names of the mythical creatures! Haha.

wah! *goosebumps*

pero c maria makiling gusto ko makita!

I saw a tikbalang creature in the harry Potter 1 movie.. you know when the three of them were in the forest..half human half horse

^ hahaha u mean the centaur?? I guess pwede na ring tikbalang yun kasi half-human half-horse naman eh

When gathering for bedtime (horror) stories, there's always one about "White Lady"

And then there's this vampire cat

And of course, Dracula

at yong sigbin ng mga waray...

man i hate cats. ...specially vampire ones.

a basta dito sa amin sa dorm may cat terminators!

I don't what it's called pero parang baliktad yung pagkatikbalang niya.

You missed one, or maybe it's there. but have you heard of the Impatita? It's a creature which is a woman during daylight. But in the light of the moon, it seperates it's torso. The top torso grows wings and flies. The lower half stays where it is until the creature returns from it's hunt. To kill the crreature you must poor salt or holy water on the lower half of the body. If the creature does not return before sunrise it will die.

Ipatita?!?.....is that the same as Mananangal?(sp?)