Name any Filipino Ghost, Monsters, Folklore beasts

[nailworms]

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interested sad ko makabalo ani..

to start.


DIWATA or ENGKANTADA - mostly females, or fairies, who are also believed to guard natural creations such as forests, seas, land and air.

MARIANG MAKILING - fairy who dwells atop Laguna's Mount Makiling, an extinct volcano and is being considered as a mountain. They say that Makiling was once a castle and Maria Makiling is a princess who fell in love with a mortal.

SIRENA - mermaid; sea creatures with fish tails who attract fishermen and tourists.

SIYOKOY - horrifying sea creatures with fish-like bodies and long green tentacles. They drown mortals and eat them.

TIYANAK or IMPAKTO - terrifying babies who die before Baptism and proceeded to Limbo, a chamber of Hell where dead unbaptized people fall. Like vampires, they appear and eat the living.

ASWANG - a Filipino version of vampire. They are humanlike by day and at night they transform to monstrous forms and eat awake humans.

MANANANGGAL - an aswang who flies and carries only half of its body. It is because at night, their bodies are cut in half and the lower limbs are left hidden somewhere. It mostly eats babies and fetuses within a mothers womb. It eats babies by passing their long tongue to a small hole on the roof of a house. The sharp end touches the baby and all its blood is sucked out.

KAPRE - a big filthy creature who likes to smoke and hide within large trees. A Filipino bigfoot, it scares little children who play at night.

TIKBALANG - half-man, half-horse. It travels at night and rapes female mortals to give birth to more tikbalangs.

JUAN TAMAD - Lazy John; a very lazy man who was buried under the soil by monkeys who thought he was dead because of his laziness. He is known to be the laziest man on earth.

BERNARDO CARPIO - a very strong and brave man who got stuck within a cave in Montalban, Rizal.

DUWENDE - dwarfs; little creatures who can shower good or bad luck.

NUNO SA PUNSO - spirits who live within mysterious lumps of soil who can shower good or bad luck to anyone who steps on their shelter.

MAMBABARANG - a wicked witch who uses insects and any material to enter the body of anyone they hate and come out disgustingly.

MANGKUKULAM or BRUHA - witches who cast evil spells.

SARIMANOK - a magical mythical bird who brings good luck to anyone who catches it.

MALAKAS and MAGANDA - Strong and Beautiful; they are the Filipino Adam and Eve who are said to appear from the large pecked bamboo tree.

MANAUL - mythical king who became a bird. He was said to make the seas and skies fight and this fight formed the Philippine islands.

BATHALA - God in the Filipino myths.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp...ical_creatures

please add. lisod pangitaon sa net.. if you have mga antique books about Filipino folklores, ghosts, monsters, etc. dont hesitate to post jud. :mrgreen:

[nailworms]

Monsters from Indarapatra and Sulayman Epic:

kurita-a many-limbed crocodile-like monster,
the bird-like tarabusaw and
pah-another monstrous avian creature.

[shoeless_rebel]

cogtong - leviathan in english

bakunawa - dragon in english

santelmo - saint elmos fire/will-o-wisp in english

nag condenar - tortured earthbound soul

mangkukulam - witch

[Cardinal Bunal]

Aparisyon sa Birhen de la Regla sa Theotokos, Carcar...

but was it really the Virgin who appeared?

[abuot]

Tambaloslos

[Isotope]

Mameluke.

Philippine mythical sea serpent who lives in the mangroves or in lush sea vegetation.

[Sinyalan]

BATHALA - God in the Filipino myths.

There was a story about the Vikings came to asia pacific that the word BATHALA was meant by the word VALHALLA as the Vikings was to the Norsemen. Do you see any difference? Bathala is in the heavens and Valhalla is/was also the halls of the slain. hmmmm... I think google is going to be busy now. :mrgreen:

[Sinyalan]

SIRENA, SIYOKOY, ASWANG, KAPRE, TIKBALANG... these creatures are not of Filipino in origins... there were brought by the dutch, jesuits and other foreign traders way back when Philippines was conquered by the spaniards.

[shoeless_rebel]

SIRENA, SIYOKOY, ASWANG, KAPRE, TIKBALANG... these creatures are not of Filipino in origins... there were brought by the dutch, jesuits and other foreign traders way back when Philippines was conquered by the spaniards.

hmmmm... noh? but i thought the tikbalang is a local mythological creature. gkan diay na sila sa centaur ug faun na myth sa west no?