[Herunterladen] 58 Filipino Folklore Monsters

The aswang is probably the most common of filipino monsters since there are so many different kinds.

Filipino folklore monsters. Really he is a goblin who is very protective of his home. 10 lesser known mythical creatures in philippine folklore 1. Top 10 scariest local filipino monsters in the philippines. The nuno is depicted in the philippine mythology stories as a tiny elderly man usually with a long beard. Spanish colonists noted that the aswang was the most feared among the mythical creatures of the philippines even in the 16th century. An aswang is a vampire like witch ghoul in filipino folklore and is the subject of a wide variety of myths and stories. This is probably the most common of filipino monsters since there are so many different kinds.

In fact the term aswang itself refers to various types of creatures that belong to this group. Sirena and siyokoy mermaid and mermen 8. Mangkukulam bruha witch 3. Bal bal is a scavenger monster with a voracious appetite for dead human bodies. They break into funeral homes and steal recent corpses. The angongolood or angunguluod is a creature in bicolano folklore said to look like a gorilla and inhabits swamps and riverbanks where it attacks fishermen and boatmen. Bakunawa was a beautiful diwata a type of deity or spirit of the sea.

In general they are shape shifters who are human by day and then at night turn into a dog a pig a bat cat snake the type of animal depends on the regional lore. The aswang are by far the most prolific monsters in filipino folklore. It jumps on and hugs the unsuspecting victim very tight until the hapless person is dead and then turned into a tree. The nuno lives in a dirt mound much like an anthill and puts curses on anyone who might damage or defile it. Aswang philippine ghouls 2. It has a combination of traits similar to ghouls and vampires such as feeding on corpses and on the blood of the living. She is believed to be the cause of eclipses and that she was transformed into a dragon like creature as punishment.

Portrait of the first man malakas and woman maganda who came out from a bamboo pecked by the bird form of the deity of peace amihan in tagalog mythology the maranao people believe that lake lanao is a gap that resulted in the transfer of mantapoli into the center of the world. Inarguably the local version of latin america s chupacabra sigbin has varying descriptions linked to its. Also known as maninilong.