Filipino Folklore Monsters
Bakunawa was a beautiful diwata a type of deity or spirit of the sea.
Filipino folklore monsters. Spanish colonists noted that the aswang was the most feared among the mythical creatures of the philippines even in the 16th century. Inarguably the local version of latin america s chupacabra sigbin has varying descriptions linked to its. Bal bal is a scavenger monster with a voracious appetite for dead human bodies. Top 10 scariest local filipino monsters in the philippines.
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. The aswang are by far the most prolific monsters in filipino folklore. The aswang is a monster from philippine folklore that can shape shift from a human form into various animals.
They break into funeral homes and steal recent corpses. Also known as maninilong. It jumps on and hugs the unsuspecting victim very tight until the hapless person is dead and then turned into a tree. 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.
The nuno lives in a dirt mound much like an anthill and puts curses on anyone who might damage or defile it. 10 lesser known mythical creatures in philippine folklore 1. The aswang is probably the most common of filipino monsters since there are so many different kinds. Bakunawa is a serpentine creature in philippine mythology that is often represented as a gigantic sea serpent.
Aswang philippine ghouls 2. Sirena and siyokoy mermaid and mermen 8. 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 nuno is depicted in the philippine mythology stories as a tiny elderly man usually with a long beard.
Mangkukulam bruha witch 3. In fact the term aswang itself refers to various types of creatures that belong to this group. From aswang to the white lady. 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.