There are monsters that haunt the imagination because of their sheer brutality, and then there are monsters that chill us because they twist the familiar into the grotesque. In Philippine folklore, one such nightmare dominates the night sky — the Manananggal. Unlike simple spirits or beasts, she is human by day and horror by night. …
In every culture, there is a monster that slips beneath the skin of society, a figure so deeply rooted in collective imagination that it becomes more than a myth — it becomes a reflection of fear itself. For the Philippines, that monster is the Aswang. Not just one creature but a category of horrors, the …
There are creatures you run from, and then there are creatures you laugh with — or at — though the laughter is never entirely free of fear. Deep in the forests and mountains of the Philippines lives one of the strangest, most mischievous figures in global folklore: the Tikbalang. Half-horse, half-man, all trickster, the Tikbalang …
