Philippines Mythical Creatures Pt 2

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Here is the continuation of my post about philippines mythical creatures. If you haven't read the previous post, you can read it here. 

https://read.cash/@Jdine/philippines-mythical-creatures-pt-1-728d24c2

We tackled about Aswang, Tiktik, Manananggal, Diwata, Kapre, and Mangkukulam in my previous post. Now lets talk about other mythical creatures in the Philippines. 


Duwende

image source is https://non-aliencreatures.fandom.com/wiki/Duende

Duwende is dwarf in English. They are goblins or elves that give good luck or foresee a future bad fortune to people. But not all duwende are good. Some duwendes are wicked and are believed to cause children's death. Duwendes behavour depends on how people treat them. They can be good or mischievous. They normally come out every noon and at night. Filipinos murmur words like "tabi tabi po" which translates to "excuse me" to excuse themselves for thinking maybe they bother Duwendes. Filipinos also leave food on the corner to offer for Duwendes that resides in the house. They also like to play around and take something and laugh while the person trie to find it and give it back when they feel like it or when the person asks politely them to please give it back. They are aso belived to like showing themselves in children. In modern beliefs, Duwende live in little houses and trees and in termite mounds. They are also similar to another mythical creature called nuno sa punso. 


Nuno sa punso

image source https://mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Nuno_sa_Punso

These are dwarflike nature soirits and it living in a termite mounds or anthills. Nuno means "ancestor" and punso means "mound" and sa means "in". So Nuno sa punso means "Ancestor living in the mound". Nuno looks like a dwarflike old man with a long beard and is snappish or easily angered that will do harm to people who damage or disturb his house which is the mound. He does this by punishment like for example when you poke or punch its mound, he will make your finger or your hand swollen. Step on it and he will make your feet swollen. He will do this by spitting on the person's body part and the person will then experience soreness or even pains and swollen genitals when you pee on their house. They can punish you by swelling or body parts, pain , vomiting of blood . etc. They live near trees, Behind large rock is underneath, riverbanks, caves or someone's backyard. 


Tikbalang

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Tikbalang is a half-man, half-horse creature and is belived to be very evil. Tikbalang has a horse head and a body of human and a feet of a horse. It roams at night to look for a woman to rape and soon, that woman will give birth to another tikbalang. They are also known to cause tourists to losetheir way in mountains and forests. Those tourists are sometimes hepled by Diwatas and Engkantada given the fact that they are good people. Tikbalang are very tricky to people and make people see things that aren't real that drives a person insane. It is said that it can free them from tikbalang's curse if you wear you clothes inside out. Tikbalangs are sometimes can ba tamed when you asks politely to pass by in mountains and forests. Some say that when the sun is shining while raining indicates that a pair of tikbalang is being married.


Tiyanak

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This is the unborn babies that was aborted and babies that died without being baptized and are transformed into evil spirits. And it can also be the seed of a woman and a demon. Tiyanak eat living victims. The aborted fetus comes back to take revenge on it's mother. Most tiyanaks are believed to live in the forest. And when a human comes, they pretend to be a normal baby. When the human gets the tiyanak, it transform to its true form and eats the human. 


Wakwak

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It is from the word Uwak which means Crow. The wakwak flaps it wings to make a sound while flying indicating that there is a Vampire or ghost or monster or any other mythical creatures. It is also belived to grab its human victim at night. It prefers to haunt the provincial areas of the Philippines. It looks like a big Crow with big talons and a batlike large wings. It is also said that is another form of vampire. And that it is a creature associated to witches. It is sometimes a crow that turns itself to it's wakwak's form

There you have it. Thanks for reading! Hope this post help you learn more about some Philippine Mythical Creatures.


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A nice article, but please name the sources for the pictures. For example:

https://non-aliencreatures.fandom.com/wiki/Duende

https://mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Nuno_sa_Punso

These images are available under CC-BY-SA license and you can use it, but you must name the source. Read more here:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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4 years ago

oh... i didn't know how to cause i got thise at google and saved it on my computer. i will check on that. how were you able to get those urls? can you teach me so i can edit the captions?

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4 years ago

You must not simply copy pictures from Google. You must have permission. These two images have
CC-BY-SA-license, so you can do it if you indicate the source. You can search for images in Google. I never vote for articles with images that are not licensed. You may only use your own images, or use license-free (like unsplash) images

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4 years ago

i edited my article. but i'm curious. how will you know if the image is liscence free or if you can use it.

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4 years ago

Because on these pages you can see for example this:

Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.

Check other images

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oh i see... thank you sir for bringing that up. so if i put the source, it'll be just fine? i mean, can i still use the photo when i put the source? cause unplush doesn't have photos like those and so am i. hehe

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4 years ago

Now it's good

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4 years ago

Thank you for these information sir.. i learned something new.... thanks thanks thanks...

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4 years ago

And it what there, the complete set of mythical creatures in the Philippines

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4 years ago

actually there are more but i am not familiar with those kaya I stopped ahahaha

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4 years ago

Yeah there are lot more. You have just mention the most famous mythical creatures in the Philippines or the most they say that they already seen hehe

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4 years ago

Yep.

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4 years ago

So many mythical creatures aside from that from the Philippines. We really believe that specially before, it so famous before way back 80's or 90's. Sometimes parents used it to their child as a threat or enough scared a child just don't go or play at night. That's why before there's no many cases about child's missing. But now some parents allow their child to go at night. Well, anyway every parents have different way on how they raise their children. Now in 21st century, just only some of people still believe those kind of mythical creatures and some of it is not because duh it's 21st century a modern era.

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4 years ago

yeah many people do not believe in these mythical creatures especially those who have not seen some of these. hehe

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