Learn more about the history of the Philippines at the Philippine National Historical Society (pnhs1941.org/) and the Filipino American National Historical Society (fanhs-national.org/filam/).
Can you also have the special Halloween episode about spirit of the glass or widia board if my spelling is correct or third eye what is more spooky if the episode are telling how scary of seeing ghost and other creatures that can't see of human eyes or to summon spirit but your life is to paid for summon them.
@@sandhyachristine7173 lol, no it's not. XD Filipino films about local monsters are usually just not well researched, or they over exaggerate things to make it interesting. That's not irony. That's a fact.
"There are many types of monsters in the Philippines that are labeled as Aswang but their appearance and habits divide them into subcategories." Some are in the City Hall, in the traffic management offices, in tax offices, Barangay halls, and Commission on Audit Office to name a few.
HaHAAA, government corruption! I pretend to laugh here, but I'm actually crying on the inside at how the cancer that is corruption has managed to worm its way into every major government on the planet in this day and age.
You forgot the worst of them all, 200 oligarchs that control majority of the wealth of that country and they don't have full residence there. Yet, they seem to know how to sell your forest, your land for the US to dump their garbage, and any natural resources they can benefit from.
This is also how a social outcast got branded because he or she is old, lives alone on the village outskirts and dose not interact with the community that often.
@@angellazarus the popular "lynch-mob syndrome". People will just prosecute someone whom their hate or doesn't like on their community without proper procedure.
By the way, if you still want to continue on the Philippine mythological creatures, I have some few suggestions: *MYTHICAL BEASTS* - They're humongous monsters that resembles animals. *1. Baconaua/Bakunawa* _(a giant serpentine being that devoured 6 of the 7 moons in Philippine Mythology. )_ *2. Minokawa* _(Said to resemble a giant eagle. This creature could end any eclipse with its wings.)_ *3. Wakwak* _(A giant flying black beast that oddly resembles either a crow or a bat. This is basically our version of Mothman. It brings undescribable fear and nightmares to whoever lives to tale the tale. Its sound could instantly end one's breath.)_ *ASWANGS* - Collective term for humans who could transform into beast-like ghouls *1. Regular Aswangs* _(People that transforms into these man-eating monsters at night. They typically have this Dog-like appearance. And that could be the reason why they are called Aswang, because "Dog" in Tagalog is "Aso". But other than dog, they could also look like pigs, cats, etc.)_ *2. Tiyanak* _(an abandoned demon baby that lures innocent people who have soft heart for kids. They feast on man-flesh. This is a variant of the Aswang class)_ *3. The Sigbin* _(A shapeshifting vampire-werewolf type creature, which is a variant of the Aswang creatures. As someone pointed out in the comment section, they can't shapeshift though, but it still depends on the region where you came from. I said vampire-werewolf hybrid, because of its nature of transformation and beast-like features but they're way worse because they full-on slaughter anyone. Their shapeshifting is unstable and constant, making them look uncanny and disgusting.)_ *4. Tiktik* _(This is already mentiomed on the video but why the hell not. An aswang type with long prehensile tongues that sucks the fetus out of a pregnant ladies. What this video misses to discuss is how those tongues are as tough as fucc and how sharp they are. Their tongues are basically weapons 😂)_ *5. Manananggal* _(The one mentioned in this video.)_ *ENGKANTOS* - Engkantos are collective term for powerful spirits from another world. *1. Diwatas/Diwanis* _(These are goddess/fairy-like beings with humanoid appearance. But even though they're humanoid, they lack certain features like wrinkles, the weird gap between our nose and lips, fingerprints, etc. These lack of feafures is what makes them weirdly and other-worldly beautiful though. They're notable for luring handsome men and women to join their world, and to some extent, ranks. Yes, they're basically egotistic elitists who values beauty over anything else. They only bang beautiful people, so don't expect fro them to appear if you're not pretty/handsome. 😂)_ *2. Nuno sa Punso* _(They are dwarve-like creatures that hide on anthills. They can curse you or grant you wish depending on your attitude towards them. But they mostly curse people by making their limbs bloat. Important thing to note, they really love their anthill house so don't go destroying them, say "Tabi-tabi po" once you encounter one. Ofcourse these are just tales.)_ *3. Bangungot* _(This is the personification of Nigthmares in Philippine mythology. Her name literally means nightmare in Tagalog. They're usually portrayed as these oversized ladies with black skin and smokes, sitting on top of whoever's sleeping. Their eyes are yellow as fucc. Not a great roommate, gotta say.)_ *4. Kapre* _(Due to popular demand, I was forced to wrote this one 😂. Kapres are hairy chainsmoking giants that typically reside in Balete trees, which is a dwelling place for most supernatural beings here in he Philippines. They're sometimes portrayed in media as this wise, good-hearted, misjudged creature. But the most common description of witnesses of Kapres are their glaring red eyes, dark skin, mouth with sharp fangs and everflowing salivas, etc.)_ *5. Tikbalang* _(Reversed Centaurs; a huge muscular man with a wild horse as its head, another variant of the Aswang in some versions, but typically a guardian of nature. Also, there's a belief that when you managed to get hold of its hair, you can wish for anything.)_ *OTHERS* - The rest that don't fit the descriptions of other groups *1. Bungisngis* _(It's a superstrong giant cyclops with elephant-like tusks protruding out of his mouth, because of that same tusks, it makes him look like he's smiling when he's in fact, not. And as the name suggest "Bungisngis", "Giggle" in English, it creates these giggling sounds whenever air passes through his mouth.)_ *2. Santelmo* _(Named after Saint Elmo, this thing is a flying ball of fire that chases people. That's it. 😂😂 Nothing notable here but that's what's interesting about it because its motivation is still unknown. Perhaps they're guarding treasures or planning a takeover of the world? 😂😂)_ *3. Shokoy* _(I don't really know where to put this guy. Shokoy are mermans. They are humanoid in form but their skin is covered with fishscales and they have gills. They also eat people, that's why I like to refer to this creature as an underwater aswang.)_ *4. Sirena or Sirens/Mermaids* _(This is also another hard one to classify since paranormal experts claim it to be spirit in appearance like Engkantos, but Filipino witnesses claim they are physical creatures. This myth is most definitely brought by Spaniards to the Philippines to monopolize the sea.)_ EDIT: I don't know why people are saying I copypasted this even though they have no proof to back it up and why my supposed "copypasting" is even triggering them. Get a life. 😂
@@WillowFrancais Note that in modern folklore, "Aswang" in general are depicted as shape-shifting vampire-werewolf type creatures. Heck, I didn't even know about the Sigbin until I read this comment...
The Tikblang isn't an Aswang though. Isn't it more like a forest guardian in the same of trolls/bigfoot? I've never heard of a Tikbalang eating humans.
Imagine a manananggal in Russia hehehe... Lived in Norway for 1 yr, Im pretty sure even with a skin 3x thick than a normal person, any kind of aswang would find it difficult to prowl/fly when temp. hits -20 in Europe, especially in Russia... peace
Mom: Be careful or this freaky halfbodied vampire from across the ocean will come to get you in the dark cold woods of Russia Baba Yaga sizing up the kid to crush in her mortar for baking like a cake: NOT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY Leshy listening from the dark cold woods he rules over: *That's cute*
There’s another monster called “chismosas” they are the type of monster that is like human who whispers to each other and suddenly people will hate you.
Hi there, I'm a Filipino anthropology student and I'd wanna add that when the Spanish arrived, it was pretty much Game of Thrones: there were at least three dominant "factions" at that time, Indianized Rajas, Islamic Sultans, or Native Datus. There were even reports of a state in the north with Chinese-inspired culture, probably due to trade with the Ming Dynasty (perhaps they were a tributary state of the Dynasty, I forget, it's been a while since I've checked out the National Museum). Oh dude imagine a medieval fantasy RPG but in this setting! Imagine all the monsters and stats per faction.
@@ZyozyoPadilla I'll get my team to work. Of course this is only a concept, once we pass that phase and reach a playable state, you'll be the first playtester :)
I remember every summer we used to go home to my mom’s province and their house was not concrete, it was a house made of wood and they would tell us to close the windows at night before sleeping because a mananaggal might get in and sometimes I can hear the trees moving and I could never sleep thinking it was a manananggal flapping its wings outside the house. TOTOL NIGHTMARE!!
hm...this practice of shutting the windows can then be connected to one of the points she mentioned about the manananggal's tongue representing mosquitos (and the diseases they spread)
There was a funny story about a careless mananggal woman who just left her half body on the road. A way laid drunk found it, but instead of being afraid he decided to have a good time. So, after a month the manananggal got pregnant.
This is so well-researched. Even the cultural angle is accurate. Colonizers bent tons of traditions in the Philippines. This is a wonderful video. Plus, your voice is perfect. I'm subscribing! Hope you can make more videos from Philippine mythology and other mythologies in Southeast Asia. Kudos!
The sad thing about this is that many normal people had been mercilessly killed just because they're suspected as manananggals and aswangs. Most of them are women or old people who mostly live in rural areas where many still believe mythical creatures exist.
This piece is very well researched, with historical and sociological aspect of the Manananggal. Good job, Monstrus team!! P.S. More Filipino mythology please!!
i live in the philippines and there are more monsters you would not believe like the filipino dragon called bakunawa the moon eating dragon of the philippines. philippines had 7 moons and the bakunawa ate 6 moons the only way to save the moon is to make loud noises. if there is a solar eclipse some believe the bakunawa had sucsessfully ate the moon
Felix Sy what’re you talking about? its a famous filipino myth. everyone, especially those who live in provinces, has heard of the manananggal. bonak ka sis? char ily hehe-
@@jumbohotdog7498 *He doesn't know what a "myth" is...* Whether these stories in Philippine folklores are true or not, they're still considered as Mythologies.
I cannot say this enough: thank God and Goddess and all other major and minor deities for this channel! I obsess over folk tales, fairy tales, and mythology. This feeds my obsession so thoroughly. I had never heard of this being before. It's fascinating from an anthropological perspective and from a good storytelling perspective.
This reminds me of the Nukekubi, a Japanese yokai. It's a woman whose head detaches when asleep and flies around sucking blood. Just like the Manananggal you can't really tell during nighttimes whether a woman is a Nukekubi or not
Its really interesting how asian ghost stories almost have similar ghosts too. In Malaysia, we call it penanggal. Just like nukekubi, it detaches their head from the body but also their internal organs.
I’m really glad you get to highlight monsters from other cultures that those of us in the States may not have heard of. Monsters like vampires and werewolves are interesting to learn about, but they’re a bit overdone. Glad PBS has this show!!
I love the way the manananggal was featured... it's one of the monsters that didn't let me sleep when I was a kid. When you hear weird sounds coming from the roof, that is a manananggal/aswang...
This myth is a complete backwards fabrication. obviously we would need to hide their belly during the day. Our modern culture is very blessings and slander the sit-in locks and the littles
Mananaggal can have relationships and get married. So imagine you somehow married one and didn't know she's a mananggal. One night, you guys were getting it on. That night, your stroke game was on point and then she came so hard that her body separated.
@@Classica_1750 yeah. There is also this humanoid-troll like creature in Bicol folklore known as Rabot. It turn creatures into stones that wanders into its den, also a character in the bicol epic Ibalon
Growing up in the Philippines, i've experienced countless unexplainable things and stories that are pass down by generations. It's exciting to hear but it really terrifies me as a child.
@@Bedburrito There is Halloween in the Philippines, in case you don't know Undas also known as All Saints Day is also called All Hallows Day or Hallowmas. During the 90's, MGB's Halloween specials gave us nightmares for days, and the whole first week of November felt really depressing. That almost no kid would stay out til 6pm due to fear of engkantos, white ladies, and aswangs.
It's true. Several of our neighbor were attacked, and my father was almost attacked too. One of the victim almost died due to severe bleeding near pulse. But it's not manananggal, just aswang.
When my mother was giving birth to me . My parents said there was a manananggal in the roof waiting for me to be eaten . But my father has a wood sculpted sword 🗡️ they said the manananggal was scared of that sword because of its mystical properties Sorry for my English hehe
Eh, it's fine. Perfection with English doesn't really matter much in the internet. For the most part, anyway. But yeah, salt works too, as mentioned by Chrielo. Especially the verbal kind. Also, did anyone else's parents try and scare them to sleep with 'ibukawa?'
As an American, having served in the Navy(1979 - 1999), my first visit to the Philippines was in 1980. I had never heard of folklore of any kind coming out of the Philippines. Long story, short, I saw this. For nearly all my time in the Navy from time to time I told fellow shipmates wherever I was stationed about what I had seen, but never knew what it was called. In 1998 while aboard ship, I was sitting around and telling what I had seen(or thought I had seen) in 1980. One of those listening was a Filipino sailor. He rushed everyone out of the office, except me. He wanted me to repeat the story. Afterwards he told me what I had seen. He explained it as folklore. He told me the name. Their are parts to this commentary I am not telling, because it would take too long, It's REAL!!!. Why it happened to me, I can't explain, but it's real.
While I appreciate the research that went into this piece, the fact that we season balut with salt, vinegar, chilies is because that's how we spice up our food. We're partial to sour, salty, garlicky and spicy flavors. Just look at popular Filipino dishes like adobo (not to be confused with the Spanish adobo sauce), which is pork and/or chicken stewed in vinegar, soy sauce, garlick, and pepper corns. I was also hoping to see a connection with the Indo-Malay Penanggalan, a similar creature found in nearby South East Asian countries. The main difference between the Penanggalan and the Manananggal are the way they segment -- the Penanggalan detaches its head and its internal organs from its body, so that you get a floating head with a heart, lungs, stomach, and intestines dangling from it. Interestingly, it appears that both the Penanggalan and Manananggal are usually depicted as female, so the miscarriage monster appears to have always been a woman, even without the intervention of Spanish colonists.
@@mikoy9241 Not really. It was matriarchal. Women could own their own property and pass down her own name. There were even villages that were headed by women. Read more.
Haha. So cool that this was featured. Growing up in the Philippines, you have no idea how it freaks people out when they hear the sound of the wings in the provinces and especially if there's a pregnant woman. It really tickles your imagination, I don't really believe in monsters but you can't help it but feel chills especially during a silent night in the provinces and all of a sudden you hear the sound of huge wings in the rooftop. Probably just an owl but we'll, you never know... Hehe
"a woman is transformed to a manananggal if she eats a baby black chicken..." oh ok not that odd... "...that has been produced from the throat of an older existing manananggal" WHAT
There’s a creature similar to this in Thai folklore too. It’s called “กระสือ/KraSue”. And there’s a male version but with different body features called “กระหัง/KraHung”. The stories about these creatures have been around for ages and ages. Wonder if you heard of it in your study too? I’m curious of the linkage between the ones told in Thai folklore and the Philippines folklore. Our country used to eat balut long ago. It’s not eaten here much if not at all anymore. This episode is very interesting. Thanks for making this entire series.
ohh, i didn't know balut was a thing there and we have a similar folklore. Maybe it's something here in asia or in our part of asia?🤷🏽♀️ I saw a comment saying there's something similar to it, but they suck blood and it's their head that deattaches? And here, balut is still eaten! :0
The only common denominator I could find with the lore for both countries and for the whole SEA region, even NEA region is the influence we got from ancient India.
In India they are called dayan but dayan don't have wings neither their body part deattached instead they have ghost around them who demand something from daayan
As a person from South East Asia, I feel that the Mannanaggal has very similar features to Krasue(Thailand), Kasu(Laos) and Ahp(Cambodia). All of them feature floating detached women with intestine.
yes it is my friend...it came from the tagalog word TANG-GAL meaning to remove..japan also has its version though.. a creature that its head flies off every night and gets back in the morning.. I forgot the name but its something called "gorebi rebi"
Very well done Doctor and the rest of Monstrum team! My grandma used to have a "Kriss" or the wavy dagger lying around in case a Manananggal goes about the house. There are more monsters in the Philippines that you can feature, like the Tikbalang. We'll just wait for them on the next episodes. Salamat!!!
4:29 "Divorce was socially acceptable and could be initiated by either party." As a political science student who has researched the illegality of divorce in modern day Philippines, this blows my mind.
StruggleOn yeah it's sad that they had some equality in marriage and societal roles, but it was taken away. I guess some indigenous cultures were more open minded of women's potential.
And that's how chauvinism always tried and tries to undermine women in society, I profoundly HATE religions, ALL OF THEM just because NONE puts women in equal footing as men. Such a tragedy the indigenous religion and way of life was so thoroughly destroyed by European Christians. Such a shame.
The old folks also say that the loudness of the flapping of its wings work the opposite way. When it's far away, it's loud. But the more quiet it gets, the closer it is to you.
@@J11_boohoo I guess that flew over your head lol Okay, so in case you didn't know, the intestines are not at all connected to the head, so if we force the floating head to have intestines hanging from it, then it would also need to drag the entire ~30 feet of the digestive tract (including the oesophagus and stomach) behind it - I would imagine that this would be a little impractical for a creature that wants to stay hidden. Now, if we say the head is literally just dragging the intestines, then how would this work - did the monster specifically cut out its intestines and glue them to its floating head? Even then, the head would still be dragging ~25 feet of intestine, since it's basically just a long tube. Whereas, a floating head with the spinal cord hanging from it would cast a silhouette approximately just a meter or so tall (almost neatly corresponding to the upper half of a human body). So - why comment on my question without adding any value to the overall discussion?
From a Filipino artist and mythology enthusiast, this is a very commendable video! Now you need to make a follow up with the Tikbalang, and then the Bakunawa!
Haha, horseheads, tree ogres, mischievous tiny dwarf elf things, shapeshifters, forest spirits, you name it, we have it. It's more fun in the Philippines, as advertisers say.
@@Greenierw 😂 Seriously tho, I think we already have those. We have what would be our own variant of vampire hunters. My great grandfather used to hunt aswang and others back in his day with his agimat and itak. There are others like him.
@@andrewvillafuerte5590 penanggal actually separate their head followed by the organs so ugh and they dont have wings And why SEA ghost and monster mostly women not men just WHY?
also not sure why only manananggal are women, but other aswang do have males, like the shapeshifters (those who can change their form from human to either a very large: dog, cat, pig, bird, etc.... and in rare cases, an oversized carabao with glowing red eyes).
@@muhdhanif9222 Hey man, we have kapre and tikbalang too, which are male. The former is best-descried as a tree-troll that smokes giant cigars, while the latter is a backwards centaur (horse top, human bottom).
that's because of the western media turning them into a hot husbandos that gives women unrealistic expectations to us men, instead of making them even more horrifying
@@longlongthepro18 Yep, nearly a perfect translation, though I'm not too sure myself. 'Tanggal' means to remove, and you can add either 'taga-' or 'mana-' to it to change the word's meaning to 'one who removes.' I guess they just used 'manananggal' as opposed to 'taga-tanggal' because the latter sounds more like an occupation and is harder to say, but who am I to say? I'm just a kid, not like kids have any rights to anything here in the Philippines. Edit: I hate it when I make typos
Filipino's ancestors predominantly comes from the Malays and Indonesians. Chinese and Japanese ancestry in the northern parts too. The indigenous Aeta were already the inhabitants of the Philippines before everyone else. They look like small africans.
She has formed a show and work and an income in something she is passionate about that people her entire life probably told her she was crazy for studying. I greatly admire you, please, continue with this show and profession, it's gorgeous!
I was so scared of it when I was a kid. Everytime there was some sort of scratching noise outside I was like "welp the manananggal is here" In hind sight it was probably stray cats scratching their claws on wood posts, but I like to think I survived several manananggal attacks lol
When my mother woke up in the Middle of the dead of night, she heard hard flapping sounds on our roof. Whats more scary is that the fact that my mom was pregnant.
I lived in the province my entire life and there's a bunch of stories about these. Including my mom when she was pregnant and it was me who's in her belly, she said there's one night that she was alone and she heard a loud bang on the roof, hinting that it was a manananggal who just landed, but she got a bunch of things to counter it, like garlic, salt and most importantly, the tail of a stingray which is apparently really effective in fighting off those mystical creatures but even then she was too scared that she's shaking and immediately called her brother who's in a party because my dad is working far away in Manila. There's many more stories, tho until now I haven't seen any of those and I DON'T want to see any of them. Despite this, I still go out in the middle of the night to buy some ice cream, since in my head, I'm thinking, it's 2021, their population should be at minimum. lol
it actually varies from story teller to story teller. Some parts could be jumbled up to the point it varies from the original. Like in the version that was told me when I was a kid, the manananggal is said to be immortal in flesh but not in spirit, that's why instead of stabbing the body you need to stab the shadow instead. I have listened to a lot of versions of it when I was a kid to the point that I don't believe them them anymore as a kid because of the lack of inconsistency 😂
Bobo! Di porke naka tayo nakikita mo sa mga Pinoy Movies e naka tayo na talaga yun. Naka tayo lang talaga ang mga ginagawa ng mga pinoy kasi madali lang gawan ng paraan like maniquin, at di nila kayang gawing maka tutuhanan yung shots kasi mahirap gayahin yung pag tumba ng kalahating katawan. Tanga.
marami ako nababasa na libro tungkol sa naiiwan na parte na katawan ng manananggal, at halos lahat sa mga kwento sinasabi na nakatago yung ibaba madalas sa kung saan may puno ng saging... at nakatayo ito... ngunit, may isa ako narinig na kwento (di ko alam kung fiction ito o memory lang) na yung ibabang parte kaya rin maglakad ng mag isa pero wala pa ako naririnig o nababasa na humihiga yung ibabang parte pag hiwalay ng katawan niya.
Saw one when I was a child and during in high school (a full boarding school). It was horrifying. In Malaysia especially in Sabah, we call this Penanggalan, penanggal or Balan-balan. It is tradition (still practice until today by few) for women to protect themselves and their newborn child from penanggalan with lime, iron nails and lime tree branches. For us, this creature comes from people who practices black magic and sometimes pass down through consuming some sort of salt from the practitioner or swallowing small birds that comes out from the practitioner's mouth.
@@princessfarahify Yes. Saw it entered the bathroom when I was going to take a leak at 2 am. Had to hold my urge to pee and quietly went back to bed. Got sick the next day but unable to say anything to my dorm mates cause I don't want to scare them. That is the first and last time ever saw one. Would not want to see that again T_T
Wow. It's so similar, Mananangals also target pregnant women and babies here, sometimes people call them Balbal (some other types of Aswangs are also described balbal, depending on the region), what we use to ward it off here is garlic, stingray tail, salt(used for most ghouls as curses) and lana(oil mixed with roots and had been enchanted with curses/spells in old language, with the local language but usually latin)
Say if you could recall what you saw did it only have it's head or it included the torso, from what I remember Penanggal is only the head with it's innards.
Even the origin of humanity in our mythology was kinda hilarious. Humanity was made through mud and God somehow failed watching them being cooked. White People - mud is kinda raw since God made a mistake and took them out earlier than they are supposed to. Black People - God forgot that he was cooking some molded mud and fucked it up by being a dumbass. Instead of throwing them away he decided to let them exist despite of being burnt (kinda racist, I know...) Brown People - God finally managed to create "perfect" mud for human. It is not raw nor burnt. Most Filipino folklores and myths favors the Filipino.
As a kid who grew up in the "Aswang Capital of the Philippines", Capiz, the mere mention of this kind of story brings chills to my bones. Before the internet, my generation was taught all almost every sub-species of Aswang our parents and grandparents could recall from the stories they were also taught when thay are young. The Capiznon nightlife was really non-existent until a generation later from mine (hence the influence of the internet). Anyway, as a Capiznon myself, whenever I travel to any parts of the country, I was always asked the moment I talked about my hometown, "Is it true there are Aswangs in you place?" or "Have you seen/heared any of these Aswang?" That is how strong the influence of the Aswang folklore goes around my country. Well, my favorite reply for those kind of question is "Oh, haven't I mentioned it before, someone in my family is an Aswang" then I just watch in content as horror takes over their facial expression.
When i was a kid, me and my older sister experienced some mans footsteps walking on our roof, so what we did is we put some salt and garlic infront of our windows in the middle of the night
As a child, my mom would always scare me by saying "Ay, may momo diyan" meaning "Hey, theres a ghost there" and would point at the place where I'm walking towards. It worked all the time.
I think the Philippines' Manananggal is almost the same with Thailand's Krasue (although there's also a difference like Krasue flies only with her head and Manananggal flies with her upper extremities.)
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Learn more about the history of the Philippines at the Philippine National Historical Society (pnhs1941.org/) and the Filipino American National Historical Society (fanhs-national.org/filam/).
You should make about Leak from Bali. Indonesia. There are two types. The white/good one. The other is the evil/fire bloodsucking one
@@fajarloa2109 EXACTLY.AS I WAS SAYING IT COME FROM INDONESIA.WHERE THESE PINOYS CAME FROM
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I really love your show ma'am can you make some more like teniente gimo story or the other Filipino myths and legends?
Can you also have the special Halloween episode about spirit of the glass or widia board if my spelling is correct or third eye what is more spooky if the episode are telling how scary of seeing ghost and other creatures that can't see of human eyes or to summon spirit but your life is to paid for summon them.
Than why Awang house is Haunted ?
every filipino kid has an uncle who says they saw one in the province as a kid
Yeah, sometimes it's my parents saying they heard one as a kid
I heard one in antique but not really sure what is it it's just like someone is flying on your roof.
Yep. Primarily to scare you and obey your parents.
Yup
Oh but mine is my auntie
The irony: this is well researched than those of the local Filipino films.
I know right?????
Not really ironny
true, boo
@@chihirowitharocketlauncher3059 it kind of is
@@sandhyachristine7173 lol, no it's not. XD
Filipino films about local monsters are usually just not well researched, or they over exaggerate things to make it interesting.
That's not irony. That's a fact.
Pregnant lady : *sleeping peacefully*
Manananggal: *Swiggity Swaggaty your baby is my property*
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"There are many types of monsters in the Philippines that are labeled as Aswang but their appearance and habits divide them into subcategories." Some are in the City Hall, in the traffic management offices, in tax offices, Barangay halls, and Commission on Audit Office to name a few.
HaHAAA, government corruption!
I pretend to laugh here, but I'm actually crying on the inside at how the cancer that is corruption has managed to worm its way into every major government on the planet in this day and age.
some can be even located at your own family :)
most belong to both monsters and the animal kingdom like "buwaya"
Don't forget the place where the most hang out. The Church
You forgot the worst of them all, 200 oligarchs that control majority of the wealth of that country and they don't have full residence there. Yet, they seem to know how to sell your forest, your land for the US to dump their garbage, and any natural resources they can benefit from.
This is well researched, even into the sociological aspect of the myth of the manananggal! Kudos team!
And poor views of the Spaniards towards women in general is given value in the myth of the manananggal.
This is also how a social outcast got branded because he or she is old, lives alone on the village outskirts and dose not interact with the community that often.
@@angellazarus the popular "lynch-mob syndrome". People will just prosecute someone whom their hate or doesn't like on their community without proper procedure.
I know right
I like the Way she Pronounce the Mananangal, Ang sosyal we Filipinos Call it hahahaa👏👏👏👏😉😉😉
Can you feature the most popular monsters in Philippines?
The "Chismosas"
the shade LMAO
@@Lunara344 hahahahaha mga chismosas = stalker
jake martin pelletero gaga, 'chismosas' is female gossipers
Also known as Kapitbahays
Those creatures are the worst so be careful.
By the way, if you still want to continue on the Philippine mythological creatures, I have some few suggestions:
*MYTHICAL BEASTS* - They're humongous monsters that resembles animals.
*1. Baconaua/Bakunawa* _(a giant serpentine being that devoured 6 of the 7 moons in Philippine Mythology. )_
*2. Minokawa* _(Said to resemble a giant eagle. This creature could end any eclipse with its wings.)_
*3. Wakwak* _(A giant flying black beast that oddly resembles either a crow or a bat. This is basically our version of Mothman. It brings undescribable fear and nightmares to whoever lives to tale the tale. Its sound could instantly end one's breath.)_
*ASWANGS* - Collective term for humans who could transform into beast-like ghouls
*1. Regular Aswangs* _(People that transforms into these man-eating monsters at night. They typically have this Dog-like appearance. And that could be the reason why they are called Aswang, because "Dog" in Tagalog is "Aso". But other than dog, they could also look like pigs, cats, etc.)_
*2. Tiyanak* _(an abandoned demon baby that lures innocent people who have soft heart for kids. They feast on man-flesh. This is a variant of the Aswang class)_
*3. The Sigbin* _(A shapeshifting vampire-werewolf type creature, which is a variant of the Aswang creatures. As someone pointed out in the comment section, they can't shapeshift though, but it still depends on the region where you came from. I said vampire-werewolf hybrid, because of its nature of transformation and beast-like features but they're way worse because they full-on slaughter anyone. Their shapeshifting is unstable and constant, making them look uncanny and disgusting.)_
*4. Tiktik* _(This is already mentiomed on the video but why the hell not. An aswang type with long prehensile tongues that sucks the fetus out of a pregnant ladies. What this video misses to discuss is how those tongues are as tough as fucc and how sharp they are. Their tongues are basically weapons 😂)_
*5. Manananggal* _(The one mentioned in this video.)_
*ENGKANTOS* - Engkantos are collective term for powerful spirits from another world.
*1. Diwatas/Diwanis* _(These are goddess/fairy-like beings with humanoid appearance. But even though they're humanoid, they lack certain features like wrinkles, the weird gap between our nose and lips, fingerprints, etc. These lack of feafures is what makes them weirdly and other-worldly beautiful though. They're notable for luring handsome men and women to join their world, and to some extent, ranks. Yes, they're basically egotistic elitists who values beauty over anything else. They only bang beautiful people, so don't expect fro them to appear if you're not pretty/handsome. 😂)_
*2. Nuno sa Punso* _(They are dwarve-like creatures that hide on anthills. They can curse you or grant you wish depending on your attitude towards them. But they mostly curse people by making their limbs bloat. Important thing to note, they really love their anthill house so don't go destroying them, say "Tabi-tabi po" once you encounter one. Ofcourse these are just tales.)_
*3. Bangungot* _(This is the personification of Nigthmares in Philippine mythology. Her name literally means nightmare in Tagalog. They're usually portrayed as these oversized ladies with black skin and smokes, sitting on top of whoever's sleeping. Their eyes are yellow as fucc. Not a great roommate, gotta say.)_
*4. Kapre* _(Due to popular demand, I was forced to wrote this one 😂. Kapres are hairy chainsmoking giants that typically reside in Balete trees, which is a dwelling place for most supernatural beings here in he Philippines. They're sometimes portrayed in media as this wise, good-hearted, misjudged creature. But the most common description of witnesses of Kapres are their glaring red eyes, dark skin, mouth with sharp fangs and everflowing salivas, etc.)_
*5. Tikbalang* _(Reversed Centaurs; a huge muscular man with a wild horse as its head, another variant of the Aswang in some versions, but typically a guardian of nature. Also, there's a belief that when you managed to get hold of its hair, you can wish for anything.)_
*OTHERS* - The rest that don't fit the descriptions of other groups
*1. Bungisngis* _(It's a superstrong giant cyclops with elephant-like tusks protruding out of his mouth, because of that same tusks, it makes him look like he's smiling when he's in fact, not. And as the name suggest "Bungisngis", "Giggle" in English, it creates these giggling sounds whenever air passes through his mouth.)_
*2. Santelmo* _(Named after Saint Elmo, this thing is a flying ball of fire that chases people. That's it. 😂😂 Nothing notable here but that's what's interesting about it because its motivation is still unknown. Perhaps they're guarding treasures or planning a takeover of the world? 😂😂)_
*3. Shokoy* _(I don't really know where to put this guy. Shokoy are mermans. They are humanoid in form but their skin is covered with fishscales and they have gills. They also eat people, that's why I like to refer to this creature as an underwater aswang.)_
*4. Sirena or Sirens/Mermaids* _(This is also another hard one to classify since paranormal experts claim it to be spirit in appearance like Engkantos, but Filipino witnesses claim they are physical creatures. This myth is most definitely brought by Spaniards to the Philippines to monopolize the sea.)_
EDIT: I don't know why people are saying I copypasted this even though they have no proof to back it up and why my supposed "copypasting" is even triggering them. Get a life. 😂
Note that in some stories, the Tikbalang isn't a variant of the Aswang, but rather a guardian of the forest.
Okay, I’d definitely watch an episode on any of these!
Especially the werewolf/vampire one!
@@WillowFrancais Note that in modern folklore, "Aswang" in general are depicted as shape-shifting vampire-werewolf type creatures. Heck, I didn't even know about the Sigbin until I read this comment...
Huwag kakalimutan ang *Kapre* , which is a hybrid between Lorax and Shrek with a pretty bad smoking habit
The Tikblang isn't an Aswang though. Isn't it more like a forest guardian in the same of trolls/bigfoot? I've never heard of a Tikbalang eating humans.
"Okay lang naman maging manananggal, basta't wala kang tinatapakang Tao."
- Manananggal
HAHAYSHAHAHAJAHA
Kinakamay molang 😂😂😂😂
@@mrcedph869 😂😂
bwiset! hahahahahaha.. natawa ako ng di oras
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Westerners: We have this monster called the "vampire!" It's like a man, but he has fangs and drinks your blood!
Filipinos: That's cute.
*Ahahahaahahahahhaa, Well we also have the Aswangs which are practically Vampire-werewolf hybrid.* 😂😂😂
@@johnelmartagbago3764 and shape shifters dont forget about that.
@@johnelmartagbago3764 sigbins😭
We Filipinos have more than that
We have possessed babies with big eyes and weird mouth
Actually, vampires of western culture had more in common with zombies than Count Dracula.
"I think we should be seeing more of this creature"
*Me, a filipino: OH HELL NO*
Juskopo wag naman
@@thenewbiegamer9705 Tama ka Jan😌
I haven't seen ANY media about the thing (mostly because I don't watch horror movies), so... I'd like to seesomething about this monster.
@@Raccon_Detective. defining "cool" doesn't fit for these creatures. "Unique" should be the word or perhaps "Terrifying".
Nope nope nope oh hell no
Nobody:
Gordon Ramsay : *Season the lower-body*
Later add the seasoning for that punch.. and dont forget the lamb sauce
*Add some lambsauce to make it look gorgeous*
HAHAHAHHAHA
@@gordonramsayisstilllooking8114 and wait for the Mananangal to watch her die
Salt bae: am i a joke to you
I only knew salt would be effective as a filipino. When I heard the other ingredients..
I was like: Are we marinating the lower half? 😂
Adobong lower half ng aswang 🤣
@@yuzubij2998 tasty
We need Sir Travis Craft for this.
@@jmcartoons7281 tito travis HAHAHAHA
hot sauce too is so effective according to Shake Rattle and Roll of the mid 90s
Did anyone notice we didn't see Dr. Zarka's lower half in this video?
* narrows eyes *
**waves with intestine**
@@pbsstoried 😱
New Message her arms aren’t wings though
Monstrum BRUH
Lemme at yer isaw, bby
Do the
1 tiyanak- a monster looks like as a baby
2 tikbalang- half horse half man
3 kapre-a giant smoking that lives in a tree
Smoking what? Weed?
@@gonn7519 tabako
@@gonn7519 but basically your correct, its a type of weed
Madaming ganyan sa mga panunong lugar
ohhh..I can't wait for this guys to be shown in this video.
*As a Russian-Filipino, my mom sisters always use the mananangal stories to scare us when my siblings and I sneak out the door to go out at night.*
Imagine a manananggal in Russia hehehe... Lived in Norway for 1 yr, Im pretty sure even with a skin 3x thick than a normal person, any kind of aswang would find it difficult to prowl/fly when temp. hits -20 in Europe, especially in Russia... peace
You mean your aunt?
do you mean your titas (aunt)
...........
Mom: Be careful or this freaky halfbodied vampire from across the ocean will come to get you in the dark cold woods of Russia
Baba Yaga sizing up the kid to crush in her mortar for baking like a cake: NOT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY
Leshy listening from the dark cold woods he rules over: *That's cute*
There’s another monster called “chismosas” they are the type of monster that is like human who whispers to each other and suddenly people will hate you.
pinakascary na mumu HAHAHHA
@@Johanna-bf3mv IKR😭
@@pheo1299 sya pa yung mumung wala kang laban you dont know wat to duuu
Infected na yata subdivision namin😹
@@eniloracoiblies8263 Barangay nga lang bah marecakes
Hi there, I'm a Filipino anthropology student and I'd wanna add that when the Spanish arrived, it was pretty much Game of Thrones: there were at least three dominant "factions" at that time, Indianized Rajas, Islamic Sultans, or Native Datus. There were even reports of a state in the north with Chinese-inspired culture, probably due to trade with the Ming Dynasty (perhaps they were a tributary state of the Dynasty, I forget, it's been a while since I've checked out the National Museum).
Oh dude imagine a medieval fantasy RPG but in this setting! Imagine all the monsters and stats per faction.
Alam ko meron! Using Dungeons and Dragons 5e system though. It's a table-top RPG also. Not a video game. I'm not sure if there is video game.
@@thefakeJordan Sa ngayon, habang wala pang studio na nag-dedevelop, DnD muna tayo mga erp!
As an indie game dev you gave me an idea ^_^
@@cupcakemcsparklebutt9051 Make it happen, yo!
@@ZyozyoPadilla I'll get my team to work. Of course this is only a concept, once we pass that phase and reach a playable state, you'll be the first playtester :)
I remember every summer we used to go home to my mom’s province and their house was not concrete, it was a house made of wood and they would tell us to close the windows at night before sleeping because a mananaggal might get in and sometimes I can hear the trees moving and I could never sleep thinking it was a manananggal flapping its wings outside the house. TOTOL NIGHTMARE!!
Kong patay tayo, patay tayo
hm...this practice of shutting the windows can then be connected to one of the points she mentioned about the manananggal's tongue representing mosquitos (and the diseases they spread)
There was a funny story about a careless mananggal woman who just left her half body on the road. A way laid drunk found it, but instead of being afraid he decided to have a good time. So, after a month the manananggal got pregnant.
Sobrang scary
I mean... Who sleeps with their window open? I think almost every filipino shuts their window.
This is so well-researched. Even the cultural angle is accurate. Colonizers bent tons of traditions in the Philippines. This is a wonderful video. Plus, your voice is perfect. I'm subscribing! Hope you can make more videos from Philippine mythology and other mythologies in Southeast Asia. Kudos!
The sad thing about this is that many normal people had been mercilessly killed just because they're suspected as manananggals and aswangs. Most of them are women or old people who mostly live in rural areas where many still believe mythical creatures exist.
This piece is very well researched, with historical and sociological aspect of the Manananggal. Good job, Monstrus team!!
P.S. More Filipino mythology please!!
But its not a myth
i live in the philippines and there are more monsters you would not believe like the filipino dragon called bakunawa the moon eating dragon of the philippines. philippines had 7 moons and the bakunawa ate 6 moons the only way to save the moon is to make loud noises. if there is a solar eclipse some believe the bakunawa had sucsessfully ate the moon
Felix Sy what’re you talking about? its a famous filipino myth. everyone, especially those who live in provinces, has heard of the manananggal.
bonak ka sis? char ily hehe-
@@jumbohotdog7498 *He doesn't know what a "myth" is...* Whether these stories in Philippine folklores are true or not, they're still considered as Mythologies.
@@isaacbetnabet6721 *Oh my gosh! You also know the tale of Baconaua!*
I cannot say this enough: thank God and Goddess and all other major and minor deities for this channel! I obsess over folk tales, fairy tales, and mythology. This feeds my obsession so thoroughly. I had never heard of this being before. It's fascinating from an anthropological perspective and from a good storytelling perspective.
Kapre: *Chillin in a mango tree with a cigarette*
*Weed smoking Horse chillin' on a tree*
*"Im a half macho dancer, half stallion"*
@@aureusknighstar2195 when the night falls, im a terrorizing horse
@@kokushibo8375 lady watch your back cuz I hung lika a horse
@@aureusknighstar2195 ask ur nanay about this mythical creatures known to every filipino's
This reminds me of the Nukekubi, a Japanese yokai. It's a woman whose head detaches when asleep and flies around sucking blood. Just like the Manananggal you can't really tell during nighttimes whether a woman is a Nukekubi or not
oh I remember Yokai Watch because of that
There’s also the Japanese film Teke Teke
Its really interesting how asian ghost stories almost have similar ghosts too. In Malaysia, we call it penanggal. Just like nukekubi, it detaches their head from the body but also their internal organs.
@V yess krasue is the name in thailand if im not mistaken, malaysia penanggal, philipenes mananggal
The Nukekubi is more similar to the Malaysian Penanggal, which too detaches it's head in the evening.
I’m really glad you get to highlight monsters from other cultures that those of us in the States may not have heard of. Monsters like vampires and werewolves are interesting to learn about, but they’re a bit overdone. Glad PBS has this show!!
Her pronunciation of mananangal is soo innocent and pure , at least she tried her best !!!
Mani nong gull
Manonunngul
Aswong
@@danasappayanihamdani3377 oo nga mananggul
@@bl4z3gaming44 hahahahahaha ano yann
Wait, how is it supposed to be pronounced then? I am total confusion.
TH-cam: *lets recommend this to every filipino on our app.*
The same I am a south African and they recommended the tokoloshe video
I'm not Filipino(I'm actually Turkish) but this got recommended to me, thanks, youtube.
Amber THW haha
Even Indonesian like me got this recommended and I thought it was kuyang (looks similar actually but slightly difference)
Oh yeah
This monster is very common in south east Asia, every country and area has their own name for it, from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Philippines
really? i didn't knew that. can you give the names or an example from different country? I'd like to check on it.
Penanggal in malaysia
We call it balan balan here in Borneo
Thailand has a similar one called Krasue
@@JamJam-zq9rr kuyang or palasik in indonesia
This is so well-researched, I never connected the manananggal's origin story and the consumption of balut.
LUL Connected
OhmyGod
I agree
HOLY-
balut taste so good
I love the way the manananggal was featured... it's one of the monsters that didn't let me sleep when I was a kid. When you hear weird sounds coming from the roof, that is a manananggal/aswang...
hehe..
ive heard wierd sounds in our roof
and walkings sounds outside of our garden
in which coincidently is right next to our room..
Same.. it gives me CHILLS Every damn night back then.. lol
same here in mindanao
@Eugene Flores yep, i can relate to that.
It is said that if the sound is loud then the aswang is far from you and the exact opposite when the sound is faint.
And my mother used to say that if the pregnant woman wants to go outside at night, she needs to wear black clothes to hide her belly.
Or don't go out at all, at night.
This myth is a complete backwards fabrication. obviously we would need to hide their belly during the day. Our modern culture is very blessings and slander the sit-in locks and the littles
Spanish conquistadors: I found this scary creature in Filipinas.
Dutch and English Traders: We have that too from our colonies.
Mananaggal can have relationships and get married. So imagine you somehow married one and didn't know she's a mananggal. One night, you guys were getting it on. That night, your stroke game was on point and then she came so hard that her body separated.
HAHAHAHAH thats so fucked up
@@halo2460 true
HAHAHAHHA that's gross
I just choked. Call 911 this instant
911 i need you to check this one pleas-
Pregnant lady just vibing
Mananangal: It's Free Real Estate
Actually is free buffet.
Romania:we have our own vampires
Southeast Asia:we have more
Our Vampires are Varied
SE Asia: And they're more dangerous AF 😂😂
@@Classica_1750 yeah. There is also this humanoid-troll like creature in Bicol folklore known as Rabot. It turn creatures into stones that wanders into its den, also a character in the bicol epic Ibalon
@Le Frog tikbalang?
This is starting a war
Growing up in the Philippines, i've experienced countless unexplainable things and stories that are pass down by generations. It's exciting to hear but it really terrifies me as a child.
In the philippines theres lot of scary things like:
Kapre
Nuno
Tikbalang
Ung adik sa kanto
at ung adik sa kanto
white van
Alright. Made me chuckle.
Haha 😆 pati na rin yong mga rapists
White ladie
Duterte...enough said
as a kid who grew up on Filipino Halloween specials, going out at night is terrifying
there's no Halloween on some parts of the Philippines
@@Bedburrito There is Halloween in the Philippines, in case you don't know Undas also known as All Saints Day is also called All Hallows Day or Hallowmas. During the 90's, MGB's Halloween specials gave us nightmares for days, and the whole first week of November felt really depressing. That almost no kid would stay out til 6pm due to fear of engkantos, white ladies, and aswangs.
@@ayemjake no that's different from halloween
I born on nov.1 hahahahahahahahahahhahaha
>:))))))
Im scorpio
Scorpio=evil
>:)
Body Cut in Half:
Filipinos: Let's Season It.
ne
😂😂
😂😂😂😂
More like putting salt into it
Insert Chili powder and peppers😂😂
i swear every Filipino has that one person in their life from the province who swears they were attacked or saw this thing
Maybe they did see it. I saw one myself, but it turned out it was my sister.
I see it 2 times every power enteruption its flying and look like black thing
It's true. Several of our neighbor were attacked, and my father was almost attacked too. One of the victim almost died due to severe bleeding near pulse. But it's not manananggal, just aswang.
@lia_berry 🍓 totoo, hahaha di mo lng kasi naranasan.
@@johnsecret1318 ako nakakita na sa Puno nang isang bukid isang gabi
Nobody:
Manananggal: I'm a long distance French kisser.
She was social distancing before it was a requirement ;)
@@theblurredlights HAHAHAHAHHAHA
Omg HAHAHHA
Mmm le frech succ
When you asked her wat dat tongue do.
When my mother was giving birth to me . My parents said there was a manananggal in the roof waiting for me to be eaten . But my father has a wood sculpted sword 🗡️ they said the manananggal was scared of that sword because of its mystical properties
Sorry for my English hehe
They should have sprayed salt to the corners of your house
dude same they'd even tell me that they'll hear noises from the roof
Eh, it's fine. Perfection with English doesn't really matter much in the internet. For the most part, anyway. But yeah, salt works too, as mentioned by Chrielo. Especially the verbal kind.
Also, did anyone else's parents try and scare them to sleep with 'ibukawa?'
REALLY DID U SEE IT?
@@ilikeeggs877 Their Mom was still Giving birth to Them.
OF course They didnt see it bruh 🙈
As an American, having served in the Navy(1979 - 1999), my first visit to the Philippines was in 1980. I had never heard of folklore of any kind coming out of the Philippines. Long story, short, I saw this. For nearly all my time in the Navy from time to time I told fellow shipmates wherever I was stationed about what I had seen, but never knew what it was called. In 1998 while aboard ship, I was sitting around and telling what I had seen(or thought I had seen) in 1980. One of those listening was a Filipino sailor. He rushed everyone out of the office, except me. He wanted me to repeat the story. Afterwards he told me what I had seen. He explained it as folklore. He told me the name. Their are parts to this commentary I am not telling, because it would take too long, It's REAL!!!. Why it happened to me, I can't explain, but it's real.
Manananggal & tiktik are real bro
While I appreciate the research that went into this piece, the fact that we season balut with salt, vinegar, chilies is because that's how we spice up our food. We're partial to sour, salty, garlicky and spicy flavors. Just look at popular Filipino dishes like adobo (not to be confused with the Spanish adobo sauce), which is pork and/or chicken stewed in vinegar, soy sauce, garlick, and pepper corns.
I was also hoping to see a connection with the Indo-Malay Penanggalan, a similar creature found in nearby South East Asian countries. The main difference between the Penanggalan and the Manananggal are the way they segment -- the Penanggalan detaches its head and its internal organs from its body, so that you get a floating head with a heart, lungs, stomach, and intestines dangling from it.
Interestingly, it appears that both the Penanggalan and Manananggal are usually depicted as female, so the miscarriage monster appears to have always been a woman, even without the intervention of Spanish colonists.
Roach
Wait, there's such a thing as Spanish Adobo!? That's new to me.
Me: *hears a clattering above the roof* [panic]
Mom: *arrives*
Me: [calm]
Mom: I'm pregnant
Me: [panic]
oh no💀
I can see Stonks
Americans:l*lights flamethrower*
Get the salt
Americans: "is this some incest joke?"
SE Asians: well yes, but actually no
Also do the "Kapre"
a giant tobacco smoking monster always on a huge ass tree just staring at humans
That's one way to describe it
I've always wonder why the "Kapre" doesn't have tuberculosis
@Eugene Flores Idk yeah there like a human but hey its still a theory, a culture theory.
You mean my grandpa
Hey Kapres are known as the guardian of the forest and trees. There were some good and some who were bad ☺️☺️☺️
I just recently watched TRESE. So YT is smart enough to recommend this video and I love it.
I'm glad you featured this here. We got tons of monsters too. Cheers!
Hey look a culture with gender equality and reasonable marriage laws.
Spain: *REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
lmao thanks for the laughs
@@mikoy9241 yeah but, gay used to be allowed
@@mikoy9241 Not really. It was matriarchal. Women could own their own property and pass down her own name. There were even villages that were headed by women. Read more.
😆😂
Oh wait. Women are on equal footing as men. Can't have that.
I like how the grossest thing in this video about a horrifying self-dismembering vampire is the duck-eggs.
nah, balut taste awesome
@LagiNaLangAko23 it's funny because when we it balut it's unlucky for us if one of our eggs don't have the chick
They taste good but weird tbh
Quacks.
@LagiNaLangAko23 penoy is better than ducks bcos duck embryo has more feathers and bigger in size😭
Haha. So cool that this was featured. Growing up in the Philippines, you have no idea how it freaks people out when they hear the sound of the wings in the provinces and especially if there's a pregnant woman. It really tickles your imagination, I don't really believe in monsters but you can't help it but feel chills especially during a silent night in the provinces and all of a sudden you hear the sound of huge wings in the rooftop. Probably just an owl but we'll, you never know... Hehe
"a woman is transformed to a manananggal if she eats a baby black chicken..."
oh ok not that odd...
"...that has been produced from the throat of an older existing manananggal"
WHAT
Once, again, shout outs to the illustrators. Great spooky work. And the tiny bat on your neck! Lovely little details.
The ribbon is also a gross little homage...
I never expected you to do a Filipino one, this is the best Christmas gift ever 😁
There’s a creature similar to this in Thai folklore too. It’s called “กระสือ/KraSue”. And there’s a male version but with different body features called “กระหัง/KraHung”. The stories about these creatures have been around for ages and ages. Wonder if you heard of it in your study too? I’m curious of the linkage between the ones told in Thai folklore and the Philippines folklore. Our country used to eat balut long ago. It’s not eaten here much if not at all anymore. This episode is very interesting. Thanks for making this entire series.
ohh, i didn't know balut was a thing there and we have a similar folklore. Maybe it's something here in asia or in our part of asia?🤷🏽♀️ I saw a comment saying there's something similar to it, but they suck blood and it's their head that deattaches? And here, balut is still eaten! :0
I was going to say this too! They must’ve some kind of connection for sure. They’re just like กระสือ but with bat wings
The only common denominator I could find with the lore for both countries and for the whole SEA region, even NEA region is the influence we got from ancient India.
In India they are called dayan but dayan don't have wings neither their body part deattached instead they have ghost around them who demand something from daayan
Manannagal: I'm coming for your children
Gordon Ramsey: alright it's seasoning time!
Need salt bae on the team too
Also needed lamb sauce
It's raw
First we add the olive oil
Corazon
As a person from South East Asia, I feel that the Mannanaggal has very similar features to Krasue(Thailand), Kasu(Laos) and Ahp(Cambodia).
All of them feature floating detached women with intestine.
Indonesian here, we call it "Kuyang". Its really interesting that we have the same creature in our culture 🙌
Penanggal in Malaysia
maybe this means it does exist O___O"
yes it is my friend...it came from the tagalog word TANG-GAL meaning to remove..japan also has its version though.. a creature that its head flies off every night and gets back in the morning.. I forgot the name but its something called "gorebi rebi"
@@BLeDude living in southeast asia makes this scarier
Very well done Doctor and the rest of Monstrum team! My grandma used to have a "Kriss" or the wavy dagger lying around in case a Manananggal goes about the house. There are more monsters in the Philippines that you can feature, like the Tikbalang. We'll just wait for them on the next episodes. Salamat!!!
7:17 Ya'll forgot the "Buntot pagi" or Stingray's tail.
Yeah, same here
murder victim's mutilated lower half is found:
people: who could have done this
murderer, sweating: oh haven't you heard?
Yeah pro tips for murderer in Philippine, just cut the woman in half, and separate it, if the body found just called it manananggal hehehe
@@ragman6035 and put some vinegar an salt on it HAHAHAHA
Take a bucket of glass shards, put one kilogram of salt, crushed whole garlic, litre of holy water from the nearest Church.
Why not have fun with it before killing the damn thing?
@@Raiden6277 necrophilia
4:29 "Divorce was socially acceptable and could be initiated by either party."
As a political science student who has researched the illegality of divorce in modern day Philippines, this blows my mind.
roman catholic removed divorce
StruggleOn yeah it's sad that they had some equality in marriage and societal roles, but it was taken away. I guess some indigenous cultures were more open minded of women's potential.
Colonialism ruined lots of things.
And that's how chauvinism always tried and tries to undermine women in society, I profoundly HATE religions, ALL OF THEM just because NONE puts women in equal footing as men. Such a tragedy the indigenous religion and way of life was so thoroughly destroyed by European Christians. Such a shame.
thanks but no thanks to the catholic church
I highly recommend "Tiyanak". It's a monstrous baby.
j a Too soon. Can we at least wait until his presidency is over?
@@studyzen8836 😂😂
I like how you phrase it
Spoiler, Tiyanak is just a bird that sounds like a baby😂
me and my cousins heard a crying baby in the woods one evening. we knew it was a tiyanak. we ran like hell. yawa.
The old folks also say that the loudness of the flapping of its wings work the opposite way.
When it's far away, it's loud. But the more quiet it gets, the closer it is to you.
In Malaysia we call it Penanggal ( Pronounced: PA NUNG GULL) usually they detached the whole body. Just a head flying around with intestines.
😂😂 I'm sorry but this made me laugh
just a head? HAHAHA
@@J11_boohoo a floating head but it's intestines are still connected so it's a disgusting sight
Dunno if that's scarier or hilarious, but...why keep the digestive tract connected to the head, instead of the spinal cord/neural system?
Jaime Leogárdo why ask? It’s a belief
@@J11_boohoo I guess that flew over your head lol
Okay, so in case you didn't know, the intestines are not at all connected to the head, so if we force the floating head to have intestines hanging from it, then it would also need to drag the entire ~30 feet of the digestive tract (including the oesophagus and stomach) behind it - I would imagine that this would be a little impractical for a creature that wants to stay hidden.
Now, if we say the head is literally just dragging the intestines, then how would this work - did the monster specifically cut out its intestines and glue them to its floating head? Even then, the head would still be dragging ~25 feet of intestine, since it's basically just a long tube.
Whereas, a floating head with the spinal cord hanging from it would cast a silhouette approximately just a meter or so tall (almost neatly corresponding to the upper half of a human body).
So - why comment on my question without adding any value to the overall discussion?
Bram Stoker: I've created a literary blood sucker that no one will surpass!
Philippines: Hold my beer....
Hold my balut.
Alisha Herbitter You want some vinegar and salt with that?
LOL HAHAHA funniest comment I’ve seen so far
Philippines: lol repost
Hold my tuba
This is the most accurate description of Manananggal. Good Job
From a Filipino artist and mythology enthusiast, this is a very commendable video! Now you need to make a follow up with the Tikbalang, and then the Bakunawa!
Westerners: We have vampires and werewolves!
Filipinos: Pft. You can't hold a candle to us.
Haha, horseheads, tree ogres, mischievous tiny dwarf elf things, shapeshifters, forest spirits, you name it, we have it.
It's more fun in the Philippines, as advertisers say.
This is why we need Aswangjaegers.
@@Greenierw 😂
Seriously tho, I think we already have those. We have what would be our own variant of vampire hunters. My great grandfather used to hunt aswang and others back in his day with his agimat and itak. There are others like him.
@@MrBlorp-sf9ye we already have those? oof, but imagine military forces hunting down vampires with automatic weaponry lol
@@Greenierw That would be so badass, sign me right up! Imagine if only bladed weapons worked and you could customize your own! 😮
maybe emily is one ... we never see her legs ..
Yuyu
nah thats pewdiepie
who?
in Malaysia, this kind of demon/ghost is called Penanggal. Interesting to see the similarities.
Maybe because the Philippines and Malaysia have almost the same cultures.
@@andrewvillafuerte5590 penanggal actually separate their head followed by the organs so ugh and they dont have wings
And why SEA ghost and monster mostly women not men just WHY?
also not sure why only manananggal are women, but other aswang do have males, like the shapeshifters (those who can change their form from human to either a very large: dog, cat, pig, bird, etc.... and in rare cases, an oversized carabao with glowing red eyes).
Man Asia hates babies
@@muhdhanif9222 Hey man, we have kapre and tikbalang too, which are male. The former is best-descried as a tree-troll that smokes giant cigars, while the latter is a backwards centaur (horse top, human bottom).
Gotta season the legs to give it a good brine. Really brings out the umami. And a great way to get back at the monster.
As a Filipino, I am more scared of the Mananangal than the western Vampire or even the Warewolf 😂
that's because of the western media turning them into a hot husbandos that gives women unrealistic expectations to us men, instead of making them even more horrifying
In America, there’s something called a wendigo. I suggest you look into it if you think westerners don’t have something scary in our territory
@@Raccon_Detective. werewolf is similar to sigbin
Honestly these seem a lot more managable than a Werewolf or a vampire.
@@aldrich_leon8547 To be fair, they've been doing that since the medieval times
Probably should be the official ASEAN monster, because she's everywhere in the region
1:24 sounds like "menanggal" for me, it means "to remove/seperate" in Malay. How were both of the languages' meanings so a bit similar.
In Filipino, "manananggal" means "the remover" or something like that.
@@longlongthepro18 Yep, nearly a perfect translation, though I'm not too sure myself. 'Tanggal' means to remove, and you can add either 'taga-' or 'mana-' to it to change the word's meaning to 'one who removes.'
I guess they just used 'manananggal' as opposed to 'taga-tanggal' because the latter sounds more like an occupation and is harder to say, but who am I to say? I'm just a kid, not like kids have any rights to anything here in the Philippines.
Edit: I hate it when I make typos
Polynesian Migration
Filipino's ancestors predominantly comes from the Malays and Indonesians. Chinese and Japanese ancestry in the northern parts too. The indigenous Aeta were already the inhabitants of the Philippines before everyone else. They look like small africans.
Malay and Filipino are both in the same language family. That is why. They are sister languages.
After watching Trese in Netflix, I kinda wanna simp with that manananggal even if she was supposed to be scary. LOL 🤣
We also have kapre, tiktik, aswang, nuno, mangba-barang/ witch, etc...
New waifu? HAHAHA
*basilio and crispin simping intensifies*
Who wouldn't
@@viviananislagon1322 also kapre just wanna scare
Manananggal: exists*
Bawang: I'm gonna end this aswang's whole career
DIO talk about his possible relative lol
they doesnt scared of garlic
they just dont likes the smell of it,
my aunt told me about this because his childhood friend was one of them,
@@levigaming2711 BUT THEY DEFINITELY WILL GET SCARED OF HAMON! *SUNLIGHT YELLOW OVERDRIVE!!!!!*
Give back jonathan body 1!1!1
Hell yeah!
Thailand : Krasue
Malaysia : Penanggal
Indonesia : Leyak
Philippine : Manananggal
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Ours are more stronger (Philippines)
@@justacat3819 what? it's a competition now?
@@justacat3819 nakakahiya ka tangina mo 🤣
@@justacat3819 tangina mu gagu pakyu ka
Yes finally popular na ako
She has formed a show and work and an income in something she is passionate about that people her entire life probably told her she was crazy for studying. I greatly admire you, please, continue with this show and profession, it's gorgeous!
The world needs to listen, all of these stories are existing even in the modern times.
Curiosity: can you fly and hunt during afternoon.
Manananggal: no, the sun is a deadly lazerrrrr....
Passerby: oh, you're fighting a mananggal? How brave of you!
The local cannibal who's adding spices to their leftovers: . . . Sure, lets go with that
This gives me "It's the same type of stand as my star platinum" vibes.
I love when she pronounce "aswang" and "manananggal"
As a kid living in the province of the Philippines manananggal has been my worst nightmare
I was so scared of it when I was a kid. Everytime there was some sort of scratching noise outside I was like "welp the manananggal is here"
In hind sight it was probably stray cats scratching their claws on wood posts, but I like to think I survived several manananggal attacks lol
Or when you hear noises on your rooftop at night.
Me hahaha
Some aswangs are said to shapeshift into pigs, dogs, or cats.....
@@prosimian beast boy can do better.
This is easily the most metal monster that you've covered yet. \m/
Hehe, there are tons more
create a metal band and name it.. mananang ghouls
@@kevin080592 or mananang gals
@@fluffydestroyer5482 hahaha..I like that! #goodjokeofthemonth #shutupandtakemymoney
@@kevin080592 i actually don't know if you're being sarcastic or not...
When my mother woke up in the Middle of the dead of night, she heard hard flapping sounds on our roof. Whats more scary is that the fact that my mom was pregnant.
For real?
and also if the dogs outside are growling it means there's a Aswang out there finding a pregnant woman.
And are you a Filipino!?
@@WhyamIevenlikethis evangelista. Sounds like one
Chimken
I lived in the province my entire life and there's a bunch of stories about these. Including my mom when she was pregnant and it was me who's in her belly, she said there's one night that she was alone and she heard a loud bang on the roof, hinting that it was a manananggal who just landed, but she got a bunch of things to counter it, like garlic, salt and most importantly, the tail of a stingray which is apparently really effective in fighting off those mystical creatures but even then she was too scared that she's shaking and immediately called her brother who's in a party because my dad is working far away in Manila.
There's many more stories, tho until now I haven't seen any of those and I DON'T want to see any of them. Despite this, I still go out in the middle of the night to buy some ice cream, since in my head, I'm thinking, it's 2021, their population should be at minimum. lol
Let me correct the CGI... The lower half still stands...
it actually varies from story teller to story teller. Some parts could be jumbled up to the point it varies from the original. Like in the version that was told me when I was a kid, the manananggal is said to be immortal in flesh but not in spirit, that's why instead of stabbing the body you need to stab the shadow instead. I have listened to a lot of versions of it when I was a kid to the point that I don't believe them them anymore as a kid because of the lack of inconsistency 😂
yep and they still have arms they dont turn into wings
Bobo! Di porke naka tayo nakikita mo sa mga Pinoy Movies e naka tayo na talaga yun. Naka tayo lang talaga ang mga ginagawa ng mga pinoy kasi madali lang gawan ng paraan like maniquin, at di nila kayang gawing maka tutuhanan yung shots kasi mahirap gayahin yung pag tumba ng kalahating katawan. Tanga.
marami ako nababasa na libro tungkol sa naiiwan na parte na katawan ng manananggal, at halos lahat sa mga kwento sinasabi na nakatago yung ibaba madalas sa kung saan may puno ng saging... at nakatayo ito... ngunit, may isa ako narinig na kwento (di ko alam kung fiction ito o memory lang) na yung ibabang parte kaya rin maglakad ng mag isa pero wala pa ako naririnig o nababasa na humihiga yung ibabang parte pag hiwalay ng katawan niya.
@Doom Slayer yes 😊
Manananggal: **transforms**
Necrophiliac: "It's free real estate."
Nooooooo. Ya nasty🤣🤣
Step 1: find creatures lower part
Step 2: Take it home country road to the place ALABAMA😂😂😂😂
@@brandleythecat4570 I might also add some lubricant to that vinegar and salt.
True that bro
The Unknown way to stop a Manananggal that only Brave people do
Saw one when I was a child and during in high school (a full boarding school). It was horrifying. In Malaysia especially in Sabah, we call this Penanggalan, penanggal or Balan-balan. It is tradition (still practice until today by few) for women to protect themselves and their newborn child from penanggalan with lime, iron nails and lime tree branches. For us, this creature comes from people who practices black magic and sometimes pass down through consuming some sort of salt from the practitioner or swallowing small birds that comes out from the practitioner's mouth.
yes its called penanggal and balan balan in malaysia. do you see it. really??
@@princessfarahify Yes. Saw it entered the bathroom when I was going to take a leak at 2 am. Had to hold my urge to pee and quietly went back to bed. Got sick the next day but unable to say anything to my dorm mates cause I don't want to scare them. That is the first and last time ever saw one. Would not want to see that again T_T
Wow. It's so similar, Mananangals also target pregnant women and babies here, sometimes people call them Balbal (some other types of Aswangs are also described balbal, depending on the region), what we use to ward it off here is garlic, stingray tail, salt(used for most ghouls as curses) and lana(oil mixed with roots and had been enchanted with curses/spells in old language, with the local language but usually latin)
Say if you could recall what you saw did it only have it's head or it included the torso, from what I remember Penanggal is only the head with it's innards.
Swallowing a black stone or mutya in other terms
Thanks for putting this on mainstream
Most filipino mythology characters are "beautiful woman or hard working man"
Wow: this likes, i have never gotten this before
Even the origin of humanity in our mythology was kinda hilarious.
Humanity was made through mud and God somehow failed watching them being cooked.
White People - mud is kinda raw since God made a mistake and took them out earlier than they are supposed to.
Black People - God forgot that he was cooking some molded mud and fucked it up by being a dumbass. Instead of throwing them away he decided to let them exist despite of being burnt (kinda racist, I know...)
Brown People - God finally managed to create "perfect" mud for human. It is not raw nor burnt.
Most Filipino folklores and myths favors the Filipino.
Angelo Balcueba and thats why i love Christianity😂
@@angelobalcueba7081 It's really hilarious but I like that🤣♥️
@@angelobalcueba7081 I love it.
@@angelobalcueba7081 this is prolly the most Filipino pride origin story I've ever heard.
"said to look like a beautiful woman..."
*looks at host
Oookaaay....
@Shriyansh Pandey 😮
@@LucasSantos-ss6ou Its just mach meatheads who use the word "simp". Wouldn't worry about it.
As a kid who grew up in the "Aswang Capital of the Philippines", Capiz, the mere mention of this kind of story brings chills to my bones. Before the internet, my generation was taught all almost every sub-species of Aswang our parents and grandparents could recall from the stories they were also taught when thay are young. The Capiznon nightlife was really non-existent until a generation later from mine (hence the influence of the internet).
Anyway, as a Capiznon myself, whenever I travel to any parts of the country, I was always asked the moment I talked about my hometown, "Is it true there are Aswangs in you place?" or "Have you seen/heared any of these Aswang?" That is how strong the influence of the Aswang folklore goes around my country. Well, my favorite reply for those kind of question is "Oh, haven't I mentioned it before, someone in my family is an Aswang" then I just watch in content as horror takes over their facial expression.
When i was a kid, me and my older sister experienced some mans footsteps walking on our roof, so what we did is we put some salt and garlic infront of our windows in the middle of the night
Santa likes cookies and milk. :)
As a child, my mom would always scare me by saying "Ay, may momo diyan" meaning "Hey, theres a ghost there" and would point at the place where I'm walking towards. It worked all the time.
@Dino Voldo, SAME!! LOL
or they use bumbay will take u if dont sleep in the afternoon
@@takitobutface6805 sino si bumbay?
they also use pulis, "ayan na kukunin ka na ng mamang pulis" the pulis will catch you. LOL!
Me to my sister everytime
I think the Philippines' Manananggal is almost the same with Thailand's Krasue (although there's also a difference like Krasue flies only with her head and Manananggal flies with her upper extremities.)
Yeah
Yes, most of southeast asian countries have Krasue (Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand etc). Philippines changed it a bit.
Penanggal or langsuir in Malaysia, fly with her upper body part with dangling innards. But without the wings tho
@@balromasant i thought langsuir is the one that screams at night? are they the same as penanggal?
A flying head is definitely way creepier than a flying half bodied woman
wait so my mind just translated the word like:
manananggal = remover
Well that's correct since the root word "Tanggal" means remove
It does
Yeah, that’s basically it/
It's either that or taga-tanggal
In Malay, it is called penanggal which means detacher. Still from the root word tanggal means detach, separate or remove.
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