Jet
04-09-2004, 07:11 AM
Well, here is where u can post the "scary" legends/stories that u know... I decided to make this cause' it seems... interesting... =P
Anyway, here's some from my country:
KAPRE-legendary being of immense size & strenght; The Philippine version of the mythical European giant; Always described smoking an enormous cigar and naked from the waist up; Thought to reside on the branches of enchanted Balete trees & believed to terrorize people who gets lost in forests usually misled by the tiyanak.
TIYANAK- (Quote from J. Arevalo)
I travel a great deal around Asia; in fact, you might call this part of the world my second home. Not so long ago, I was in the Philippines, in a particularly poor and rural area of Cebu. One night, a friend and I were walking home, a little soused from the native San Miguel Beer, when we heard a baby crying.
We looked around: the nearest hut was hundreds of yards away and there was only moonlight to illuminate the deserted road. There was no electricity. Even the numerous bony stray dogs panting by the roadside had seemingly disappeared. The wailing persisted; indeed, it seemed quite close, scarcely a few feet away. I started to enter the tall cogon grass to search for the child, when my friend pulled me back.
"Don't go in there," he said, sweating now. "It's not a real baby. It's a tiyanak."
"What?" I said. "What's a tiyanak? What are you talking about? You're drunk as a skunk."
"It's a demon. A demon baby. It looks like a normal baby at first, but it's not. Trust me. It's not human. It's from impiyerno [hell].
At that, the crying stopped. And then a few feet away, the long grass began to move, as if a small animal were making its way towards us. The hair stood up on the back of my neck; the "animal" was also making weird snuffling noises, like a child with a cold. In the distance, a monkey began to scream, as if someone were cutting its throat. If we had been slightly beer-befuddled, that feeling had utterly disappeared. My friend plucked frenziedly at my arm and he began to sob with fear. "Let's go! Let's go! It's coming this way. It's late, there are no babies out here in the middle of nowhere. IT'S A TIYANAK, I TELL YOU!"
The snuffling noises, accompanied now by a weird demented giggling, became louder -- whatever it was, it was only a few feet away. We took off, running as fast as our beat-up old Adidas could take us, and we did not stop running until we had reached the tiny village church. I never did learn if that thing in the grass was really a tiyanak. But my friend left the village soon after.
MANANANGGAL-mythical “vampire-like” being, often a woman, with no lower limbs and has bat-like wings. Uses its proboscis-like tongue to suck-out unborn children from their mothers' wombs; Has the ability to transform to various animals in order to avoid capture & lives as a normal human beings during the day; Can only be killed by finding it's lower half (from the waist down) & smearing it with crushed garlic.
Anyway, here's some from my country:
KAPRE-legendary being of immense size & strenght; The Philippine version of the mythical European giant; Always described smoking an enormous cigar and naked from the waist up; Thought to reside on the branches of enchanted Balete trees & believed to terrorize people who gets lost in forests usually misled by the tiyanak.
TIYANAK- (Quote from J. Arevalo)
I travel a great deal around Asia; in fact, you might call this part of the world my second home. Not so long ago, I was in the Philippines, in a particularly poor and rural area of Cebu. One night, a friend and I were walking home, a little soused from the native San Miguel Beer, when we heard a baby crying.
We looked around: the nearest hut was hundreds of yards away and there was only moonlight to illuminate the deserted road. There was no electricity. Even the numerous bony stray dogs panting by the roadside had seemingly disappeared. The wailing persisted; indeed, it seemed quite close, scarcely a few feet away. I started to enter the tall cogon grass to search for the child, when my friend pulled me back.
"Don't go in there," he said, sweating now. "It's not a real baby. It's a tiyanak."
"What?" I said. "What's a tiyanak? What are you talking about? You're drunk as a skunk."
"It's a demon. A demon baby. It looks like a normal baby at first, but it's not. Trust me. It's not human. It's from impiyerno [hell].
At that, the crying stopped. And then a few feet away, the long grass began to move, as if a small animal were making its way towards us. The hair stood up on the back of my neck; the "animal" was also making weird snuffling noises, like a child with a cold. In the distance, a monkey began to scream, as if someone were cutting its throat. If we had been slightly beer-befuddled, that feeling had utterly disappeared. My friend plucked frenziedly at my arm and he began to sob with fear. "Let's go! Let's go! It's coming this way. It's late, there are no babies out here in the middle of nowhere. IT'S A TIYANAK, I TELL YOU!"
The snuffling noises, accompanied now by a weird demented giggling, became louder -- whatever it was, it was only a few feet away. We took off, running as fast as our beat-up old Adidas could take us, and we did not stop running until we had reached the tiny village church. I never did learn if that thing in the grass was really a tiyanak. But my friend left the village soon after.
MANANANGGAL-mythical “vampire-like” being, often a woman, with no lower limbs and has bat-like wings. Uses its proboscis-like tongue to suck-out unborn children from their mothers' wombs; Has the ability to transform to various animals in order to avoid capture & lives as a normal human beings during the day; Can only be killed by finding it's lower half (from the waist down) & smearing it with crushed garlic.