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Pugot: Evolution of the Headless Filipino Ghoul
Pugot: Evolution of the Headless Filipino Ghoul
Among the Ilocanos and Pampangos, the Pugot was a nocturnal spirit, usually in the form of a gigantic negro figure, terrifying, but not particularly harmful. It corresponded to the Tagalog Kapre, which eventually took ownership of the Pugot’s early attributes. Its power of rapid transformation made it a more or less formidable opponent. Sometimes it took the form of a cat with fiery eyes, a minute later appearing as a large dog.
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Published at 2018-01-27 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore
Tags: Kapre, Pugot, ghouls
Legend of the Agta | the Eastern Visayan Tree-Dweller
Legend of the Agta | the Eastern Visayan Tree-Dweller
One of the many joys I have in running The Aswang Project blog is reading the messages and emails I receives from curious minds. These often become the inspiration for future posts. In my short documentary, “Kapre: The Tree Dweller”, I traced back the first use of the term “cafre” being used to name mythical creatures.
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Published at 2018-01-24 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore
Tags: Agta, Kapre, Pugot
Philippine Mythology: A Chart of the Deities, Creatures & Heroes
Philippine Mythology: A Chart of the Deities, Creatures & Heroes
I’m a very visual person. My office wall is plastered with thumb tacks, maps and strings from when I charted out the history and evolution of the Tikbalang and Kapre for the Creatures of Philippine Mythology web series I am working on. As I began researching future episodes (Bakunawa, Diwata, Tiyanak, and Manananggal), I realized that I was stuck in a labour intensive repetition of the research I had done previously.
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Published at 2018-01-26 by Puerto Parrot
Categories : Culture, Mythology & folklore
Tags: Heroes, Kapre, Mythology, Tikbalang