#Halimaween 2021

Day Creature Name Creature Description
1 Bulalakaw Small women with long hair appearing like strands of fire covering their bodies. They fly and travel horizontally in a sloping manner starting from a point of origin usually a stream or a shallow well and disappear upon reaching the destination. It is believed they are messengers of some Diwata.
2 Dwende They are little men with short limbs but with large hands and feet. Their fingers are long and bony with long and hard nails. Their face is round with high cheeks with a brownish, rough skin. They have large sharp eyes with large mouth and teeth. Duwendes vary in sizes, some barely bigger than a human hand. Those who belong to the upper class wear colorful clothes.
3 Kurakpao A very untidy and dirty creature with thick, disheveled hair and big, piercing eyes. An angry creature, it carries a piece of wood shaped like a thick bat and it is ready to batter the head of anyone it meets.
4 Ayutang A bat-like monster. Was killed by a mortal blow to the armpit by the hero Dumalapdap.  In its custody was a mountain ridge, which sank after its death and became the islands of Panay and Negros.
5 Kudo-kudo A tiny, round/egg shaped creature with small eyes. It has small, needle like limbs. Its body is brown and jar-like. Can harm people when it is hurt. It causes one to shiver with high fever and this is sometimes mistaken for malaria.
6 Macaugis A centaur with a head of a monkey and can fly (Without wings). Macaugis loves to abduct children with lice. It brings these kids to Mt. Miyakarang.
7 Aniani A Kapre (Large black male creatures that smoke cigars in their tree-homes) like creature, it is much bigger than a Kapre, being 18 feet tall. Due to its huge frame, the Ani ani is slow but is strong and can carry heavy items. It can change its form into a pig, a cow and even a large cat. He has a strong goat smell and blocks travelers at night.
8 Binangunan Vampirish beings that could suck the blood of children even from a distance. Thin, anemic children were thought to be victimized by a binangunan.
9 Magindara Bikolano myths paint the Magindara in extremes; they are either said to be guardian deities of Bikolano fishermen, or “aswang ng dagat” who will eat adult humans but do not harm children (a sharp difference from Tagalog sirena myths that show children as their preferred sacrifices). They are briefly mentioned in the Ibalon.
10 Pating na Pakpakan Flying sharks. 
11 Dawiliyan A benevolent spirit of the rice harvesting who helps the reapers. The Isneg / Apayao ask for its aid. 
12 Magtitima Invisible spirits that inhabit trees, especially large old ones like the balete. A magtitima can appear as a white snake among the branches of the tree it inhabits. Requires sacrifice of white fowls or brings sickness and does not allow people to cut wood.
13 Sumarang Man-like giant. Eyes are as big as plates, nose as wide as two wheels. Tried to get the hand of Doña Ines Cannoyan in marriage. Fought the hero Lam-ang, but was thrown away across nine hills.
14 The Kamandag Tree Any living thing under the shade of this tree will die. Once a year the tree blooms flowers that has a scent that brings malady as well as the magkupo (Marcupo/Markupo) – a serpent with a fin and a roosters crown.
15 L’mbong A beast that carries the seven layered world on its back. Has a giant parastic crab or shrimp attached to it. Some say it is a snake, cow or even lobster-like. It is kept company by a crab, if the crab/ shrimp pinches L’mbong, it causes earthquakes.
16 Daligmata An animal that is completely covered with eyes. Can only be seen at night. Helps in the gudguden ritual which helps those who are sick or whose souls have been stolen. Sometimes steals the souls of dreaming people, it does this through singing.
17 The Buso of Blood A buso (Ogre-like creatures) with only one eye, on the forehead. Described as the worst buso of all. Extremely bloodthirsty, only wants to kill. One Malaki (a semi-divine being, like a demigod) became this kind of buso after shedding the blood of many.
18 Ebwa Once mingled with the people in human form. Due to the thoughtless act of a mourner at a funeral, he became so addicted to the taste of human flesh, that it has since then been necessary to protect the corpse from him. He fears iron, and hence a piece of that metal is always laid on the grave. Holes are burned in each garment placed on the body to keep him from stealing them.
19 Mambubuno Creatures that look like merpeople  but have two tails. They have large slimy black scales and live in caves near bodies of water. They can be seen when the moon is bright. The upper part of its body is said to be that of a human woman. 
20 Binangenang A horse like creature it has fire on its back from head to tail. Brings danger, sickness and death as punishment. It lives near Mt. Pinatubo. 
21 Ikugan  Simian creatures, they are giants whose skin is covered with long, soft hair. Huge hands and feet, possess a tail that they use to fight. They hang by their tails in their trees and wait for unsuspecting victims to overpower.
22 Kimat A lightning spirit that appears as a big white dog and servant of the great spirits. At times the god Kadaklan enters the body of a favored medium, and talks directly with the people; but more frequently he takes other means of communication. Oftentimes he sends his dog Kīmat, the lightning, to bite a tree or strike a field or house, and in this way makes known his wish that the owner celebrate the Padīam ceremony
23  Palasekan An invisible tree spirit. They cannot be fooled. Palasekan have the power of  prognostication (Can tell future events). Each Illongot has their own personal palasekan.
24 Amihan The bird that pecked at the bamboo that released the first humans, Malakas and Maganda. Was one of the first beings to exist alongside Bathala and Amansinaya.
25 Amaeanhig Walking dead, described as ‘basically zombies’. A person can turn into one after death if they were not baptized or no family members claim their dead body.
26 Tambanakano Tambanokano is seen as a gigantic male crab. Every time he opens or closes his eyes, there is a flash of lightning. A child of the sun and the moon. He is aggressive and picks fights like his father, the sun. He sometimes becomes so angry with his mother (the moon) that he tries to swallow her. People beat on gongs to frighten the crab away from the moon. If he remains in his hole, it is high tide, but when he goes out the water rushes in and it is low tide.  His moving about causes waves on the surface of the sea. 
27 Mameleu A sea serpent, its body as large as a carabao and thirty fathoms long. It has two torch like eyes that gleam like fire. Its head as large as a carabao’s with two white horns and long tusks and teeth. It has plate sized scales that are hard and resistant. It ejects green spittle when hungry .
28 Balbalan The balbalan is a person, male or female, wherein their soul separates from their body to terrorize other people. They have long hair. There is a saying that when your hair is long and not covered in a sulban or hijab and basically buhag hag hair, you look like a balbalan
29 Pugot Mamu They are bogeymen who eat children with the hole in their neck, different from Pugot which are headless ghosts.
30 The Ghost Ship of Lolo Amang The Romblon Triangle is bounded by the Sibale Island, Tablas Straight, and Sibuyan Sea – creating a triangular shape. Numerous ships sunk or vanished in this area, including the Doña Paz with 4,000 passengers onboard due to different reasons. It’s rumored to be haunted by a “ghost ship” owned by a person named “Lolo Amang” which shows itself to ships that are about to meet its doom, but coastguards say accidents are just due to the riptides.
31 Bakunawa  The bakunawa is known across the Philippines as a serpent that swallows the moon, causing lunar eclipses. In Karay-a belief (An ethnolinguistic group from Panay island), the bakunawa can refer to two different types of flying serpent. One which has a transparent stomach and one that has a thick walled stomach. If one with a thin walled stomach swallows the moon then it causes a partial eclipse and if one with a thick walled stomach does so then it causes a total eclipse.