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The Lason Batch refers to a September 5, 1987 mass poisoning attack against Philippine Constabulary forces on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines which caused the deaths of almost an entire platoon of soldiers and hospitalization of well over a hundred troops.
Lamashtu appears as a character in the NBC television series Constantine in the episode "The Saint of Last Resorts". Lamashtu is the title of a 2015 audiobook by Paul E Cooley. Lamashtu appears as the antagonist in the 2017 film Still/Born. The song "lamashtu" by Necrophobic on their 2018 album Mark of the Necrogram is named for Lamashtu.
A host of mythological creatures occur in the mythologies from the Philippines. Philippine mythological creatures are the mythological beasts, monsters, and enchanted beings of more than 140 ethnic groups in the Philippines. Each ethnic people has their own unique set of belief systems, which includes the belief in various mythological creatures.
The hound was passed down to King Minos, who gave it as a reward to the Athenian princess Procris. She obtained it by sleeping with him, after drugging him with a drink from the Circean root, which came from a plant of the milkweed family. [3] In another version of her story, she received the animal as a gift from the goddess Artemis.
The Sinasa massacre was a mass poisoning and stabbing carried out by religious leader Mangayanon Butaog on September 9, 1985 () in Sinasa, a village in Davao City, Philippines. A total of 68 people died including Butaog; 64 from eating poisoned gruel , and four from stab wounds.
Loaita Island also known as Kota Island (Filipino: Pulo ng Kota; Mandarin Chinese: 南鑰島/南钥岛; pinyin: Nányào Dǎo, and Vietnamese: Đảo Loại Ta), with an area of 6.45 hectares (15.9 acres) -- is the tenth largest of the naturally-occurring Spratly Islands, and the fifth largest of the Philippine-occupied islands. [2]
Bugsuk is an island barangay in the Balabac municipality of Palawan province in the Philippines. Its area is 119 square kilometres (46 sq mi). Its area is 119 square kilometres (46 sq mi). History
The poison it contains works by stopping the heart, like most other arrow poisons. [5] Species [1] Acokanthera laevigata Kupicha - Tanzania, Malawi; Acokanthera oblongifolia (Hochst.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. - Mozambique, South Africa; Acokanthera oppositifolia (Lam.) Codd - widespread from Cape Province north to Zaire and Tanzania