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Kapres are said to dwell in big trees like acacias, mangoes, bamboo, and banyan (known in the Philippines as balete).It is also mostly seen sitting under those trees. The Kapre is said to wear the indigenous Northern Philippine loincloth known as bahag, and according to some, often wears a belt which gives the kapre the ability to be invisible to humans.
The revolutionaries, led by General Juan Araneta from Bago and General Aniceto Lacson from Talisay, bore fake arms consisting of rifles carved out of palm fronds and cannons of rolled bamboo mats painted black. By the afternoon of November 6, Col. de Castro signed the Act of Capitulation, thus ending centuries of Spanish colonial rule in Negros ...
Filipinos (Filipino: Mga Pilipino) [50] are citizens or people identified with the country of the Philippines.The majority of Filipinos today are Catholic [51] and come from various Austronesian peoples, all typically speaking Filipino, English, or other Philippine languages.
The Calamba Claypot, also known as the Calamba Jar and the Banga, is a landmark in Calamba, Laguna, Philippines, considered the largest claypot in the world. [1] It is located at the City Plaza near Calamba Church and Rizal Shrine.
Aeta (Ayta / ˈ aɪ t ə / EYE-tə), Agta and Dumagat, are collective terms for several indigenous peoples who live in various parts of Luzon islands in the Philippines.They are included in the wider Negrito grouping of the Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia, with whom they share superficial common physical characteristics such as: dark skin tones; short statures; frizzy to curly hair ...
Tamalanhig - elf-like Female beings with beautiful long black hair and reddish skin and pointy leaf shaped ears. They are the Female counterpart of the pale Mahomanay. Tiyanak: un-baptized newborn baby that tricks and preys on people that are usually lost in the woods. [46] Walo (Maranao) – an eight-headed hairy giant with a thousand eyes.
The Ibalon Monument which shows the four (4) heroes of the epic: Tambaloslos, Baltog, Handyong and Bantong in Legazpi City. The Ibálong, also known as Handiong or Handyong, is a 60-stanza fragment of a Bicolano full-length folk epic of the Bicol region of the Philippines, based on the Indian Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Ancient Filipinos and Filipinos who continue to adhere to the indigenous Philippine folk religions generally do not have so-called "temples" of worship under the context known to foreign cultures. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] However, they do have sacred shrines , which are also called as spirit houses . [ 2 ]