Mythical creatures in the philippines with pictures

THE CALL As a child, I was exposed to a myriad of cultures. My Cebuano father and Manileña mother accepted the offer of the Philippine government for resettlement in Mindanao in the late 1950s.

My father built a wooden house with galvanized iron roof in the middle of the once wilderness of tigbaw and forest turned into a farmland in the then remote sitio of Habulon, Nabaliwa, Pangantucan, Bukidnon.

Philippine mythology creatures

Our neighbors were settlers from Luzon and Visayas, the Manobos who were rumored to be headhunters, and the threatening Moros in the nearby barrio of Baborawon, Kalilangan, Bukidnon. There was a time when we were awakened by our neighbor telling us to evacuate to the Barangay Captain’s house because the Moros were going to attack that night.

Since my father was away working as a government employee in Musuan, Maramag, Bukidnon, my mother along with us six children, the eldest of whom was only twelve years old, fled to the safety of the