BalbalThe Balbal is a creature that abducts corpses and replaces them in the coffin with banana trunks.
It is a creature that has pointed teeth and glides through the air. It has a long tongue used to pull out the corpse and hooked nails that they use to tear open the house’s ceiling. As the Balbal glides in the air, it drops on the roof where a dead body is being mourned. If there is n one around, it would drop its tongue to wrap around the body and pull it upward. Balbals switches the bodies with banana tree trunk when coffins used don’t have mirrors so that the coffin would still have the same heaviness as it was when a dead body was inside of it. Noises are used to drive Balbals away. |
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Origin: Hiligaynon Creature Type: Ghoul Habitat: Forest Etymology: N/A |