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I would rush home to watch it, singalong with the Japanese intro and end songs - still burned in my mind is the "manananggal" episode, where Little John's Frigate was damaged and Voltes V had to fight as a flying torso.
bad boys II: everybody wants to rule the world Dean Francis Alfar 2005
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Here's a quote: It's easy to stick a vampire or a serial killer or in our case, a kapre or a manananggal – both of which I'm guilty of doing in the middle of a story and call it horror.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Our folklores have a lot of grim creatures such as the tikbalang (man with a horsehead), kapre (a tobacco-smoking giant perched on a tree), manananggal (a vampire woman whose upper half can detach from her lower body and fly), and the like.
Kaza Kingsley Blog Tour Tarie 2008
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Here's a quote: It's easy to stick a vampire or a serial killer or in our case, a kapre or a manananggal – both of which I'm guilty of doing in the middle of a story and call it horror.
Gloss Girl Is Scary 2008
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Monday, April 25, 2005 manananggal half-asleep I watch you leave my eyes half-open half-broken goodbyes half-spoken pneumatic half-closed rheumatic releasing a hiss of air
manananggal Dean Francis Alfar 2005
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Here we have a Filipino setting and we can't accept a manananggal speaking Spanish?
notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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Here we have a Filipino setting and we can't accept a manananggal speaking Spanish?
Archive 2003-03-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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He said, what you'll have a Spanish-speaking manananggal, then he laughed thinking that it was absurd.
Archive 2003-03-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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He said, what you'll have a Spanish-speaking manananggal, then he laughed thinking that it was absurd.
notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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If that threat didn't work, she'd tell us that the manananggal ..
Blogkadahan Tanya 2010
mollusque commented on the word manananggal
In the Philippines, a female vampire that separates the upper half of her body from the lower in order to fly in search of victims.
July 13, 2008
reesetee commented on the word manananggal
That sounds quite convenient.
July 21, 2008