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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Here we have a Filipino setting and we can't accept a manananggal speaking Spanish?

    notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • Here we have a Filipino setting and we can't accept a manananggal speaking Spanish?

    Archive 2003-03-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • 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

  • 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

  • If that threat didn't work, she'd tell us that the manananggal ..

    Blogkadahan Tanya 2010

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  • 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

  • That sounds quite convenient.

    July 21, 2008