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  • I liked the first line of the story “It is raining when he first sees her” – although perhaps unintentionally, the first paragraph left me with the mistaken impression that the POV character was a kapre, at least until the last line of said paragraph.

    June « 2009 « BAHAY TALINHAGA 2009

  • I liked the first line of the story “It is raining when he first sees her” – although perhaps unintentionally, the first paragraph left me with the mistaken impression that the POV character was a kapre, at least until the last line of said paragraph.

    Review: Philippine Speculative Fiction IV (3 of 4) « BAHAY TALINHAGA 2009

  • 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

  • *I mention this quote only because it thrills me that Sir Butch found Beneath The Acacia the story with the kapre and the tikbalang by Celestine Marie G. Trinidad "a great job".

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • The following are mentioned by Sir G. G.ierson: [557] '_Dhobi par Dhobi base, tab kapre par sabun pare_', or 'When many Dhobis compete, then some soap gets to the clothes,' and 'It is only the clothes of the Dhobi's father that never get torn.'

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

  • Manbhao hokar kale kapre darhi muchi mundhata hai,

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

  • More in Hindi lahat ng tao ay naniniwala sa mga maligno katulad ng kapre, duwende, laman-lupa, engkantada atbp.

    blog ni ella 2008

  • Hvorfor ser vi alliancer, der minder om flyselskabernes alliancer i kampen om at kapre kunder, blomstre op nu?

    _Politik 2008

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