A '''manananggal''' in Filipino folklore or '''penanggalan''' in Malay folklore consists of a woman's torso that has wings attached. The woman spl
...severed torso: Manananggal comes from the Tagalog, ''tanggal'' (cognate of Malay and Indonesian ''tanggal'') which means to sever. Manananggal then means th
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...ary Beings''. Borges claimed that he had found the legend in the book ''On Malay Witchcraft'' (1937), by C.C. Iturvuru.
[[Category:Asian mythology]]
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...(4 feet 11 inches) are called pygmies. Pygmies can be found in Africa, the Malay Peninsula, the Andaman Islands, New Guinea, and the Philippines. Many of th
[[Category: Japanese mythology]]
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...ted person is, or has, transformed into an animal. It is named after the [[mythology|myth]]ical condition of lycanthropy, a [[supernatural]] affliction in which
...hropy has been sometimes associated with latah behaviour, described by the Malay people. However, modern latah is rarely associated with the sort of animal-
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...own as '''Kap Dwa''', which translates approximately as Two-Heads. (In the Malay language, kepala means head and dua means two; how this relates to the supp
[[Category:South American and Mesoamerican mythology]]
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...semi divine serpent creatures beings first depicted in ancient Vedic Hindu mythology and oral folklore from at least 5000 B.C.
Stories involving the Nagas are omnipresent in Hindu and Buddhist mythology and still very much a part of contemporary cultural traditions in predomina
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