#engkantober

For #FilAmHistoryMonth and #Inktober I thought I’d learn about Philippine mythology using the #Engkantober prompts @malamaya.Noel put together a few years back! Second is the Batibat 🛌 Beware the Batibat, otherwise known as Bangungot, a literal Nightmare. A heavy spirit that lives in fallen trees that will sit on you as you sleep until you suffocate. Wiggle your toes to wake up, or you may be scared to death with a post-mortem diagnosis of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome.

Otherwise known in English as a Dwarf, Goblin, or Gnome. The little guys who are generally helpful and connected to the earth. This Duwende I based off a garden gnome... if it wore a chickenjoy salakot! I'd gone to Jollibee that day and had an epiphany about the critter who protects the chickenjoy and who eats all the peach mango pies before the customers get there!

For #FilAmHistoryMonth and #Inktober I thought I’d learn about Philippine mythology using the #Engkantober prompts @malamaya.Noel put together a few years back! Third is a Kapre - the source of my username 🥭 This dude (affectionate) is like if bigfoot was a massive stoner, but instead of being weary of embers dropping from his towering toking each puff produces fireflies! If you find a Kapre in a Kawayan (bamboo), Mangga (mango), Akasya (acacia), or Balete (banyan) grove beware, they’ll get you lost in the grove and only let you return once you steal the tiny pearl they carry.

Apoy ni Santelmo, the eerie light that has captured many an imagination and led many more astray. It has many other names, this one heavily hispanicized, but the phenomena is scientifically known as Ball Lightning. 

I'm up in the air between doing a salamander drawing every day because I've unlocked my childhood special interest or doing just a smaller engkantober. Time to check out my supplies and some current prompt lists, I guess.