Anggitay

The anggitay is a creature with a woman's body down to the waist and a horse's body below. Some drawings give it a single horn on the forehead, like a unicorn. People who write about Philippine creatures call it the female counterpart of the tikbalang, the horse-headed trickster of the forest. It also looks like the centaur of Greek stories, but in female form.

Stories say it loves gems and jewelry. Some writers place its home in Santo Tomas, Batangas, but that claim has no strong source. Old Spanish records do not describe it, and no old tale is known. The anggitay may be a newer name for a figure that modern writers shaped from older horse stories and European ideas.

The few online sources about it cite creature lists and one modern book, not field studies. Who first told these stories, and how they differ from place to place, is unknown.