ManananggalSalt Before Sunrise
Tala, 16, is learning to be the barrio hilot. Her cousin is due at the full moon, something with wings has found her roof, and the barrio blames the quiet widow from Antique.
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Chapters
Chapter 1 · 16 pages
Tiktik
Tala's cousin is due at the full moon, and something with wings has found her roof.
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Chapter 2 · 16 pages
The Widow from Antique
The barrio turns on Celia, and a red thread turns up where no body lies.
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Chapter 3 · 16 pages
Salt and Ash
Tala hides Celia and learns why she fled Antique.
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Chapter 4 · 16 pages
The Longest Night
A storm, an early labor, and wings on the roof.
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Chapter 5 · 16 pages
Before Sunrise
Tala has until the sun comes up.
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About this retelling
From the Visayan tellings
The manananggal looks like an ordinary woman by day. At night her upper body breaks away at the waist, grows bat wings and flies. She hunts pregnant women with a long, thin tongue. The tiktik call. Salt, ash, vinegar, a stingray's tail and bolos in the floor as protection. Salt or ash on the lower half stops the two parts joining, and she dies at sunrise.
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Barrio Lunhaw and every character. Tala's training as a hilot, the widow the barrio blames, and the hiding place of the lower half.
The legendManananggalShe leaves her lower body behind and flies at night.Read the legend
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