Kumander alibasbas biography for kids

Here's a catalog of ghouls and goblins (laman labuad, "earth creatures," the opposite of heavenly spirits) that terrorized our Kapampangan ancestors:

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PATIANAK, small dark creatures that lived underground, in remote spots marked by termite mounds.

Passers-by had to say "Makilabas ku pu!" or "Itábi po, puera nunu!" (“May I pass?" or "Please go away, I hope there is no old dwarf here!”) The word patianak did not come from the Tagalog tiyanak, but from the Bahasa pontianak, the ghost of a stillborn baby.

Thus, Kapampangans thought them to be the souls of unbaptized children, who tormented women during childbirth and harassed immoral people (like unchaste priests and unfaithful husbands).

MANGKUKUTUD, the Kapampangan version of the manananggal, whose torso detached from the rest of the body to fly in the night in search of cadavers to eat.

This is the reason we never leave our dead unattended, or the mangkukutud would steal t