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Updated: May 7, 2025
When the moon is full she is thought to be entirely naked. The writer found almost identical beliefs and practices among the Batak and Tagbanua of Palawan. According to this tale the stars had quite a different origin than that just related, "In the beginning of things there was only one great star, who was like a man in appearance.
After a term of years the Tagbanua dies again and goes at once to a heaven in a deeper cave without danger from fire. Seven times he dies, each time going deeper and becoming happier, and probably gains Nirvana in the end. Occasionally a good spirit returns as a dove, and a bad one comes as a goat; indeed, a few of the bad ones are doomed to wander over the earth forever.
While a Tagbanua corpse is above ground it is liable to be eaten by a vampire called the balbal that lives on Mindanao, has the form of a man with wings and great claws, tears open the thatch of houses and consumes bodies by means of a long tongue, which it thrusts through the opening in the roof.
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