BloodyLexicon.com » segben http://www.bloodylexicon.com Your Source for the Macabre Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:30:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Balbal http://www.bloodylexicon.com/monsters/balbal/ http://www.bloodylexicon.com/monsters/balbal/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:28:30 +0000 BloodyLexicon http://www.bloodylexicon.com/?p=820 The Balbal, from Filipino lore.The Balbal is from Filipino lore and is a ghoul that steals bodies and eats those that are ready to die. Because of this, they are said to have very bad breath. ]]> The Balbal, from Filipino lore.

The Balbal, from Filipino lore.
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Other Aliases: Bal-Bal, Busaw, Segben, Wirwir

The Balbal is from Filipino lore and is a ghoul that steals bodies and eats those that are ready to die. Because of this, they are said to have very bad breath. Since it feeds on bodies it is considered a type of vampire and is equipped with very sharp teeth and claws to tear the dead apart. It is also a trickster, once it takes the body out of the coffin it then replaces the coffin with a banana tree trunk so that people think the body is still in the coffin. It is one of the most feared vampires in the Philippines.

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