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<blockquote data-quote="kitoy" data-source="post: 2321881" data-attributes="member: 1819">I'm Filipino and this thing is taken directly from Filipino mythology.&nbsp; It gave me the willies when I first read about it as a kid in some of my grandfather's books and it gives me the willies now.&nbsp; We call it the mananangal and it preys on pregnant women and children by flying onto the roof of a hut, sticking it's long thread-like tongue through the thatched leaves of the roof or an open window, and sucking it's victims blood through the tongue. *shivers*&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid&nbsp; &nbsp; :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> When I went to the Philippines for my honeymoon, we stayed at a beautiful resort on the beach for three or four days.&nbsp; Our rooms were actually grass huts on the side of a mountain with a beautiful view of the ocean and the jungle behind us.&nbsp; The opening out to our patio was just a heavy curtain, no glass, no door and we slept under a mosquito net to keep out the bugs.&nbsp; The hut itself was elevated a few feet above the ground and you could see through the wooden slats of the floor to the ground below.So there I am at night, with my overactive imagination, listening to the sounds of the jungle, waiting for that red thread to come through the ceiling, or up through the floor, or from between the curtains.&nbsp; I did not get any sleep at night at all while I was there.&nbsp; The only time I fell asleep was when the light of dawn would peer through the curtain and my fevered imagination could rest.I learned two things on that vacation.&nbsp; My imagination is way too active and next time I'm in the jungle in the Philippines, I'm getting a room with doors and windows that lock . . . and air conditioning.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kitoy, post: 2321881, member: 1819"] I'm Filipino and this thing is taken directly from Filipino mythology. It gave me the willies when I first read about it as a kid in some of my grandfather's books and it gives me the willies now. We call it the mananangal and it preys on pregnant women and children by flying onto the roof of a hut, sticking it's long thread-like tongue through the thatched leaves of the roof or an open window, and sucking it's victims blood through the tongue. *shivers* :confused: :uhoh: When I went to the Philippines for my honeymoon, we stayed at a beautiful resort on the beach for three or four days. Our rooms were actually grass huts on the side of a mountain with a beautiful view of the ocean and the jungle behind us. The opening out to our patio was just a heavy curtain, no glass, no door and we slept under a mosquito net to keep out the bugs. The hut itself was elevated a few feet above the ground and you could see through the wooden slats of the floor to the ground below. So there I am at night, with my overactive imagination, listening to the sounds of the jungle, waiting for that red thread to come through the ceiling, or up through the floor, or from between the curtains. I did not get [B]any[/B] sleep at night at all while I was there. The only time I fell asleep was when the light of dawn would peer through the curtain and my fevered imagination could rest. I learned two things on that vacation. My imagination is way too active and next time I'm in the jungle in the Philippines, I'm getting a room with doors and windows that lock . . . and air conditioning. [/QUOTE]

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