The Kinoly use these long nails to disembowel the living. The Kinoly look like real people with some inhuman characteristics like red eyes and razor sharp fingernails that are long and dagger-like. The Malagasy in order to prevent an ancestor from becoming kinoly performs a ritual called ‘famadihana’. They haunt only their own graves, and they cause pestilence and misfortune on those who have wronged them. These angry ghosts are quite different to their western counterparts. As the Malagasy folklore goes ancestors who were not well tended and forgotten turn into angry ghosts. One kind of Malagasy ghost is the Kinoly, a ghoulish version of the ancestor ghosts who preys upon the living. Around 2000’s the Lich was again brought out of obscurity by two more games ‘World of Warcraft’ and ‘Arthas, the Lich-King’. The lich became a staple of gaming throughout the 70′s and 80′s, with Vecna, the lich-lord of Greyhawk (from ’Dungeons & Dragons’) ranking among the most popular. In Roman Catholicism and the Church of England, the word ‘lichgate’ refers to the covered area of entrance to the cemetery where the casket awaits for the clergyman before proceeding into the cemetery for burial. They are often depicted as holding power over other obtrusive undead folklore creatures, using them as soldiers and servants. Lichs are said to be either cadaverous with desiccated body or completely skeletal. Lichs are often mistaken as Zombies, but unlike Zombies they don’t feed on humans and has fully functioning minds. So long as the phylactery remains intact, the lich cannot be killed. More specifically, the wizard can save his soul inside a physical object, which is known as a ‘phylactery’. Surprisingly, non-game related popularity of Lichs over the internet is very limited.Ī lich is supposed to be the body of a dead sorcerer who through a ritual called ‘Ritual of Endless Night’ lives on, after his mortal body has perished. It rose to prominence when the role-playing game ’Dungeons & Dragons’ used the Lich as an undead character. Though it’s relatively a new comer in the ghost encyclopedia, it’s never-the-less very popular. So what makes a lich different from any other member of the undead? Well first, technically speaking a lich is not a ghost, but rather a physical entity. Lich is a very rare fantasy mythological creature meaning ‘corpse’. In the old days Filipino people stayed awake all night by singing and shouting to keep the Bal Bal from taking the dead body of their loved ones. It is even alleged of having a unique power of hypnotizing people to sleep in a funeral so that it can peacefully eat its meal.
They can fly and sail down onto the house where someone has died, tearing up thatched roof with those nails, use their tongue to lift up or rather ‘lick up’ the corpse.īal-Bal is also associated to other folklore creatures like Aswang, Amalanhig, and even to Busaw, since they are all corpse eaters. That is has a long reptilian tongue and monster nails. The Tigbabau tribe of Philippines believes that the Bal Bal can take human shape. Apparently it has sharper nose than that of a dog that can smell a corpse from a great distance and has a very foul breath.Īs the legend goes the Bal Bal appears like a night bird with a distinct cry which is audible every night. This monster is not just gross, it’s very sneaky, for after eating the dead body it places a banana trunk into the coffin to make it seem heavy with a corpse. It stealthily enters into graveyards and even funerals to steal corpses and feed on them.
Bal Bal is a Filipino monster and eater of the dead.
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