About The Province of Capiz

Capiz is now known to be the seafood capital of the Philippines and slowly, the scary folklore about Capiz is turning to dust.

An Aswang (or Asuwang) is a mythical creature in Filipino folklore. The aswang is an inherently evil vampire-like creature and is the subject of a wide variety of myths and stories, the details of which often vary greatly. Spanish colonizers noted that the Aswang was the most feared among the mythical creatures of the Philippines, even in the 16th century.

A type of aswang, the Kikik/Tik-Tik, turns into a enormous, prowling bat or bird at night, looking for pregnant women. As it sucks the blood from the fetus with its long proboscis, it makes a 'kik-kik-kik' sound. Other stories relate the kikik as an aswang's familiar, its sound masking the aswang's proximity from would-be victims.

The term wak-wak or wuk-wuk is frequently used for the same creature in the Cebu region. The legends of the wak-wak and kikik are much the same, but the wak-wak is specifically supposed to change into its birdlike form by leaving behind its lower body, much like the manananggal. The cry of a night bird which makes a "wuk-wuk-wuk" sound is believed to be the call of this monster and is feared by superstitious villagers. As with the call of the kikik, the wak-wak is believed able to make its cry sound distant when the creature is near.

The sigbin or zegben has been known as another type of aswang, and alternately, as the kikik's familiar. One of the most popular legends in the Visayas region is the infamous aswang Tniente Gimo or Lieutenant Gimo from Dueñas, Ilo-ilo. In addition, The most commonly known in terms is something called Tyanak/ Tianak happens to be as the unborn baby's due abortion.

All of this was not true.Its all folk, but because of this Capiz become more popular because they have now Aswang Festival, another way to promote their province.

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Here are some of the Philippines interesting and funny facts.

How big is the Philippines? The Philippine Islands is a small country in comparison to the United States. In fact, if you compare the Philippines with the state of Texas, Texas is about two times larger versus the Philippines.

One of the World Heritage properties in the Philippines includes the two thousand years old Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras.

There are more than 10 million Filipinos who live overseas, of this, about 8 million are OFWs or Overseas Filipino Workers. According to the Central Bank of the Philippines, overseas Filipinos remitted an estimated US$ 14.4 billion to the Philippines in 2007. Yearly, this figure goes up. (I hope this stays as is even though we are being hit by the world financial crisis!)

The karaoke is a Filipino invention and not a Japanese one. Karaoke meaning "singing without accompaniment" in Japanese was invented by Roberto del Rosario. He called his invention "Sing-Along-System", which was later called karaoke.

The Philippines is considered the "text capital of the world". Of the estimated 35 million cell phone subscribers in the Philippines in 2006, about 350 to 400 million SMS (Short Message Service) or text messages are sent daily. This figure is more than the total daily text messages sent in the U.S. and Europe combined. Soon enough, we would be the mobile-blogging capital of the world!!!

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Some Facts About The Philippines

Here are some of the Philippines Facts:

Do you know the Following?

1.Cebu is the first Philippine City.

2. Maria Teresa Calderon - World champion speed reader that being listed in the Guiness Book of World Records.

3. Coconuts - the Philippines is considered to be the largest producer of coconuts and our farmers discovered lambanog through coconut.

4. Gemma Cruz was the first Filipina to win an international beauty title - Miss International in the year 1964.

5. Dan Inosanto - from Mike Robandido - Pinoy who taught Bruce Lee how to use arnis de mano.

6. The second oldest philippine printing press next to Manila can be found in Pila Laguna. The first book printed was named Vocabulario Delengua Tagala - the Philippines first Filipino - Spanish dictionary which was printed in 1613, 25 years older than the first book printed in the United States.

7. Philippine Airlines took to the skies on March 15, 1941, using a Beech Model 18 aircraft amid the specter of a global war. It became Asia's first airline.

8. The Philippines is home to some of the world's most exotic birds. One of the most endangered species is the exotic Kalangay or the Philippine cockatoo (Cacatua haematuropygia), which belongs to Psittacidae or the family of parrots. Some cockatoos can live up to 50 years. They are known for mimicking human voices. Most of them measure 33 centimeters in length and weigh 0.29 kilogram.

9. The world's second deepest spot underwater is in the Philippines. This spot, about 34,440 feet (10,497 meters) below the sea level, is known as the Philippine Deep or the Mindanao Trench. The Philippine Deep is in the floor of the Philippine Sea. The German ship Emden first plumbed the trench in 1927. The world's deepest part of the ocean is the Marianas Trench, which is over 11,000 meters below the seal level.

10. The symbolic name for the Philippines, Juan dela Cruz, is not a Filipino invention? It was coined by R. McCulloch-Dick, a Scottish-born journalist working for the Manila Times in the early 1900s, after discovering it was the most common name in blotters

Those are the few of the many facts that inhibit the Philippines.

New Trivia About Philippines

Do you know that the country Philippines is also mentioned in the Bibble. I know you will wonder why I say Philippines is also mentioned in the bibble.We can be easily understood that there is no verse in the Bible carried the term Philippines,with the reason of the Bible was written two thousand years ago or centuries and it was before the Spaniards came here.

However, there are verses in the Bible that has this prophesy about the Philippine archipelagoas well as the other islands in the Pacific.

You will find it in Book of Isaiah chapter 24 , erses 15 to 16 read.

And it say like this:

"Therefore in the east give glory to the Lord; exalt the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea. From the ends of the earth we hear singing: 'Glory to the Righteous One.'" The Philippines is the only Christian archipelago in the Pacific covering East Asia.