THE ART OF CARLOS 'BOTONG' FRANCISCO # 3 of 3: THE NATIVE LAND'S MYTHOLOGICAL MONSTERS

Another set of wonderful drawings and illustrations from National Artist Carlos 'Botong' Francisco. Titled, The Native Land's Mythological Monsters, the great artist from Angono captured the world of native mythology rendering his own interpretation of the manananggals, aswang, tikbalang, nuno sa punso, among others.

Here's the last of the three-part series---

"Nuno sa Punso"

"Anting-Anting"


"Manananggal at Aswang"

"Mangkukulam"

"Kapre"

"Tikbalang"

"Tikbalang"

"Ang Mutya ng Saging"

Scanned from the originals
(Private Collection)

This Week Magazine/ 1955

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