The Duchess (finished), after Francisco Goya y Lucientes’ painting: http://eeweems.com/goya/duchess_white.html
Watercolor painting edited in GIMP.
Another rare find at the bookstore. A republished original novelization of the 1933 King Kong movie. This was novelized by Delos Lovelace back in 1933.
The lady in white.
The lady in white has become a part of Philippine folklore since who knows when.
In Philippine folklore and urban legends (including ghost stories), the lady in white, popularly known as the White Lady, is a wandering restless spirit of a female who died a tragic death or with an unfinished business (such as taking vengeance, etc.)
In other stories, lady in white is an elemental entity.
The most famous lady in white in Philippine urban legends is The White Lady of Balete Drive. Others include the diwata (fairy) Maria Makiling, Mariang Sikukua-an (also a diwata), and the White Lady of Loakan Road (a ghost) in Baguio.
The Mandurugo (means, “one who takes blood”) is a vampiric variety of the Aswang in Tagalog folklore that appears as a normal girl or woman by day but could turn into a winged nightmare at night. The most notable feature of a Mandurugo is the way it preys upon its victims. In the olden days, a young Mandurugo would marry a normal human, but the husband would slowly wither and die in a year. That’s because every night, the Mandurugo sucks the sleeping husband’s blood through the neck using its hollow and pointed tongue.
But as time went by, most Mandurugos have learned to spare the life of their partners and instead, victimize other people especially young men who are attracted to them. Most Mandurugos are beautiful and irresistible.
The Mandurugo is included in J. Gordon Melton’s The Vampire Book.
Note: This is a watercolor illustration.
