The penanggal: a Malay vampire, or, The Tribulations of Rendering a Half-Bodied Creature

On and off for the past few months, I've been trying to make a digital verson of the penanggal, a Malay vampire with a distinctively monstrous appearance.

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The farting goat gyroscope ride and other curiosities

Phoenixmasonry, a Web site for and about U.S. Freemasons, contains scans of a fascinating catalog, DeMoulin Bros. Fraternal Supply Catalog No. 439. Published in 1930, this pamphlet contains elaborate, expensive gag devices designed to trick and entertain people at Masonic gatherings. 

Many of the pages feature items containing goats, such as the Ferris Wheel Coaster Goat, which combines a blindfolded rider, a toy goat, bleating sound effects and a starter's pistol, all in some gyroscope-like device, for maximum disorientation sadism larfs results. 

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Rather cute manananggal, Cory

Well, I ordered some guts and bloody stumps for my manananggal, but they didn't come, so I worked on the rest of her, that is, her top half. You can see Cory [short for Corazon] below. I am not sure what her style is, but, whatever it is, she is rockin' it hard. She is a lot of fun to make. I put her in the therianthropes category because she has bat wings and an insectile tongue, so I think of her as therianthropic. I added the "devil horns" because they seemed to go along with the bat wings...and her tough demeanor. I don't know if you can see this, but she has three eyebrow piercings, one nose ring and rings at either corner of her mouth!

( Cory takes no shit. )