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Daphne Fama
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Actively plotting my own downfall. Buy my spooky book about filipino folklore, cannibalism, and toppling a dictatorship.

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207767929-house-of-monstrous-women
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HMW made the @vulture.com list, and my heart is doing tiny bat flips. Appreciate the love! 🖤
October 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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September 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Things have never felt more fucked. When the world tries to silence you, keep shouting.

UNITE. PROTEST. FIGHT. And don’t forget: VOTE VOTE VOTE.
September 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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House of Monstrous Women releases today.

It's a story of oppression, liberation, sacrifice, and hope that refuses to be extinguished.

I am beyond lucky to have written this story and even luckier to share it with all of you. From the bottom of my heart:

Thank you.
August 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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August 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Day 3 of Filipino folklore in the run-up to House of Monstrous Women's release! Today, we have anting! Charms that can protect you from bullets to curses.
Day 3 of Filipino folklore. Anting Anting-anting have a long history in the Philippines. These items, which may be amulets, clothing, or charms, are said to hold miraculous power. Some of the most common abilities: - An immunity to bullets, blades, or physical harm - Protection against curses - Exorcism of spirits - Increased attraction from the opposite gender - The ability to curse others The symbols of an anting-anting are a hodgepodge of precolonial animism, Catholic mysticism, and local symbols a nd phrases. Some of the more common symbols you'll see are the all-seeing eye, suns and stars, and the Sator Square, angelic seals, and invented script. But once you have a charm, you must keep it fed. This might require living a virtuous life, reciting secret prayers, or anointing it with blood or holy water.
August 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Day 2 of Filipino folklore in celebration of House of Monstrous Women coming out in 6 days! I love making these. Today's feature is the monstrous aswang, which has haunted the Philippines for centuries...
Day 2 of Filipino Folklore Aswang Aswang is an umbrella term that refers to a myriad of monsters, from vampire-like creatures to shapeshifting witches. Nearly all types of aswang have an insatiable desire for human blood, viscera, corpses, or unborn babies. Beautiful women, old widowed women, and women who practice healing have frequently been accused of being aswang. Particularly when Spanish colonizers began spreading Catholicism. The most common forms for a shapeshifting aswang to take is a black dog or pig. It's at night that aswangs typically chase their hunger, seeking out blood and gore. Aswang have a variety of abilities. Common ones are flight, a heightened sense for pregnancy or blood, moving without a sound and leaving no shadow, mimicking voices (including babies crying), and paralyzing their victims. Make no mistake, being an aswang is a curse. And there are a number of ways you can become one. In the Visayas, the aswang curse is passed through bloodlines. Usually from mother to daughter. The curse can also be transferred on a dying aswang's deathbed. They must spit out a black object, which can be a stone or egg, into the chosen successor's mouth. This item carries the curse. It may be warm and alive. But you can also choose to become an aswang by conducting a ritual and eating human flesh. Love Filipino folklore? Grab House of Monstrous Women on August 12
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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House of Monstrous Women releases in 7 days!! To celebrate, I'll be posting some of my favorite folklore in the Philippines. Today's feature is paktol, a black sorcery used to kill its target. (1/4)
An image of a skull and catholic relic. Day 1 of Filipino Folklore. Paktol. Paktol, which means "to knock on someone's head" in Cebuano, is a type of skull sorcery. The skull must come from an unbaptized person (ideally a child), because they haven't seen god and rest in limbo. Oftentimes the skull is stolen from graves or inherited from an elder sorcerer. It's the spirit connected to the unbaptized skull that is called upon to harm or kill its target. Branches of specific tree, like the Malaysian persimmon and Philippine hackberry, are put in a triangle formation around the skull. Seven branches on each side. Three wooden wedges and the victim's name written on paper are tied to the skull with black cloth. Offerings to the spirits are placed nearby. Usually incense, liquor, and food. Once the skull is prepared, the ritual can begin. The ideal time is on Friday at 12 noon or at 8 PM, when night is about to fall. The sorcerer will then call out the name bound to the skull or some other dark entity and begins the invocation. "You are no longer among the living. You are of the dead. I command you, go to the person whose name is written here and kill them." The sorcerer then strikes the wooden wedges beneath the cloth while commanding the spirit to kill. The victim will soon suffer headaches and escalating illness. If no counter-magic is used, they will die in a few weeks. Love Filipino folklore? Grab House of Monstrous Women on August 12.
August 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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my book is coming out in two weeks and I am nonstop vibrating with excitement and anxiety.
July 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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July 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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my baby's gonna be in a book club 🥹
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July 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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how it feels to watch maga disintegrate over the epstein files
July 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I thought this was an eye for too long 😭
July 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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July 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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ask me about filipino witchcraft and mass possession
or idk get my book for free
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July 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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July 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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me whenever I infiltrate a new friend group
June 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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every little bit helps!
June 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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