09/01/2023
The Urban Tales (Book One)
Episode Two
Panaklayan
It is another legend of the 90's where a group of students went missing after they cut classes to spend the day in the Lion River in Cavite, a "lion" which typically means of the deep part of the river. Those students remain missing until this day. But according to some neighbors some of them returned 20 years after the incident and tells a story on how they been missing, they said they hear a sounds of a "panaklayan" a thing where the farmer usually put their machete and they follow it, until they find themselves in a places where all people are tiny and with wings like a butterflies and dragonflies. And they said all they do is to play with them as kids, in the story they are all called "fairies" or "lambana" but they have different names and they have enemies.
One thing they've noticed with him is remain as a kid after missing for 20 years.