 So I've been informed that the Nuno is, in fact, not the guitarist of 90s ballad sensation Xtreme, but the Nuno Sapunso, a sort of goblin-like creature of Filipino folklore. The Nuno can be mischievous and dangerous across, but it can also bring great good if respected. It is connected with ancestors of a place, and in many ways it reminds me of the Norwegian goblin called Nissa, from the headwear and the beard and the small stature to the links to places and ancestors and curses and blessings. The only thing separating the Nissa from the Nuno seems to be that Nuno's live in anthills. Now the similarity is likely to be an accident and commonality in human culture, but deep down in me there's an inkling of a feeling that this may just be one of the thousand elements of folklore across the world that show how connected humankind truly is, and that these stories are even in my skeptic nationalist mind more than words indeed.