Page "Malacañan Palace" Paragraph 106

Featured in Malacañang legends is the large balete at the main entrance and its reputed resident capre.

Usually lit with capiz globes, it is hung with multicolored star lanterns at Christmas.

Just once, it was lit with thousands of flickering fireflies, captured in some distant town where fireflies still abounded and released as a grand ephemeral gesture of a present for the then First Lady.