The 1973 Dyesebel film "Dyesebel at Ang Mahiwagang Kabibe" was directed by Emmanuel H. Borlaza, and was closer to Mars Ravelo's heroine mermaid. The character inhabits an undersea kingdom of mermaids, cast out from the land of humans due to the belief that mermaids are the cause of misfortune. Dyesebel became attracted to a male human being and swore to find any means to be transformed into a normal human, in order to be with the man that her heart desired.