Philippine vampire (aswang)

There are a number of stories about the Aswang traffic between rural areas in the Philippines, which makes it impossible to establish a firm set their appearance or activities. However, a trade mark or the characteristics of Aswangs, the other Filipino mythological creatures is their tendency to replace live or victims of theft of co rpses with a facsimile it is created, on tree trunks and other plants. Aswangs are particularly fear for their tendency to eat the fetus in the womb and children. My favorite parts of the body, liver and heart.

Some reportedly said Aswangs are in a position to an intrusion into the body of a person and that person through their imposition of damage to persons they do not like. Most of the time they are of women and appear as an old ugly woman with long unkempt hair, blood-shot eyes, long fingernails, and a long black tongue. It has holes in the armpits, on oil. This gives him the power, vol.

Too much energy, a Aswang can, in any form, including the inanimate objects. It feeds on children, pregnant women and sick. Once a Aswang has prepared a victim, a package of sticks, grass and rice talahib or bars, bananas, and its transformation into a replica of his victim. The reproduction is returned to him, while the Aswang is the real person is far from being killed and eaten. The response person who has reached his residence, sick and die.

In many stories, Aswang a normal life as a townsperson per day, and draw up employment in connection with meat, such as butcher or sausage. Some reportedly Aswangs without age have an aspect and a quiet, shy and faßbar. They can be distinguished by the two human characters. The first is the sight of blood are sprayed throughout the night to search for ways to pre-taste in the houses, where the trail of Bestattungs services are in progress, the flight and the corpses.

Among his many talents, the Aswang is the man for animals and from animals to humans. The Aswang, even as a pig, dog, dogs, snakes, bats, birds or black. Explain, if a person in the eyes, the reflections apparently vice versa. During their nocturnal activities, they go with their feet to the rear and vice versa toes.

One type is the kikik Aswang, which is in a very large bird / bat in the night and rôde. The kikik looking for a pregnant woman sleeping bag. If it has found there is a very long proboscis in the womb and kills the fetus in his blood draining. It is said that if this happens, a legacy of the Royal Institute Institute royal du Patrimoine kik "is often heard.

In some stories, kikik is a confidante of the Aswang, said to confuse people by its kikik '. If the Aswang is that it is low enough so that the people negotiating, he might think that the Aswang is still a long way.

The term wak wak or wuk-wuk is often used to the same creature in the area of Cebu. The legends of the wak wak and kikik are roughly the same, but the wak wak-is exactly means in its birdlike form lags behind its lower part of the body, as well as the Manananggal, another vampire Philippines. The cry of a bird of the night, in reality a "wuk-wuk-wuk" will get the call this monster is feared by the superstitious villagers. As the call to the kikik, wak wak-will be able to make their cry if the sound level far creature.

In Panitan (Panit'an) Capiz, it is a myth of Dangga or Agitot. This type of Aswang is said, the form of a beautiful gay men that the women during the night of hunting and drinks blood like a vampire.

Another familiar sigbin or Zegben. Some say it's a different form in, Aswang but some say this is the companion of kikik. His appearance is said to be similar to the Chupacabra devil of Tasmania and in appearance, but with unequal fur. He allegedly has a big mouth with big teeth.

One of the legends, the most popular in the region of the Visayas is the infamous Aswang Tiniente Gimo (Gimo Lieutenant) of the city Dueñas, Iloilo.