Another self-segmenter related to the manananggal could be found in Kapampangan folklore. The Magkukutud had the appearance of your classic manananggal but this one was said to lay eggs. Yes, eggs! It laid eggs in a secluded area and just left them there. Those who found the eggs were shocked to find human body parts inside after *****ing them open. The magkukutud has a ghoulish habit. After finding a fresh corpse, it took the body to its home and cooked it. The creature’s name was derived from the Kapampangan word “kutod” which means “to cut”.
In the province of Aklan in Panay Island, Western Visayas the Tanggae looks similar to the manananggal but it has the ability to disguise its discarded lower half as an anthill to avoid getting caught off-guard while its other half was away hunting.
Not all winged self-segmenters possess leathery, bat-like wings and not all look hideous. One account relates that a female cow-herder was attacked by a winged creature with the head of a doll-faced young woman with hair the color of straw. Its wings were avian and created gusts of wind as they flapped in the air. The said creature could be related to the Boroka which is known for its beauty and bird-like wings. There are also first-hand accounts of encounters with self-segmenters akin to manananggals, which fly without wings, known as Anananggal in some parts of Visayas.
2. The non-self-segmenters
Those belonging to this subgroup never discard any of their body parts when looking for prey. They could easily sense if a person is terminally ill by just sniffing the air. When in their human form, most are usually disguised as vegetable, fish, or meat vendors or peddlers of other goods, plying their trade in different communities while on the lookout for *******t women to victimize. That is why in the olden days and even up to now, especially in the rural areas, peddlers who are total strangers in a village are held under suspicion by the locals because they might be up-to-no-good aswangs. They know if an expectant mother is ripe for picking by the scent of the fetus inside the womb, which to them emits a very sweet smell. The smell is so irresistible that some of them couldn’t help but make a remark about the *******cy or glance frequently at the bloated belly of the victim. It is said this smell is akin to that of ripe jack fruit locally known as langka. When they find a target victim, they remember the location of the house for a late night visit. Before flying off to the victim’s house a non-self-segmenter would anoint its whole body with specially-made oil or ointment and bend over while muttering an incantation or, if it is a moonlit night, chant to the moon with raised arms until the skin turns as black as pitch and as slippery as an eel. Their teeth grow longer, their fingernails turn into claws, and most grow leathery wings like those of bats. Some like the Ekek or Ek-Ek are said to grow beaks lined with sharp teeth. Their toes turn into sharp grasping talons while their arms extend into powerful bird-like wings. During flight the ekek make a shrill sound from which their name is derived. Most don’t attack the victim outright on the first few nights but only observe and savor the smell of the fetus. When they finally attack they usually land on the roof directly above the sleeping victim or cling outside the window should the victim be located in a room in the first floor. This is how the Visayan Wak-Wak attacks *******t women. The wak-wak is often confused with the manananggal but it is different from the latter. This creature looks very human but could grow bat wings with its arms and never leaves its lower half behind. In some circumstances a wak-wak chooses to walk or run than fly, especially when a victim’s house is considerably near its residence. Those who claim to have come face to face with a wak-wak said the creature sometimes walked backward on all fours with its body bent and the head tucked between the thighs. When not hunting for *******t women, it ambushes lone travelers at night, straddling their backs with its legs wrapped tightly round the victims’ waist while attempting to strangle them. It makes a successive sound similar to its name during the entire ordeal or when it is on its way to a victim’s location. To deceive or confuse the victim of its presence, it makes a loud sound when far away and softens it into a faint shriek as if it had left when in fact it’s already near the victim. The wak-wak and the ekek penetrate a victim’s womb using their thread-like proboscis. Like the two creatures, the Tiktik, an aswang from the Visayas region with large, leathery but avian-looking wings also feeds in similar manner but it does this inside the victim’s house. The tiktik sneaks into the sleeping victim’s house, crawls on the walls, and upon finding the victim, suspends itself inverted on top of her like a bat and extends its long tongue to pierce the womb. A tiktik also looks more human in terms of facial traits and body shape but generally hideous.
Another hideous-looking fetus-eater is the ghoulish Balbal of Tagbanua folklore. It is described as having long, curved nails, large ears, big bloodshot eyes, and emits a putrid stench from the corpses it devoured. One could tell its presence by its smell alone. When not searching for a corpse, a balbal glides in the night sky like a flying squirrel and clings outside the window of an intended victim. It would then use its tubular tongue to extract the delicious unborn child.
In Cuyo, Palawan the people feared the Mangalok, a flyer described as having the pretty face of a woman. During the day the creature sleeps on the tallest branches, its hair covering its face. After sunset the mangalok awakens and flies off in search of people to prey on. Young individuals and *******t women are its preferred victims. Upon finding a sleeping *******t woman, it will enter the house unseen, for it can render itself invisible, and feed on the yet to be born child in the womb using its long hollow tongue through the mother’s navel.
There are other unnamed fetus-sucking non-self-segmenters mentioned in many accounts. They are generally described as persons with coal-black skin and prowl outside the house or perch on the roof of a victim’s house. When caught in the act, they jump in the air and fly off without the aid of wings.
The walkers
No, not those hoard of walking reanimated corpses in The Walking Dead series. The walkers here refer to a group sub-group of fetus-eaters that are unable to fly and belong to the Aswang na Lakad (walking aswang) group. Most appear as normal humans and live very normal lives often mingling with the human populace, making it difficult to tell if they really are aswangs. In the olden days persons with hunched or forward slumping postures were suspected as aswang na lakad because of this kind of aswangs’ habit of prowling under the elevated houses especially in rural areas. But with advances in science, this supposed identifier became unreliable, for people with such conditions were not really creatures of the night but were persons who had bone deficiencies.
Unlike their self-segmenting and lupad cousins, not all walkers have proboscis-like tongues. Some have even transcended the need for physical contact in feeding on their victims. One example is the method employed by the ordinary-looking Kantanod. When it catches the scent of a *******t woman, it follows the victim to her home where it will either sit hidden outside the house or sneak inside and hide in the shadows, sniffing the scent of the yet to be born baby. When it leaves, the baby would also be gone inside the womb, which results to bleeding. It is speculated that the kantanod is actually not physically present in the vicinity and it is in fact its astral body that spirits away the child. Similar to the ghoulish Berbalang of Cagayan Sulu, the kantanod sends out its astral body to the house of the victim after marking her out.
A similar non-physical method is utilized by the psychic vampire Aswang na Gala (wandering aswang) of the Tagalogs. Although it generally preys on severely ill, weary, stressed, or dying persons, it also feeds on the life force of unborn children, which results to still births or miscarriages. Other unnamed walkers who use little to no physical contact with victims have been mentioned in various stories. They would just pass by a *******t woman, a part of their bodies just grazing the victim’s bloated belly and voila! Goodbye baby.
The Tiyu-an, on the other hand, has retained the use of proboscis. Found in the old folklore in Capiz province, it appears as an ordinary woman. At night it jumps on the roof of a victim, prowls under the elevated floor in the form of a black pig, or enters the house unnoticed. It will then extend its tongue into a very long and thin proboscis and pierce the mother’s belly and suck the blood of the fetus inside. In some cases it will lick and sniff a severely ill person, sucking the life force until the victim dies. The tiyu-an is only female and owns a puppy that never grows old. This puppy is actually the master from whom she got her powers and with whom she shares a part of her quarry. The ageless mutt is passed down from one generation to another like a family heirloom. When the puppy licks the tiyu-an, it means it’s time for her to hunt.
Similar to the tiyu-an’s method is that used by the Mansusopsop. It perches on the roof of an expectant woman’s house and finds a way to introduce its very long tongue inside to feed on the victim. Unlike its other walker counterparts, the mansusopsop looks monstrous with thick eyebrows, big almost bulging eyes, a slender and bony body, and abnormally long arms and legs.
The non-aswang
There are some non-aswang creatures in Philippine folklore that display fetus-eating habits. One such example is the Matruculan from Luzon. This monster will rip a *******t woman’s belly open so it could eat the unborn child within the womb. It is also said that sometimes it would impregnate a ****** just to devour its own spawn later when the victim is about to give birth.
References:
Andres, T.D. Dictionary of Filipino Culture and Values.
Ramos, Maximo D. Creatures of Midnight.
Ramos, Maximo D. The Aswang Syncrasy in Philipine Folklore.
Wilson, Collin. Occult.
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In the province of Aklan in Panay Island, Western Visayas the Tanggae looks similar to the manananggal but it has the ability to disguise its discarded lower half as an anthill to avoid getting caught off-guard while its other half was away hunting.
Not all winged self-segmenters possess leathery, bat-like wings and not all look hideous. One account relates that a female cow-herder was attacked by a winged creature with the head of a doll-faced young woman with hair the color of straw. Its wings were avian and created gusts of wind as they flapped in the air. The said creature could be related to the Boroka which is known for its beauty and bird-like wings. There are also first-hand accounts of encounters with self-segmenters akin to manananggals, which fly without wings, known as Anananggal in some parts of Visayas.
2. The non-self-segmenters
Those belonging to this subgroup never discard any of their body parts when looking for prey. They could easily sense if a person is terminally ill by just sniffing the air. When in their human form, most are usually disguised as vegetable, fish, or meat vendors or peddlers of other goods, plying their trade in different communities while on the lookout for *******t women to victimize. That is why in the olden days and even up to now, especially in the rural areas, peddlers who are total strangers in a village are held under suspicion by the locals because they might be up-to-no-good aswangs. They know if an expectant mother is ripe for picking by the scent of the fetus inside the womb, which to them emits a very sweet smell. The smell is so irresistible that some of them couldn’t help but make a remark about the *******cy or glance frequently at the bloated belly of the victim. It is said this smell is akin to that of ripe jack fruit locally known as langka. When they find a target victim, they remember the location of the house for a late night visit. Before flying off to the victim’s house a non-self-segmenter would anoint its whole body with specially-made oil or ointment and bend over while muttering an incantation or, if it is a moonlit night, chant to the moon with raised arms until the skin turns as black as pitch and as slippery as an eel. Their teeth grow longer, their fingernails turn into claws, and most grow leathery wings like those of bats. Some like the Ekek or Ek-Ek are said to grow beaks lined with sharp teeth. Their toes turn into sharp grasping talons while their arms extend into powerful bird-like wings. During flight the ekek make a shrill sound from which their name is derived. Most don’t attack the victim outright on the first few nights but only observe and savor the smell of the fetus. When they finally attack they usually land on the roof directly above the sleeping victim or cling outside the window should the victim be located in a room in the first floor. This is how the Visayan Wak-Wak attacks *******t women. The wak-wak is often confused with the manananggal but it is different from the latter. This creature looks very human but could grow bat wings with its arms and never leaves its lower half behind. In some circumstances a wak-wak chooses to walk or run than fly, especially when a victim’s house is considerably near its residence. Those who claim to have come face to face with a wak-wak said the creature sometimes walked backward on all fours with its body bent and the head tucked between the thighs. When not hunting for *******t women, it ambushes lone travelers at night, straddling their backs with its legs wrapped tightly round the victims’ waist while attempting to strangle them. It makes a successive sound similar to its name during the entire ordeal or when it is on its way to a victim’s location. To deceive or confuse the victim of its presence, it makes a loud sound when far away and softens it into a faint shriek as if it had left when in fact it’s already near the victim. The wak-wak and the ekek penetrate a victim’s womb using their thread-like proboscis. Like the two creatures, the Tiktik, an aswang from the Visayas region with large, leathery but avian-looking wings also feeds in similar manner but it does this inside the victim’s house. The tiktik sneaks into the sleeping victim’s house, crawls on the walls, and upon finding the victim, suspends itself inverted on top of her like a bat and extends its long tongue to pierce the womb. A tiktik also looks more human in terms of facial traits and body shape but generally hideous.
Another hideous-looking fetus-eater is the ghoulish Balbal of Tagbanua folklore. It is described as having long, curved nails, large ears, big bloodshot eyes, and emits a putrid stench from the corpses it devoured. One could tell its presence by its smell alone. When not searching for a corpse, a balbal glides in the night sky like a flying squirrel and clings outside the window of an intended victim. It would then use its tubular tongue to extract the delicious unborn child.
In Cuyo, Palawan the people feared the Mangalok, a flyer described as having the pretty face of a woman. During the day the creature sleeps on the tallest branches, its hair covering its face. After sunset the mangalok awakens and flies off in search of people to prey on. Young individuals and *******t women are its preferred victims. Upon finding a sleeping *******t woman, it will enter the house unseen, for it can render itself invisible, and feed on the yet to be born child in the womb using its long hollow tongue through the mother’s navel.
There are other unnamed fetus-sucking non-self-segmenters mentioned in many accounts. They are generally described as persons with coal-black skin and prowl outside the house or perch on the roof of a victim’s house. When caught in the act, they jump in the air and fly off without the aid of wings.
The walkers
No, not those hoard of walking reanimated corpses in The Walking Dead series. The walkers here refer to a group sub-group of fetus-eaters that are unable to fly and belong to the Aswang na Lakad (walking aswang) group. Most appear as normal humans and live very normal lives often mingling with the human populace, making it difficult to tell if they really are aswangs. In the olden days persons with hunched or forward slumping postures were suspected as aswang na lakad because of this kind of aswangs’ habit of prowling under the elevated houses especially in rural areas. But with advances in science, this supposed identifier became unreliable, for people with such conditions were not really creatures of the night but were persons who had bone deficiencies.
Unlike their self-segmenting and lupad cousins, not all walkers have proboscis-like tongues. Some have even transcended the need for physical contact in feeding on their victims. One example is the method employed by the ordinary-looking Kantanod. When it catches the scent of a *******t woman, it follows the victim to her home where it will either sit hidden outside the house or sneak inside and hide in the shadows, sniffing the scent of the yet to be born baby. When it leaves, the baby would also be gone inside the womb, which results to bleeding. It is speculated that the kantanod is actually not physically present in the vicinity and it is in fact its astral body that spirits away the child. Similar to the ghoulish Berbalang of Cagayan Sulu, the kantanod sends out its astral body to the house of the victim after marking her out.
A similar non-physical method is utilized by the psychic vampire Aswang na Gala (wandering aswang) of the Tagalogs. Although it generally preys on severely ill, weary, stressed, or dying persons, it also feeds on the life force of unborn children, which results to still births or miscarriages. Other unnamed walkers who use little to no physical contact with victims have been mentioned in various stories. They would just pass by a *******t woman, a part of their bodies just grazing the victim’s bloated belly and voila! Goodbye baby.
The Tiyu-an, on the other hand, has retained the use of proboscis. Found in the old folklore in Capiz province, it appears as an ordinary woman. At night it jumps on the roof of a victim, prowls under the elevated floor in the form of a black pig, or enters the house unnoticed. It will then extend its tongue into a very long and thin proboscis and pierce the mother’s belly and suck the blood of the fetus inside. In some cases it will lick and sniff a severely ill person, sucking the life force until the victim dies. The tiyu-an is only female and owns a puppy that never grows old. This puppy is actually the master from whom she got her powers and with whom she shares a part of her quarry. The ageless mutt is passed down from one generation to another like a family heirloom. When the puppy licks the tiyu-an, it means it’s time for her to hunt.
Similar to the tiyu-an’s method is that used by the Mansusopsop. It perches on the roof of an expectant woman’s house and finds a way to introduce its very long tongue inside to feed on the victim. Unlike its other walker counterparts, the mansusopsop looks monstrous with thick eyebrows, big almost bulging eyes, a slender and bony body, and abnormally long arms and legs.
The non-aswang
There are some non-aswang creatures in Philippine folklore that display fetus-eating habits. One such example is the Matruculan from Luzon. This monster will rip a *******t woman’s belly open so it could eat the unborn child within the womb. It is also said that sometimes it would impregnate a ****** just to devour its own spawn later when the victim is about to give birth.
References:
Andres, T.D. Dictionary of Filipino Culture and Values.
Ramos, Maximo D. Creatures of Midnight.
Ramos, Maximo D. The Aswang Syncrasy in Philipine Folklore.
Wilson, Collin. Occult.
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