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Maria Labo
Philippine Folklore
Loud thumping breaks the evening calm and wakes Gina. The visibly *******t woman instinctively clutches her midsection as she scans the room. She shakes her husband Jomari out of sleep as the pattering continues outside their home.
The hut creaks as though someone was scaling the roof and as Gina's attention lands on the window, she catches a figure of a woman.
As Jomari takes his bolo and tries to pierce the intruder through the nipa, Gina wraps her arm around her unborn child.
Could it be Maria Labo on the roof?
There is a gruesome story of a woman, turned vampire, somewhere from Iloilo or Capiz that took rural and urban communities by storm. A caring mother and wife wanted to give her family an affluent life, so she tried her luck in Canada as an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW). It was said that this lady worked for an employer who was suffering from an unknown disease. Later on before his dying breath, the employer passed on his alleged vampiric power to the unknowing caregiver. The lady accepted the said power without knowing the staggering price she would pay.
The effect of the curse only took hold as the OFW returned home to the Philippines. The hunger for human flesh became so dominating, that she eventually killed and cooked her two sons. She was then emerged as full-fledged Aswang, a Philippine folklore creature akin to the vampires and ghouls of western mythology. All hell broke loose when her husband arrived home and saw the twisted acts of his wife. The insanity of the affliction and her craving for human flesh made her offer the cooked flesh to her husband. Fierce fury drove the husband to attack his wife with a bolo. Slashing with a blind fury.
The woman received a serious wound in her face, but managed to escape. Until today she is said to roam all over the Philippines in search of her next meal. In time this lady would be known as “Maria Labo” (labo is an Ilonggo term which means “to slash” using a bolo knife or itak) due to the large scar that make her a grotesque figure of nightmares.
The woman with a scar on her face:
Young kids in small towns across Western Visayas are warned against staying out too late. Some children run from the fields to their homes come sunset for fear that a woman with a large scar on her face will take them.
They learn about her from their parents, who talk of a woman who left the country and came back frighteningly different.
The story starts with a young couple, Maria and Damien, living in a small town in Western Visayas. Damien was a police officer and Maria was a homemaker who looked after their kids, Toto and Inday.
Though happy in their humble home, they struggle to make ends meet. The desire to provide a better life for her family prompts Maria to apply for a job overseas.
She returns years later, much to Damien's delight, and things seemingly return to normal even as terror seems to strike the town.
A body of child turns up, shocking the people in the community. There is a hole in his abdomen and his insides have been torn out.
This causes Damien to worry when his own children don't come to greet him one afternoon. As he is searching, he finds his wife battering a chopping block with her cleaver as she furiously minces pieces of meat.
She pays the same amount of attention to him as the blood splattering on herself as she chops. Damien continues to search as Maria begins to cook.
"Naririnig mo ba ako? Nasaan ang anak natin?" Damien asks, to which Maria responds, "Kumain ka muna… másáráp itong inihanda ko para sa iyo…"
Maria dotes on her husband, encouraging him to stop looking for the children and enjoy the meal she prepared first. She leaves him to eat to inspect something outside and as soon as she leaves, sobbing from under the table draws Damien's attention.
He finds their son, Toto, curled up on the floor and staring at the refrigerator. Damien hurries to his feet to find out what the young boy is looking at and as he throws the refrigerator door open, it becomes apparent that all is not well with his wife.
häçked limbs from little children are crammed inside the fridge and Damien recognizes one hand as Toto's. He races to their baby's cradle and grows cold when he finds it empty.
Damien takes his bolo and looks for his wife. He sees her just outside their house, crouched over something he cannot identify just yet.
In her mouth, he discovers as she turns to face him, are the viscera of an infant.
The world dims and all Damien could do was strike her face — leaving a scar.
Maria becomes an urban legend in the region, her name derived from the Ilonggo work for häçk: "labo."
The facts behind the fiction:
The flash report of her crime inspired a radio drama and in 2015, she even become the subject of a film by veteran actor Roi Vinzon.
Maria Labo's story has spread across Western Visayas and "Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho" learned that people have added more details to the story. Some have seen her roaming villages, others claim that she's now a manicurist in Negros.
PO2 Ronsky Libo-on told KMJS that the authorities did not respond to or hear of a case of a woman häçking her kids to death.
"Base po doon sa check naming record mula 1999 hanggang 2002, wala po kaming nakitang report na kahalintulad doon sa sinasabi ninyo na mayroong babae na tumatakbo papuntang tubuhan na may dala-dalang bata at saka pumatay po sa mga anak," Dibuon declared.
Kagawad Lovella Palma of Barangay Akwit, Barotac, Nuevo — where Maria and Damien allegedly lived — similarly denied that such a horrifying crime occured in their town.
"Dito sa barangay kasi 'pag may isang balita, halos lahat ng tao nagkaalaman kasi 'yong balita dito 'pag sa barangay nangyari, alam talaga ng lahat," Palma said. "Pero in our case, sa ganyang istorya, hindi po namin talaga nalaman at saka hindi po nag-exist dito sa aming barangay."
She may not exist in records, but for many people who have heard her story...she lives on. Lurking and waiting to pounce on unsuspecting children.
Philippine Folklore
Loud thumping breaks the evening calm and wakes Gina. The visibly *******t woman instinctively clutches her midsection as she scans the room. She shakes her husband Jomari out of sleep as the pattering continues outside their home.
The hut creaks as though someone was scaling the roof and as Gina's attention lands on the window, she catches a figure of a woman.
As Jomari takes his bolo and tries to pierce the intruder through the nipa, Gina wraps her arm around her unborn child.
Could it be Maria Labo on the roof?
There is a gruesome story of a woman, turned vampire, somewhere from Iloilo or Capiz that took rural and urban communities by storm. A caring mother and wife wanted to give her family an affluent life, so she tried her luck in Canada as an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW). It was said that this lady worked for an employer who was suffering from an unknown disease. Later on before his dying breath, the employer passed on his alleged vampiric power to the unknowing caregiver. The lady accepted the said power without knowing the staggering price she would pay.
The effect of the curse only took hold as the OFW returned home to the Philippines. The hunger for human flesh became so dominating, that she eventually killed and cooked her two sons. She was then emerged as full-fledged Aswang, a Philippine folklore creature akin to the vampires and ghouls of western mythology. All hell broke loose when her husband arrived home and saw the twisted acts of his wife. The insanity of the affliction and her craving for human flesh made her offer the cooked flesh to her husband. Fierce fury drove the husband to attack his wife with a bolo. Slashing with a blind fury.
The woman received a serious wound in her face, but managed to escape. Until today she is said to roam all over the Philippines in search of her next meal. In time this lady would be known as “Maria Labo” (labo is an Ilonggo term which means “to slash” using a bolo knife or itak) due to the large scar that make her a grotesque figure of nightmares.
The woman with a scar on her face:
Young kids in small towns across Western Visayas are warned against staying out too late. Some children run from the fields to their homes come sunset for fear that a woman with a large scar on her face will take them.
They learn about her from their parents, who talk of a woman who left the country and came back frighteningly different.
The story starts with a young couple, Maria and Damien, living in a small town in Western Visayas. Damien was a police officer and Maria was a homemaker who looked after their kids, Toto and Inday.
Though happy in their humble home, they struggle to make ends meet. The desire to provide a better life for her family prompts Maria to apply for a job overseas.
She returns years later, much to Damien's delight, and things seemingly return to normal even as terror seems to strike the town.
A body of child turns up, shocking the people in the community. There is a hole in his abdomen and his insides have been torn out.
This causes Damien to worry when his own children don't come to greet him one afternoon. As he is searching, he finds his wife battering a chopping block with her cleaver as she furiously minces pieces of meat.
She pays the same amount of attention to him as the blood splattering on herself as she chops. Damien continues to search as Maria begins to cook.
"Naririnig mo ba ako? Nasaan ang anak natin?" Damien asks, to which Maria responds, "Kumain ka muna… másáráp itong inihanda ko para sa iyo…"
Maria dotes on her husband, encouraging him to stop looking for the children and enjoy the meal she prepared first. She leaves him to eat to inspect something outside and as soon as she leaves, sobbing from under the table draws Damien's attention.
He finds their son, Toto, curled up on the floor and staring at the refrigerator. Damien hurries to his feet to find out what the young boy is looking at and as he throws the refrigerator door open, it becomes apparent that all is not well with his wife.
häçked limbs from little children are crammed inside the fridge and Damien recognizes one hand as Toto's. He races to their baby's cradle and grows cold when he finds it empty.
Damien takes his bolo and looks for his wife. He sees her just outside their house, crouched over something he cannot identify just yet.
In her mouth, he discovers as she turns to face him, are the viscera of an infant.
The world dims and all Damien could do was strike her face — leaving a scar.
Maria becomes an urban legend in the region, her name derived from the Ilonggo work for häçk: "labo."
The facts behind the fiction:
The flash report of her crime inspired a radio drama and in 2015, she even become the subject of a film by veteran actor Roi Vinzon.
Maria Labo's story has spread across Western Visayas and "Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho" learned that people have added more details to the story. Some have seen her roaming villages, others claim that she's now a manicurist in Negros.
PO2 Ronsky Libo-on told KMJS that the authorities did not respond to or hear of a case of a woman häçking her kids to death.
"Base po doon sa check naming record mula 1999 hanggang 2002, wala po kaming nakitang report na kahalintulad doon sa sinasabi ninyo na mayroong babae na tumatakbo papuntang tubuhan na may dala-dalang bata at saka pumatay po sa mga anak," Dibuon declared.
Kagawad Lovella Palma of Barangay Akwit, Barotac, Nuevo — where Maria and Damien allegedly lived — similarly denied that such a horrifying crime occured in their town.
"Dito sa barangay kasi 'pag may isang balita, halos lahat ng tao nagkaalaman kasi 'yong balita dito 'pag sa barangay nangyari, alam talaga ng lahat," Palma said. "Pero in our case, sa ganyang istorya, hindi po namin talaga nalaman at saka hindi po nag-exist dito sa aming barangay."
She may not exist in records, but for many people who have heard her story...she lives on. Lurking and waiting to pounce on unsuspecting children.
tapos yung itsura palang. Creepy na.