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The Philippines is inhabited by many peoples, and despite the continued influence of Christian and Islamic missionary work, Filipinos still believe in giants, dragons and, so to speak, local demonic creatures. Myths are especially popular, narrating about a demon named aswang, or tick-tick.
Aswang demon in the image of a beautiful woman
The Filipinos aswang demon is a witch, a werewolf, and vampire all rolled into one. Aswangha usually looks like a young woman, however, she knows the recipe for a magic ointment that turns her into a large black bird.
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With a cry of “kikak,” the werewolf flies into its prey’s house and long, strong, hollow tongue inside pierces her neck vein, after which he drinks all the blood. By the way, tick-tick sounds are heard it is when the predatory tongue of aswang sucks blood miserable.
The victims of this demonic creature are usually sick people, as well as children and pregnant women. Saturated the asvanga itself is already becoming like a pregnant woman and, Having returned home, he feeds his children with someone else’s blood. Filipinos they accuse this creature of yet another sin: for the sake of the heart and liver asvangs steal small children, including those not yet born babies.
They do not disdain corpse eating: they may very well abduct the dead body, and instead leave the trunk of a banana tree, hewn in the shape of a human figure. In addition, aswangs can turn people in animals and animals in people. It also happens that a malicious tic tic seduces men with its beauty and, luring in a secluded place, connects them with vines, and then eats it alive.
Ugly old woman
Mananangal is a kind of aswang that looks like ugly old woman who knows how to fly. She owes this property special glands that secrete a certain oily substance. This is how one Englishman described his meeting with this a monster that happened on a quiet moonlit night.
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Standing at the open window, he suddenly saw a dark spot in the sky, which gradually increased in size and finally took shape in an old woman with huge webbed wings! .. The old woman had red flaming eyes and crooked long arms with pointed nails. Her skin was dark, like night itself. Eyewitness admits that in his life he did not see anything worse – a witch itself!..
Gathering the remnants of courage, he shut the windows tightly and froze. Creepy manangangal flew past the house and disappeared, and frightened the Englishman did not sleep a wink until the morning …
Especially evil and demonic Filipinos consider asvang, in the womb of which lives a black chicken. But if a witch for any reason this chicken will lose, then with it will lose all its supernatural abilities and become an ordinary woman …
Aswangs – Night Demons
Both old and young Aswangs share a common quality: their demonism manifests itself only at night. If, for example, the sun’s rays touch the magic ointment, it immediately evaporates. Exactly the same luminary destroys the black chicken living inside the witch. If the same asvanga will meet the rays of the sun in the air, then it can simply fall down to the ground. Rain is also dangerous for her: its streams are washed away with witches witching ointment …
To save themselves from evil demons, Filipinos use various remedies, including traditional garlic, silver, ash, salt, raw rice. According to legend, it is especially dangerous for evil male sperm, which causes inflammation in aswan. Also they say that these entities cannot stand the smell of burnt rubber …
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And finally, it’s worth telling an instructive story that lives in the legends of the Filipino people calling themselves the word “and snow”. One sixteen-year-old beauty got married, and a year later her husband is dead. Subsequently, she married three more times, but each of the spouses faded throughout the year. The fifth husband suspected something was amiss and began to pretend to be sleeping, while keeping it ready knife.
Once, after midnight, a man felt someone lay on him, clutched his neck and tried to suck blood. Grabbing a knife, he drove weapon into a bloodsucker – and heard a piercing scream and disgusting flapping wings. And the next day his wife was found near the house, in the beauty’s chest wound with a knife wound …
Werewolves Birds
