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It shares its diet of blood with vampires of Western cultures. The vampire aswang disguises itself in the shape of a beautiful woman. These categories are the vampire, the self-segmenting viscera sucker, the weredog, the witch, and the ghoul. These creatures can be organized into five categories that parallel creatures from Western traditions. Juan de Plasencia, Customs of the Tagalogs (1589) Description and taxonomy Īccording to Maximo Ramos, the term "aswang" can be thought of as an aggregate term for a multitude of Filipino supernatural creatures. This was among the Visayas Islands among the Tagalos these did not exist."įr. The eighth they called osuang, which is equivalent to 'sorcerer ' they say that they have seen him fly, and that he murdered men and ate their flesh. This seems to be a fable, although the natives affirm that they have seen it, because the devil probably caused them so to believe. In such wise the devil walked about and carried, or pretended to carry, his head to different places and, in the morning, returned it to his body-remaining, as before, alive. The seventh was called manananggal, and his purpose was to show himself at night to many persons, without his head or entrails. Let no one, moreover, consider this a fable because, in Calavan, they tore out in this way through the anus all the intestines of a Spanish notary, who was buried in Calilaya by father Fray Juan de Mérida. This, like the preceding, was in the island of Catanduanes.

"The sixth was called silagan, whose office it was, if they saw anyone clothed in white, to tear out his liver and eat it, thus causing his death. The aswang is especially popular in southern parts of Luzon, and some parts of Mindanao and Visayas, especially the Visayan province of Capiz. Although with no specific motive other than harming others, their behavior can be interpreted as an inversion of the traditional Filipino's values.

Spanish colonists noted that the aswang was the most feared among the mythical creatures of the Philippines, even in the 16th century. The aswang is the subject of a wide variety of myths, stories, arts, and films, as it is well known throughout the Philippines. Aswang is an umbrella term for various shape-shifting evil creatures in Filipino folklore, such as vampires, ghouls, witches, viscera suckers, and transforming human-beast hybrids (usually dogs, cats, pigs).