AbatThe Abat is a good looking woman by day and a hideous flying creature that sucks intestines and fetus at night.
As darkness envelopes the sky, its eyes turn in bloody red and grows too big that it bulges out of her eye sockets. Her tongue would then become similar to a long thin tube. Her arms become wings that allow her to soar. As she is about to fly, the lower half of her body is separated. Before she flies to find her prey, she would hide her lower body by covering it with a banig, a sleeping mat made out of straw. The Abat sits on the roof of her victim where she would drop her elongated tongue on a hole in the roof. The tongue drops slowly and would begin to stick with the stomach. She would then suck the intestines of her victim who is asleep or babies inside the womb of sleeping pregnant women. In order to counter Abats, windows are closed and people try to sleep away under the roof ridges. Shells of crabs and globefish are hung at the ceiling while bolos are then hung from the walls. |
Also known as: Awok
Origin: Waray Creature Type: Viscera Eater Habitat: Houses in Communities Etymology: N/A |