Aswang (Ghoul)The Cadaver-eating Aswang is a creature that steals corpses at night to change them into pigs to feed upon. The term Aswang is a generic term for monsters in the Philippines.
It appears as ordinary humans by day, even living in contemporary homes. At night, the Aswang would wait for any sound that implies a person died and goes to the scene of death. They would steal the body of the person that just died and turn it into a pig to feed their family. They also offer them to their neighbors who become ghoulish aswangs too once they eat the dead body that was magically transformed into a pig. Ghoulish aswangs are afraid of knives, fire, vinegars and spices. |
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Origin: Cebuano, Waray Creature Type: Ghoul Habitat: Houses in Communities Etymology: N/A |