ASWANG
Many Filipino people believe that here on our place there are living creatures that we can't only see and we can't even notice,because we take it as nothing, but mostly old people and the traditional people have their different kinds of beliefs such as aswang as a Filipino vampire, but the region of Ilocos don't believe on the said creature because they does not have a equivalent myth. The aswangs are popular in visayan region of the Philippines,especially in the westwern provinces in Capiz.
Aswang is the combination of vampire and witch and almost all female, and these witches sometimes;
However, the most fearful creatures are the ghoul, they are the eater of the dead, and they will just replace one trunk of banana in the coffin, that's why my grandmother said that never to leave the wake without someone who will guard it. There is a type of aswang I know is the kik-kik or the tik-tik, they turns into an enormous prowling bat or bird at night,looking for a pregnant women. Sometimes they are under the bamboo or woody house,sometimes too they are over the house with their sticky tongue,and when their victim is sleeping they will lick the pregnant women without knowing and suck their blood until they can get the fetus and they will eat it.
The tale that I have really never forgotten the tale when I was a child, is that when the dying aswang in the member of the family can't really continue to rest if the small thing so called stone is never pass by another member of the family.
Nowadays, many people already watched many movies of vampires, and other thriller movies. In the literature of vampire, revolve from the often repulsive figures of folklore. Fictional vampires can be in the romantic figures often describes as elegant and sexy. This is in stark contrast to the vampire of Eastern European folklore, which was a horrifying and animated corpse. however as in folklore, the literary vampire is sustained by drinking blood. They do not need other food, water or even oxygen. They are sometimes portrayed as being unable to eat human food at all, forcing them to either avoid public dining or mime chewing and eating to deceive their mortal victims. Somehow fictional vampire have a very pale appearance and their skin is so soft to touch and so cool. as in folklore literary vampire can usually be warded off with garlic and symbols of Christian faith,such as the Holy water, the crucifix, or a rosary.
"From my grave to wander I am forced
Still to seek the God's long sever'd link,
Still to love the bridegroom i have lost,
And the lifeblood of his heart to drink"
From the story of "The Bride of Corinth"
Aswang is the combination of vampire and witch and almost all female, and these witches sometimes;
- mananangals
- shape shifters
- lycanthropes
- monsters
However, the most fearful creatures are the ghoul, they are the eater of the dead, and they will just replace one trunk of banana in the coffin, that's why my grandmother said that never to leave the wake without someone who will guard it. There is a type of aswang I know is the kik-kik or the tik-tik, they turns into an enormous prowling bat or bird at night,looking for a pregnant women. Sometimes they are under the bamboo or woody house,sometimes too they are over the house with their sticky tongue,and when their victim is sleeping they will lick the pregnant women without knowing and suck their blood until they can get the fetus and they will eat it.
The tale that I have really never forgotten the tale when I was a child, is that when the dying aswang in the member of the family can't really continue to rest if the small thing so called stone is never pass by another member of the family.
Nowadays, many people already watched many movies of vampires, and other thriller movies. In the literature of vampire, revolve from the often repulsive figures of folklore. Fictional vampires can be in the romantic figures often describes as elegant and sexy. This is in stark contrast to the vampire of Eastern European folklore, which was a horrifying and animated corpse. however as in folklore, the literary vampire is sustained by drinking blood. They do not need other food, water or even oxygen. They are sometimes portrayed as being unable to eat human food at all, forcing them to either avoid public dining or mime chewing and eating to deceive their mortal victims. Somehow fictional vampire have a very pale appearance and their skin is so soft to touch and so cool. as in folklore literary vampire can usually be warded off with garlic and symbols of Christian faith,such as the Holy water, the crucifix, or a rosary.
"From my grave to wander I am forced
Still to seek the God's long sever'd link,
Still to love the bridegroom i have lost,
And the lifeblood of his heart to drink"
From the story of "The Bride of Corinth"
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