What are Aswangs (Asuwang or Manananggal)?
• This is a strange breed of vampyre unique to Philippines (Visayas, Bikol, Ilikano, Tagalog, Cuyonon). The legend tells a story about a race of mostly women who shape shift at night and feed on their victim’s blood and viscera. They particularly like the embryos of pregnant women. There are similar incarnations in Thailand and other parts of South East Asian countries. • • Strengths: By day she looks like a normal woman. She can be unaffected by the sunlight unlike the typical nosferatu. She is not exactly a day walker, but she gains her supernatural powers as night approaches. She can easily disembowel and feed from victims with her long piercing tongue. Before midnight, she separates from her lower half and sprouts bat-like wings for nighttime flight. Some say she can resemble a bat or a bird in full transformation. She can appear very charming and can transform you into a creature of the night by blowing down the back of your neck. • Weaknesses: Aswangs do not like vinegar, garlic
