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A collection of intriguing topics and fascinating stories
about the rare, the paranormal, and the strange
Monsters and Cryptids
Volume 13
Journey into the mysterious realm of cryptids.
Uncover mysterious cases of psychic phenomena, ghosts and UFOs.
Pablo C. Agsalud Jr.
Revision 6
Foreword
In the past, things like
television,
and words and
ideas like
advertising, capitalism, microwave
and
cancer
all seemed too strange for the ordinary
man.
As man walks towards the future, overloaded with
information, more mysteries have been solved
through the wonders of science. Although some
things remained too odd for science to reproduce
or disprove, man had placed them in the gray
areas between
truth
and
skepticism
and labeled
them with terminologies fit for the modern age.
But the truth is, as long as the strange and
unexplainable cases keep piling up, the more likely
it would seem normal or natural. Answers are
always elusive and far too fewer than questions.
And yet, behind all the wonderful and frightening
phenomena around us, it is possible that what we
call
mysterious
today won’t be too strange
tomorrow.
This book might encourage you to believe or refute
what lies beyond your own understanding.
Nonetheless, I hope it will keep you entertained
and astonished.
The content of this book remains believable for as
long as the sources and/or the references from the
specified sources exist and that the validity of the
information remains unchallenged.
Creepy Cryptids
These are the most common mythical creatures known to man.
A cryptid is an animal whose existence is not confirmed by science. The study of
these creatures is known as
cryptozoology.
Those that study the existence of
cryptids are called
cryptozoologists.
Cryptids have been sighted and documented
for centuries. There are hundreds of creatures thought to be in existence today.
Aswang
Wikipedia.org
An Aswang (or Asuwang) is a mythical creature in Filipino folklore. The aswang is an
inherently evil vampire-like creature and is the subject of a wide variety of myths and stories.
Spanish colonists noted that the Aswang was the most feared among the mythical creatures of
the Philippines, even in the 16th century.
The myth of the aswang is well known throughout the Philippines, except in the Ilocos region,
which is the only region that does not have an equivalent myth. It is especially popular in the
Western Visayan regions such as Capiz, Iloilo, Negros, Bohol, Masbate, Aklan, Antique. Other
regional names for the aswang include "tik-tik", "wak-wak" and "soc-soc".
Definition
"Aswang" is a generic term applied to all types of witches, vampires, manananggals,
shapeshifters, werebeasts and monsters. The original definition is an eater of the dead, also
called the
bal-bal
(maninilong in Catanauan, Quezon), which replaces the cadaver with
banana trunks after consumption. Aswang stories and definitions vary greatly from region to
region and person to person, and no particular set of characteristics can be ascribed to the
term. However, the term is mostly used interchangeably with
manananggal
and are also
usually depicted as female.
Superstitions
Before modern medicine and science, aswangs served to explain miscarriages and other
maladies. Today, aside from entertainment value, Filipino mothers often tell their children
aswang stories to keep them off the streets and keep them home at night.
Like UFO stories, aswang stories are one of the favorites of sensationalist tabloids, especially
when there are grave robberies, kidnapped children, strange noises, people with eccentric or
peculiar habits, and other bizarre incidents that can somehow be attributed to them.
Stories of the aswang are popular in the Visayan region of the Philippines, especially in the
western provinces of Capiz (a province on Panay Island), Iloilo and Antique. Capiz, in
particular, is singled out by tabloids as an area of high supernatural activity: a home to
aswangs, manananggals, giant half-horse men (tikbalang) and other mythological creatures.
Many of those who live in Capiz are superstitiously inclined, and adorn their homes with garlic
bulbs, holy water and other objects believed to repel aswang. Since the stories recount
aswang eating unborn children, pregnancy is a time of great fear for superstitious Filipinos.
In Southern Luzon, the city of Antipolo is rumoured by locals to be a popular place for Aswang
sightings, especially during the Holy Week, where legend says that paranormal activities are at
their peak during the three days that Christ was dead.
Some have contended that the aswang is the progenitor of many classified cryptozoological
species.
Appearance and activities
The wide variety of descriptions in the aswang stories make it difficult to settle upon a fixed
definition of aswang appearances or activities. However, several common themes that
differentiate aswangs from other mythological creatures do emerge: Aswangs are
shapeshifters. Stories recount aswangs living as regular townspeople. As regular townspeople,
they are quiet, shy and elusive. At night, they transform into creatures such as a cat, pig,
bird, or most often, a dog. They enjoy eating unborn fetuses and small children, favoring
livers and hearts. Some have long proboscises, which they use to suck the children out of their
mothers' wombs or their homes. Some are so thin that they can hide themselves behind a
bamboo post. They are fast and silent. Some also make noises, like the Tik-Tik, (the name
was derived from the sound it produces) which are louder the further away the aswang is, to
confuse its potential victim; and the Bubuu, an aggressive kind of aswang that makes a sound
of a laying hen at midnight. They may also replace their live victims or stolen cadavers with
doppelgangers made from tree trunks or other plant materials. This facsimile will return to the
victim's home, only to become sick and die. An aswang will also have bloodshot eyes, the
result of staying up all night searching for houses where wakes are held to steal the bodies.

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