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346 – Aswang
It’s monster Saturday! Actually, maybe monster MONDAY would be more appropriate, but who looks at webcomics on a Monday? Not me! Okay, I’ll call it SCARY monster Saturday. There, that’s some nice alliteration. So on Saturdays, I’ll just post a little blurb about some child-eating monsters from around the world. Hopefully it’ll be as fun for you as it will be for me!
First up is THE ASWANG. During the day, the aswang of the Philippines (also known as the manananggal) looks like any other normal human. But at night, her upper torso seperates and flies through the sky, intestines trailing, in search of food. Unborn babies are her preferred meal (although she also relishes the livers and intestines of small children). She perches on the roof and snakes her tongue into the room below to suck the fetuses from pregnant women as they sleep. The aswang can only be killed if you prevent her from rejoining her two halves before dawn — if you find her hidden lower torso and sprinkle it with vinegar, she won’t be able to reconnect and will perish with the first rays of the rising sun.
It’s monster Saturday! Actually, maybe monster MONDAY would be more appropriate, but who looks at webcomics on a Monday? Not me! Okay, I’ll call it SCARY monster Saturday. There, that’s some nice alliteration. So on Saturdays, I’ll just post a little blurb about some child-eating monsters from around the world. Hopefully it’ll be as fun for you as it will be for me!
First up is THE ASWANG. During the day, the aswang of the Philippines (also known as the manananggal) looks like any other normal human. But at night, her upper torso seperates and flies through the sky, intestines trailing, in search of food. Unborn babies are her preferred meal (although she also relishes the livers and intestines of small children). She perches on the roof and snakes her tongue into the room below to suck the fetuses from pregnant women as they sleep. The aswang can only be killed if you prevent her from rejoining her two halves before dawn — if you find her hidden lower torso and sprinkle it with vinegar, she won’t be able to reconnect and will perish with the first rays of the rising sun.
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Oh no, it's all over the place. They've done Jorogumo and stuff from Japan/Asia besides the Filipino Aswang, they've done quite a few from Latin America as well such as El Cucuy and La Llorona, and they've done some Native American/indigenous legends such as Wendigos and the like. Yeah, quite a bit is Northern European, but that's only because the "Grimm" ancestry of the show mostly originated from there. The writers even said they try to make sure to branch out to other possible stories and legends than just German/French/English myths. There was even an episode about Koschei from Slavic/Russian stories.
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