I'm Filipina and I've always favoured the aswang. I love my folklore.
The aswang is sort of like the werewolf here, a rather versatile shape-shifter, and is, in general, a ghoul. The root of all this is actually a little bird that resides in the aswang's belly, and from what I've deduced, is the one triggering the transformations and
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