ASWANG - Cryptozoology Favourites

[histrionic_g]

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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[natsumyre]

Is the Tiktik the mananaggal? I remember this old Filipino scary movie where the manananggal did exactly like what you said a Tiktik does...

the manananggal did exactly like what you said a Tiktik does...

[histrionic_g]

Possibly.
I made one of my sources explain and it seems like the tiktik and the kukok are bird-like creatures.

[faery_inpain]

^_^