"Aswang"

                 Aswang is a generic generic term applied to all types of witches,vampires,monsters,mananangals,
shapeshifters and monsters.Aswang stories and definition very greatly from region to region and person to person, and no particular set of characterisrics can be described to the term. Today aside from entertainment value, Filipino mother's often tell their children aswang stories to keep them off the streets and
keep them home at night. Capiz,in particular, is singled out by tabloidsas an area of high supernatural activity:
a home to aswangs,manaanngals,giant half-horse(tikbalang) and other mythodological creatures. Many of those who live in capiz are supertitiously inclined, and adored their homes with garlic bulbs,holy water, and other objects believed to repel aswang. In Southern Luzon, the city of antipolo is rumored by locals to be popular sightings of aswang especially during the Holy Week (Easter in the philippines) where legend says that paranormal activities are at their peak during the three days that christ was dead. However, several common themes that differentiate aswangs from other mythological creatures do emerge: Aswang are shapeshifters. Stories recount aswangs living as regular townspeople. As regular townspeople, they are quite,shy and elusive. At night, they transform into creatures from rat, pig, bird, and the most common a dog. They enjoy eating unborn children, favoring livers and hearts. They use to suck the childrenout of their mother's wombs,out their homes. Some are so thin, 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 is, an aggressive kind of aswang that makes a soundof a laying henon midnight.
                     Folklore dictates that the fainter the sound, the nearer the mananangal is. This is so confuse the victim. Black cats and crowsw often signal a tik-tik's presence, and deformed faces or bodies. In children are allegedly signs of the aftermath of the tik-tik attack. With th4e Spanish conquest colonization of the Philippines in the 16th century, the tiyanak myth was integrated in Christianity. The tiyanak in the christian version were supposedly the souls of infants that died before being baptized.