Growing up my mom would tell us stories about aswangs and manananggals. Manananggals are these women monsters who could separate their bodies and go flying around, at night, looking for pregnant women from whom they could eat their babies through proboscis-like tongues.
The story went that one particular monster flew to an unsuspecting mother-to-be's roof, made a hole through the hut's top and slowly dropped her tongue (growing longer and thinner) until it reached the woman's bellybutton. The woman, however, woke up and saw the elongated tongue, grabbed it and quickly tied a knot to prevent the creature from escaping. The creature was stuck there and could not return to its other half before the sun came up and died.
I was always curious about the other half of her body. Did she leave it just anywhere? What if she needed to pee? What if an animal found it? I was told that if you sprinkle salt on the other half then the creature would die, but who leaves it laying around for another person to find?
The story went that one particular monster flew to an unsuspecting mother-to-be's roof, made a hole through the hut's top and slowly dropped her tongue (growing longer and thinner) until it reached the woman's bellybutton. The woman, however, woke up and saw the elongated tongue, grabbed it and quickly tied a knot to prevent the creature from escaping. The creature was stuck there and could not return to its other half before the sun came up and died.
I was always curious about the other half of her body. Did she leave it just anywhere? What if she needed to pee? What if an animal found it? I was told that if you sprinkle salt on the other half then the creature would die, but who leaves it laying around for another person to find?
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