Aswang Stories Novels & Stories

Because of my constant cravings for the first two months, Jon and Jana decided to sleep in my house at night just to make sure that I am safe. Even Tata and Nana told me that it is much better if I'll have someone with me inside the house. They said that a pregnant woman alone in a house is way too dangerous, most especially if the aswang can smell my and my baby. Aswang. That's what they call here. It's a mythical creature in the Philippine that turns their body into half every 12:00 in the evenings, and most of their targets are pregnant women. It creeped me out, and I was so paranoid with my baby's safety too so I agreed to if. They're right. It would be more safe if I had someone with me

“All of a sudden, we heard rustling in the bushes and we froze in our tracks. Instinctively, Mathias stepped in front of me and shielded me with his arm. “‘Who goes there?’ Mathias shouted in a voice that was unafraid and full of authority. ‘Reveal yourself to me. I, Prince Vasran of the Varangaos, command you!” “From the undergrowth emerged a horrible creature. It stood on all fours but its rear legs were disproportionately taller than its front, so it held its head low and close to the ground. The fact that it was hairless all over added to its unnatural, scrawny appearance. It had the face of a bat with eyes that glowed red like coals, very large ears and jutting fangs. It was a sigbin.”

"Selene, I fell in love with a human. Something that is forbidden among gods, among us. I had to make a choice, to leave you behind and let you live, or they'd take you away from me either way and terminate you and your father." "What? What do you mean let us live?" " If I left, and came back to my world, the gods would allow to give you and your father an opportunity to live. If I refused to leave you both.... we'd live running our whole lives, as fugitives. They would send aswangs after us. You do know what an aswang is right? It's an evil monster... half vamp-"

They have mostly the preys they salivated that serves as their meals during their transformation phase. Aswang, as what Sir John Dave explained and shown me, were traditionally feral beasts and inherently evil by nature, with no explicable motives beyond harming and devouring other creatures. Their overtly evil behavior has no bias when selecting their prey and will not hesitate to target their own kin. It was with the exception of the matriarch Madame Maida, my mate Allyssa, who was perceived as the strongest of them all, and the seer Iris Meritis for her distinct power to see the past and the future.

"The animals. They're enchanted humans and Aswang – a rival Babaylan cursed them like Circe did Odysseus's men into pigs." "Eduardo. The Mountain Shaman. He's my half-brother and we warred over the throne. When I banned the Ikapati Tribe from eating babies and human blood, and brought back from the University of Manila human protein in plants, he set fire to Aswang Mountain four years ago, and set my servants and palace nest into a cursed sleep. The flying foxes are Aswang, the monkeys are humans, and the half-breeds are the other animals, like tarsiers. They only transform into their human and aswang bodies when the moonlight shines. Otherwise, during the day, we are in a court of ghosts…"