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The Philippines

2 entries in 2 subareas: 2 at grade A. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

Tagalog-speaking areas of central and southern Luzon, which give the name; the western Visayas, on the island of Panay, with the province of Capiz as the epicentre of the reputation

AManananggalthe Philippines — Tagalog-speaking areas of central and southern Luzon, which give the name; the western Visayas, on the island of Panay, with the province of Capiz as the epicentre of the reputation

Visayas, southern Luzon and Mindanao, with a symbolic concentration on the province of Capiz, island of Panay

AAswangthe Philippines — Visayas, southern Luzon and Mindanao, with a symbolic concentration on the province of Capiz, island of Panay

The entries, in brief

The folklore of the Philippines documented in this atlas: Aswang and Manananggal. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (2 at grade A), with the sources it comes from. The 2 subareas are not an administrative division: folklore lives in cultural areas, which rarely coincide with state borders.

Aswang A
The canonical prey is the foetus or the newborn; the secondary victim is the woman in labour. By day the vampiric aswang is an ordinary woman, often beautiful, and by night she reaches the house of the pregnant woman: she feeds…

Manananggal A
It is not a species: it is a type within the aswang category, and that is how it is classed both by the online Filipino dictionary diksiyonaryo.ph — 'aswang na may kakayahang hatiin ang katawan', an aswang able to divide its…

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