Mananangal

Mananangal (Manananggal translates from Tagalog roughly as "dividing") — a mythological creature in the Philippines that is identified with a wakwak.

The creature is similar to a Western vampire: it is vicious and eats people. The legend is common in the Visayas, especially in the provinces Kapis, Iloilo and Antique.

Mananangals are afraid of salt, avoid daggers, light, vinegar, spices and a whip from the tail of a stingray.

They are described as disgusting vampire-like creatures, usually female. It is believed that at night mananangals split in half, release webbed wings from their shoulders and fly away in search of victims, leaving the lower half standing on the ground. With the help of a proboscis-like tongue, they suck the blood of sleeping people.The lower part is defenseless at this time.

Most of all, the vampire likes to sneak into the bedrooms of pregnant women and use his trunk to get to the fetus, which eats the heart.

You can kill mananangal by pouring salt, crushed garlic or ashes on the separated lower half.

The appearance of these monsters is described differently in different regions. According to one legend, the power of mananangal is given by a black chicken in the throat, according to another, you can turn into mananangal by tasting the saliva of old mananangal with food. According to the third legend, the girl who later became mananangal confesses to her friend that she wants to taste the sputum of sick people.