6. Silagan - are witches specific in
Catanduanes, an island province located
in the Bicol region in Luzon who preys on
anyone dressed in white by tearing out
the liver and devouring it causing the
victim's death. The name means "the
hated one".
7. Magtatangal - is another kind of witch
that separates her head from the body
and appears at night similar to many
mythological dark creatures across
Southeast Asia such as the 'Kasu' of Laos
and 'Ap' in Cambodia, Thailand's
'Krasue', 'Leyak' from Indonesia and
more closely to 'Penanggal' in Malaysia. It
is believed that the Devil carries the head
to different places at night and returns it
before morning, fully alive. At present, it
is known as the creature called
Manananggal, a detached female torso
with huge talons preying on pregnant
women using an elongated proboscis-like
tongue. As it flies, it's entrails dangle
below.

California-based folklorist Hermenia
Meñez in her 1991 paper titled, “The
Viscera-Sucker and the Politics of
Gender” states that the
'Manananggal'(self-segmenting viscera
sucker) is "rarely known in upland
Northern Luzon. More importantly,
among these animists and their
counterparts in the rest of the islands in
Southeast Asia, the viscera sucker is not
gendered and usually appears as a bird
or a dog.” Two of the animals considered
as the western witches' familiars.
the manananggal
the manananggal
8. Osuang - is a sorcerer that can fly and
eat people and probably the most feared
monster in Filipino folklore known in
modern times as Aswang usually
possessing a combination of the traits of
either a vampire, a viscera sucker, a
ghoul, a witch, or different species of
werebeast, or even all of them together.
There are various theories as to the
origins of the term, one links it back to
the ancient Bicolano diety known as
Asuang: an evil god who stole the sacred
fire of Mount Mayon from his brother
Gugurang which sounds a lot like the
myth of Prometheus in ancient Greek. He
dwells inside Mount Malinao and would
cause the people to suffer misfortunes
and commit sins. He was a friend to the
moon god Bulan, which is why he is
considered nocturnal.
The Spaniards also used the aswang
myth to suppress political dissent. During
those times, a lot of upheavals happened
in the town of Capiz. Women led these
attacks, usually at night, because they
had no modern weapons. The Spaniards
then told the natives that the women
were evil, that they performed magical
acts, and that these women were
aswang. The natives avoided these
women so they had no one to join their
cause.
Some historians claim that the
origination of the word "Aswang" comes
from "aso-wang", because most of the
alleged form of this dark creature is a
dog. 'Aso' is a tagalog word for dog, also
connected to the Greek goddess of the
witches, Hecate. But in Mindanao, the
asuang (and similar beings) exist among
many of the animist tribes, which had
virtually no Catholic influence, yet did
have influence from the Indianized areas.

