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Manananggal: The Baby Eater…
The beast who feasts on the flesh of babies
When I lived in the Philippines a decade ago I was attacked by a Manananggal. What is a Manananggal you ask? It is the scariest of all Filipino monsters and I will explain what it is as I tell my tale.
When I was a teenager I fell in love with a man and we became very close as you might imagine one thing lead to another and I became pregnant.
My family is devoted Roman Catholic and would not accept a pregnancy outside of wedlock. My father was so angry, I had never seen him that mad before, he screamed at me, told me I was a fool and that I was an embarrassment to the family.
With that I was cast out of my home, my family disowned me and suddenly I was all alone. The only thing I could do was to go to the home of my boyfriend and ask them to take me in.
This didn’t go well, his mother attacked me with a large knife and sliced my stomach deep, she tried to kill the unborn baby in my belly.
I fled from their home into the jungle, I wandered through it for days feeling hungry and scared. There was an ugly old woman sitting by a river and she looked at me when I approached, sniffing the air like a dog she then asked me:
“Are you o.k? You look hungry, do you want some food if…
