Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-3125844-20140214200347/@comment-24158541-20140304221622

T0311 wrote: I dont want to be wikipedia smart but it says the aswang is a ghoulis were-dog whith vampiric traits (this one matches) i though the word aswang refers to all monsters of the Philipines folklore but itss completley diffrent from Mananangal the waist spliting monster.

Second were did you guys get the philipino idea?

The writers said that the episode is going to be based on the monster in Filipino folklore, the aswang. Aswang and Mananangal are used interchangeably. Yes, you are partially right, the Aswang can be depicted as a ghoulish dog OR the most common one which I was told at young age was the waist splitting monster. Even to this day people would say Aswang rather than mananangal when telling these stories. Aswang can also be used to refer to all monsters, but the most well known use of this term, would be the baby, human eating entrail monster.