In the house she found pieces of meat hanging from the ceiling. She began to eat a little of the meat, until she found a piece of liver that she devoured hungrily.

After that, she found herself strangely changed. She jumped out of the window and flew back through the sky to her own house. There she heard her little daughter crying. She rushed to the cradle, seized her child, and, in a range of hunger, devoured the infant. The woman had totally forgotten that this was her own baby.

Having satisfied her blood craving, the woman flew back to the forest and rejoined her husband. The asuangs now disguised themselves as normal people and settled in a nearby village. There, they preyed on local children and devoured unwary youngsters who wandered astray.

As their children disappeared one by one, the villagers grew suspicious of their new neighbors. The people noticed that the newcomers never appeared to sleep. The villagers knew that asuangs could make themselves invisible and were wary foes, but they also realized that if an asuang were caught unawares its tigerlike canine teeth and claws could be observed.

The villagers knew that at night asuangs must leave the lower halves of their bodies behind, as only the top halves fly away on their evil business. So, if a human can find the lower part of the asuang unattended, then he must act quickly and place ashes on it. If this is done, then the top and bottom cannot be rejoined and, by daylight, the evil spirit will be rendered helpless. So it was that the villagers, having discovered the secret identity of the outsiders in their midst, were able to trap the asuangs and put an end to their evil.

                                                                                                                 - J.K.

Three Mysterious Sisters

One day, a government ship called at Kapis harbor. The captain and his crew were billeted in private houses in town. That evening, they were invited to supper by one of the town’s most prominent families. But during the meal the seamen noticed that their forks were decorated with little ornamental human skulls. So, after the meal, the captain warned his sailors that at least one of the men should stay awake all night, lest they all die.