*Note this story is in Bicol-Legazpi
Mga gagamiton:
Sundang – Ginagamit ini para maitao an pinal na atake pagkatapos makadakop nin aswang.
Ikòg-pagì – Ini ginagamit tanganing an aswang dai makahiro. Nagdadara ini nin sobrang kulog pag ini nakatama sa sainda.
Suwa – Sarong pangontra tanganing makasigurong dai ka masasaklot. Ini nakapagabat sa sarong tawo.
Abo – Ginagamit para ibudbud sa kabanga kan lawas kan aswang en kaso ini magbanga sa duwa. Sinda dai makakasulit sa kabanga nindang lawas kun ini nabubudbudan na nin abo.
Gabon/Sambong/Bukadkad/Subsob/Lakad-Bulan(Blumea Balsamefera) – Ang tinanom na ini ginagamit man na pangontra sa aswang. Magpudo nin bagong dahon kaini asin ilaag sa saindong mga bulsa.
Bawang – An parong kaini dai kayang tagalon nin mga aswang. Magdara kaini sa gabos na oras.
Asin – An gamit kaini parehas kan paggamit sa abo. Puwede man ining gamiton tanganing proteksyonan an mga lugar na puwedeng tuyuhun o dumanun nin mga aswang.
Mga Pangontra – Mga benditadong gamit, holy water asin mga anting-anting, gabos ini epektibong pangontra sa mga aswang asin iba pang nilalang nin kadikluman. Marhay na makipaghilingan muna sa padi bago an gabos.
An mga ritwal:
An aswang o asbo pupuwedeng madakop sa pagpakarhay nin tulong dakulang gapo. Ini gibuhun na pabilog arog kan piglulutuan. Pag namati na an ‘kak kak’ kaini, magpangadyi kan Minatubod. Oras na makaabot duman sa parte kan pangadyi kun sain ipinako na sa krus si Kristo, magkua nin saro sa mga gapo asin ini gamiton pamukmok sa sarong pako diretso sa daga. An aswang iyo mabulosok paibaba asin matugdon sa tulong gapo kun sain puwede na ining gadanon.
An sumpa kan pagiging aswang puwedeng mahali sa sarong tawo. Ini sa paagi kan ritwal na kinakaipuhan nin dayap asin tubig. Ini iinomun asin an nag-inom kaipohan bitayon nin pabaliktad tanganing maisùka ninda an garo bayong na nilalang. Pag ini nailuwa na, kaipohan ining gadanon asin piridasohun.
Pagiromdom:
Gamiton an mga pangontra tanganing an mga aswang dai makagamit kan saindang mga orasyon. Gamiton an ikòg-pagì tanganing dai sinda makahiro dangan tigbason an saindang payo gamit an sundang.
Makukumpirma kun an tawo ‘inaswang’ sa paggibo kan ‘ritwal sa bunay’. Sa ritwal na ini, pag nahiling an markang garo mata asin dugo sa bunay iyo an patotoo na pig-aasawang an sarong tawo.
An mga ilusyon sa pagkaun puwedeng mahali kun ini papagaan nin suwa. An isira arog kan sinigang, magiging mangkò na pano nin murò asin dugo nin tawo.
Puwedeng mag-tablada sa aswang an saiyang gibo. Ini kun lalatiguhun o makulugan sa lawas sa anoman na paagi ang saiyang inaswang, siya an makakamati kan kulog kaini.
An listahan na ini bako halaba asin en punto sa kun pano magdakop nin aswang. Kadakul man na iba pang mga ritwal asin pangontra an pupuwedeng gamiton panlaban sa mga nilalang nin kadikluman.
Bantayan man lugod nin Kagurangnan an saimong paglakaw.
Dios Mabalos.
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English Version
Equipment:
Bolo – used to give a final blow after incapacitating the aswang.
Stingray Tail – used to incapacitate the aswang. Causes great pain to them.
Kalamansi – A ward to ensure that the aswang cannot pick you up. It weighs them down.
Ashes – Used to sprinkle on the aswang’s body if they self-segment. Aswang cannot reattach if ashes are scattered on their other half.
Gabon/Sambong/Bukadkad/Subsob (Blumea Balsamefera) – This plant is used to ward off aswang. Pick it fresh and keep it in your pocket.
Garlic – Aswang cannot stand the smell of garlic. Keep some with you at all times.
Salt – Used in the same way as ashes. Can also be used to ward certain places away from aswang.
Wards – Blessed objects, holy water anting-anting are all useful to keep away the monsters. Make sure to see a priest beforehand.
Rituals:
Aswang be captured by arranging 3 big stones in a circle, like a stove, once the ‘kak kak’ call of the creature comes, recite the Apostle’s Creed. Once you reach the part of the creed about the nailing of Christ to the cross, pick up one of the stones and drive a nail into the ground. The creature will come down and perch on the three stones, where it can be killed.
There is a ritual in which the curse of being an aswang can be lifted, it involves drinking lemon and water, being hung upside down so that they will vomit a bird-like creature which has to be cut into pieces.
Reminders:
Use the wards to stop their spells. Incapacitate them with the pain from the stingray tail then cut their heads off with a final blow from the bolo.
Curses by aswag can be confirmed by performing the ‘egg ritual’ in which if eye marks and blood are seen in the egg that means the person was ‘inaswang’ (bewitched).
Illusions on food can be dispelled by squeezing calamansi over them. Dishes such as sinigang will turn into bowls filled with human fingers and blood.
Curses by aswang can go both ways so if the victim is whipped or injured in any physical way, the aswang will be the one that feels it.
This list is by no means extensive on how to hunt the creature. There are many other rituals and wards used to fight off these monsters.
May the Lord guide your path.
Godspeed.
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The Bikol languages or Bicolano languages are a group of Central Philippine languages spoken mostly in the Bicol Peninsula in the island of Luzon, the neighboring island province of Catanduanes and the island of Burias in Masbate. There is a dialect continuum between the Visayan languages and the Bikol languages; the two together are called the Bisakol languages.
The Tabaco-Legazpi-Sorsogon (TLS) dialect is spoken in the eastern coast of Albay and the northeastern part of Sorsogon. TLS is the dialect that has been most influenced by the Inland Bikol languages.
Written by Karl Gaverza
Translation by Wella Guianan
Copyright © Karl Gaverza
Translation Copyright © Wella Guianan
Inspired by various Aswang legends
Aswang Illustration by Patricia Ramos
FB: The Art of Patricia Ramos