Kasangkapan:
Palang- gagamitan yang panauling balas kayaring asambut ing awsang
Iquing Pagi- gagamitan yang pangontra karing aswang. Makapag pasakit karela.
Kalamunding- anti yang aguimat para e raka akwang asulapo babo reng awsang. Mabayat ya iti para karela.
Abu- bububud ya king kapitna nang katawan a melakwan ning aswang. Eya magsilbing mipakat pasibayu ing kaputut nang katawan ustung atin yang abu ing kapitna na.
Sambung- magagamit ya ining tanaman a iti pangontrang aswang. Masanting a managtal kaniti at ibili king kekang bulsa
Bawang- e ra apibata reng aswang ing bawu ning bawang. Masanting nung atin kang pane darala.
Asin- gagamitan yang anti king abu. Malyari ya namang ibiling pangontra karing miyaliwang lugal.
Aguimat- banal a bage. Maragul la saup reng agua bendita ampong anting-anting pangontra karing engkantu. Mangutang pamu karing pari bayu gumamit.
Ritwal:
Marakap ya ing aswang king pamanyamas atlung(3) batung maragul a makapadurut, balamu pipaglutwan. Panga inawus na ne ning “kak kak” ing aswang, pangadyan ing pangadi da reng apostol.ustung miras na ing dakeng pangapaku nang Cristo king kurus, pulutan ing metung kareng batu at mipakung metung a paku king gabun. Datang ya ing awsang at mapun karing atlung batu. Malyari ne iting patayan.
Ating metung a ritwal nung nokarin malyari yang mayangu ing sumpa ning panga aswang, king pamaninum ning danum a miki kalamunding at ibitin yang makatiwarik. King paralang ayni sumuka lang anti mong ayup a lalang a kailangan pamiraswan.
Paganaka:
Gamitan ing agimat pangontra karing karelang banis. Pamaguran ye king iquing pagi ing aswang angga king mangayna ya, saka ye pututan buntuk king palang.
Malyari yang mabalu ing kulam ning aswang king awsan dang “egg ritual” king norakin ustung menakit lang mata ampong daya king ebun, buring sabyan meyaswang ya ing metung a tau.
Mabalu ya ing ilusyun king pamangan ustung mipusutan yang kalamunding. Malyaring ing sigang magi yang taliri ning tau ampong daya.
Ing kulam ning aswang malyari yang ibalik kaya anti mong iya ing manasakit ustung penasakitan ya ing taung kayang kinulam.
Ring mekalap a kapabaluang a reti la mangabaldugan king king ustung pamandakap awsang, dakal pa miwawaliwang paralan ampo riwal laban kareng kaniting lalang.
Makyabe ya sa keka ing agape ning Guinu.
Luid tamu ngan.
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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Kapampangan, Pampango, or the Pampangan language is a major Philippine language. It is primarily spoken in the province of Pampanga, southern Tarlac, and northeastern Bataan. Kapampangan is also spoken in some municipalities of Bulacan and Nueva Ecija, by various Aeta groups of Central Luzon, and in scattered communities within the SOCCSKSARGEN region in Mindanao. The language is known honorifically as Amánung Sísuan (“breastfed, or nurtured, language”)
Written by Karl Gaverza
Copyright © Karl Gaverza
Inspired by various Aswang legends
Aswang Illustration by Patricia Ramos
FB: The Art of Patricia Ramos