Apr 6, 2016
Tiyanak
Oh my God! Ang anak ni Janice!
Described in Tagalog and Bicolano folklore as a small bald-headed goblin with small horns, sharp teeth, pointed ears, bloodshot eyes, and disproportionate legs (the left leg is shorter while the right one is unusually longer), the tiyanak disguises itself as a baby abandoned in the forest or in the field. It wails loudly to attract a passerby and when picked up it sheds its disguise like a snake shedding its old skin, revealing its true form, and kills the victim by biting and mauling. Various speculations on how the tiyanak came to be range from babies born dead in the forest to the Catholic-influenced unbaptized stillborn infants, and later extended to vengeful murdered infants and aborted fetuses.