Aswang Poriginal ink 2024 painting

Original ink painting featuring an Aswang, from Philipino mythology.

The painting measures 23x35 cm or 9.5x13.7 inch.

Itwill be sent in a protective sleeve with registered email. The price includes shipping per UPS. Tracking number will be provided.

Painted on professional ink paper

Aswang
Aswangs are mythical creature of the Philippine folklore and are typically described as shape-shifters. Stories recount aswangs living as regular townspeople that are quiet, shy and elusive. At night, they transform into creatures such as a bat, bird (usually a crow), wild boar, black cat, or most often, a big black dog.
They love to eat cadavers, unborn fetuses and small children, favoring livers and hearts. They are fast and silent. Some also make noises, which are louder the farther away the aswang is, to confuse its potential victim; and the Bubuu, an aggressive kind of aswang that makes a sound of a laying hen at midnight. An aswang will also have bloodshot eyes, the result of staying up all night searching for houses where wakes are held to steal the bodies.
Aswangs are physically much more like humans at daytime; they only change their appearance at night when they feel they are hungry. It has been said that if an aswang married a human, upon their wedding, his or her mate would become an aswang as well but rarely can they reproduce. The 2024 couple may hunt together at night but will most often go in separate directions, either to avoid quick detection or because they do not like to share their food.