Mandurugo
{{Short description|Mythical being from Philippine folklore}}
The Mandurugo is a mythical being from Philippine folklore, similar to a harpy-vampire variant of Aswang (Filipino shapeshifter). The Mandurugo drinks blood similar to a vampire.{{Cite web |last=Clark |first=Jordan |date=2016-02-22 |title=A Compendium of Creatures from Philippine Folklore & Mythology • THE ASWANG PROJECT |url=https://www.aswangproject.com/creatures-mythical-beings-philippine-folklore-mythology/ |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=THE ASWANG PROJECT |language=en-US}} They are usually young and beautiful women by day, but develop wings and long, sharp tongues by night, which they use to either make cuts in a man's neck, or prick the inside of his mouth while kissing him to obtain blood. The stories, popular to Tagalog and Bicol speakers, have many variations.{{Cite journal|last=PERTIERRA|first=RAUL|date=1983|title=Viscera-Suckers and Female Sociality: The Philippine Asuang|jstor=42633556|journal=Philippine Studies|volume=31|issue=3|pages=319–337}} Sometimes the Mandurugo marries unsuspecting men to prey upon them,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=njDRfG6YVb8C&q=Mandurugo&pg=PA59|title=Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures|last=Bane|first=Theresa|date=2012-01-09|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786488940|language=en}} or may just select one husband, using him as a cover for her blood drinking activities, flying to other villages to feed.{{Cite journal|last=Ramos|first=Maximo|date=1969|title=The Aswang Syncrasy in Philippine Folklore|jstor=1499218|journal=Western Folklore|volume=28|issue=4|pages=238–248|doi=10.2307/1499218}}
Legend
"The Girl With Many Loves" is one popular tale. A young, beautiful woman marries at age sixteen. Her husband, described as an over-weight youth, withers away to bones in less than a year. After he dies, the woman marries again and again with the same result, until she reaches her fourth husband. The fourth husband, fearing the same fate as his predecessors, is afraid to sleep at night and holds a knife in his hand. A little after midnight, the man feels something over him and then a prick on his neck. He stabs at the creature on top of him and hears a loud screech and the flapping of wings. The next day, his wife is found dead not far from the house with a knife wound in her chest.{{cite book|url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=KzSBAAAAMAAJ}}|title=Creatures of Philippine lower mythology|last=Ramos|first=Maximo D.|publisher=Phoenix Pub. House|year=1990}}
Films
In post World War II Philippines, vampirism was a hot topic. The Roman Catholic Church had a major influence on the film industry all over the globe. Films such as The Vampire People (1966) were the product of vampire folklore and mainstream culture.{{cite book|url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=lqnRt8K4WnQC}}|title=In the Midst of Wars: An American's Mission to Southeast Asia|last=Lansdale|first=Edward Geary|publisher=Fordham Univ Press|year=1991|isbn=978-0-8232-1314-6}}
Anime
In Blade (ブレイド, Bureido) is a 2010 Japanese superhero anime television series by Madhouse and is based on the Marvel Comics universe. Features the Mandurugo as beautiful maidens that transform into harpy-like aswangs that take flight, more accurate of how they are portrayed in Philippine mythology{{Cite web |title=ブレイド {{!}} ソニー・ピクチャーズ公式 |url=https://www.sonypictures.jp/he/951518 |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=ブレイド {{!}} ソニー・ピクチャーズ公式 |language=ja}}