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Viscera Aswang
Creature Type: Aswang Variant / Organ Feeder
Threat Level: High
Common Targets: Pregnant women, infants, sick people, injured hunters, and anyone recovering from deep wounds or surgery.
Main Danger: It feeds from the inside out.
Basic Description
A Viscera Aswang is a dangerous Filipino folklore-based creature that feeds on blood, organs, sickness, and unborn life. It is related to the wider aswang family of monsters, but this specific type is known for targeting the body’s softest and most vulnerable places.
By day, it can look completely human. It may live as a neighbor, nurse, relative, midwife, traveler, or quiet stranger no one thinks twice about. That is part of what makes it so dangerous. It does not always look like a monster until it is already hunting.
By night, the creature changes. Some versions split apart at the waist, leaving the lower half of the body hidden somewhere safe while the upper half goes out to feed. Others stay whole but become more obviously monstrous: sharp teeth, clawed hands, strange eyes, a long tongue, and a smell like old blood, sour fruit, and sickness.
What It Eats
A Viscera Aswang feeds on the inside of the body. It is drawn to organs, blood, womb tissue, infection, and life that is already fragile. This makes pregnant people, babies, sick patients, and wounded hunters especially vulnerable.
It does not always leave a messy body behind. Sometimes its attacks look like illness, miscarriage, infection, organ failure, or bad luck. That is why these cases are so easy for normal doctors and careless hunters to miss.
Signs of a Viscera Aswang
- Unexplained miscarriages in the same area.
- Sick people getting worse overnight with no clear cause.
- Small puncture marks near the mouth, stomach, navel, ears, or old wounds.
- Internal bleeding without obvious injuries.
- Scratches on roofs, windows, vents, or attic entrances.
- A sour, coppery smell near windows or sickrooms.
- Witnesses reporting wings, clicking sounds, or something moving outside at night.
- A person in town who is never seen after dark.
- A hidden lower body, shed skin, nest, or locked room the creature protects.
Weaknesses
- Salt
- Ash
- Vinegar
- Blessed iron
- Fire
- Sunlight
- Protective wards
- Destroying or blocking the lower body if the creature separates
If the Viscera Aswang is the kind that separates from its lower half, the lower body is its biggest weakness. If hunters can find it, salt it, burn it, or keep the upper half from returning before sunrise, the creature becomes much easier to kill.
How to Kill It
The safest way to kill a Viscera Aswang depends on the type.
If it separates from its lower body, hunters should find the hidden lower half first. Covering it with salt, ash, vinegar, or blessed substances can stop the creature from reattaching before dawn. Once it is weakened, it can be killed with blessed iron, fire, or beheading.
If it does not separate, hunters have to trap it, ward the area, and destroy the heart or feeding organs. These versions are harder to kill because they do not have the obvious lower-body weakness.
Important: Never assume there is only one. Some Viscera Aswang come from family lines, which means killing one may reveal others nearby.
Hawthorne House Protocol
If Hawthorne House suspects a Viscera Aswang is nearby, the clinic goes into lockdown.
- Pregnant patients, infants, sick children, and wounded hunters are moved away from windows.
- All windows, vents, chimneys, attic doors, and cellar entrances are salted and warded.
- No one sleeps alone between midnight and dawn.
- No one opens a window after sunset.
- No one follows a familiar voice outside.
- All food and gifts from outside are checked before anyone touches them.
- Maia reviews all medical charts for strange overnight decline.
- Zachary checks the lore and identifies the exact variant.
- Dean and Sam search for the nest, hidden body, or human identity.
- Dahlia keeps patients calm, organized, hydrated, and away from making deeply stupid choices.
Maia’s Medical Notes
Maia hates Viscera Aswang cases because they can look medical at first. The wounds are often hidden inside the body, which means a victim may seem sick instead of attacked.
Possible symptoms include sudden blood loss, organ failure, miscarriage, severe anemia, infected puncture wounds, breathing trouble, fever, shock, and nightmares after the attack.
Her rule is simple: if the medical facts do not make sense, stop pretending they do. Sometimes the diagnosis has teeth.
Zachary’s Lore Notes
Zachary is very clear that hunters should not treat every aswang like the same monster. “Aswang” is a broad term, not one single creature. Some drink blood. Some eat flesh. Some shapeshift. Some curse families. Some separate from their bodies. Some feed from the inside out.
Calling every Filipino monster an aswang and stopping there is lazy research. Lazy research gets people killed.
Zachary’s rule is simple: learn the culture, learn the feeding pattern, learn the weakness, then hunt. In that order.
Simple Reader Summary
A Viscera Aswang is basically an organ-feeding aswang variant that hunts vulnerable bodies. It can look human during the day and monstrous at night. It targets pregnant people, babies, sick patients, and wounded hunters. Some versions split in half and hide their lower body while hunting. Find the lower body, salt it, burn it, or keep the creature from rejoining before sunrise.
In short: if something is flying around at night trying to drink organs through a window, close the window, salt the room, and maybe stop saying, “It’s probably nothing.” It is absolutely something.