Citations:secretes


 * 1967–1968, Richard Lieban, quoted in John P. McAndrew, People of Power: A Philippine Worldview of Spirit Encounters (Ateneo de Manila University Press; 2001; ISBN 9789715503815, page 92 :
 * Various names are given to the aswang, depending on his behavior or the particular form in which he appears. He is called a kaskas or wakwak when he makes those sounds. As a balbal, he preys particularly on sick people because their spirits are most vulnerable at that time. He secretes himself under the house, directly beneath the patient. He particularly likes to feed on human liver, which he attacks invisibly; or, also unseen, he sucks the blood of the patient. The aswang may fly without changing himself into a bird, with only his head and intestines aloft, and the rest of his body left behind. In this form he is called a manananggal. Or he may transform himself into a small, fierce bird, called a kiki.