the PUGOT of Ilocos — headless and it eats SNAKES from the neck

Tagalog folks always talk aswang and manananggal pero up north sa Ilocos may sarili kaming bogeyman. Pugot. Means decapitated one. Big black headless figure, super tall, tago sa madilim na lugar at abandoned houses. The detail na hindi ko makalimutan from my grandfather: it eats by shoving food into……