MANTIYANAK
MANTIYANAK is a Cebuano word. In English, it means...
mantiyának n supernatural being which preys on newborn in-fants.
It drinks the blood from childbirth and tries to get at the newborn babys liver.
If the baby dies, he drinks the mothers milk without her knowledge and kills her thereby.
It is pictured the size of a baby, with horns and fangs, with long pointed ears, dirty brown in color and angular in features.
It has the ability to walk, change its appearance, and make itself invisible.
It drinks the blood from childbirth and tries to get at the newborn babys liver.
If the baby dies, he drinks the mothers milk without her knowledge and kills her thereby.
It is pictured the size of a baby, with horns and fangs, with long pointed ears, dirty brown in color and angular in features.
It has the ability to walk, change its appearance, and make itself invisible.