It walks backward, with its head hung between its hind legs. It claps its enormous ears like a hand. And it doesn't drink your blood from your throat. It drinks it from your shadow.
This week we're headed to the Visayas and Mindanao in the Philippines, for the legend of the Sigbin. It's a goat-like creature with a whip-like tail, a nauseating stench, and the power to vanish in front of you. We dig into the families said to keep Sigbin in clay jars, the link to the aswang, the folk logic behind staying out of the moonlight, and the theory that this monster is really a kangaroo. Before all that, there's a story set in a quiet Samar village, where a young surveyor home for a job hears clapping in the night and goes out to look.
Keep your lamp lit, and don't go looking for the sound.
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