When CBC Books asked Leyson about the inspiration behind Glossary for an Aswang, they said: "I was inspired by research I conducted around Filipino overseas workers." You can read Glossary for an ...

Aswang Review. Aswang (2019) Film Review from the 74th Annual Locarno Film Festival, a documentary written and directed by Alyx Ayn Arumpac.

As a field guide to aswang lore, the book taught me how to identify and defeat such creatures. It also taught me to appreciate things outside my Kapampangan-Tagalog household: What was a mangkukulam ...

Last week, I stayed in the 432-year-old Hotel zum Ritter St. Georg in Heidelberg. I chose the hotel for its age and the fact that its façade is one of the tourist attractions Rizal saw during his ...

Amador Brioso Jr., a writer and regular reader of this column, whose latest book is about the late Manila Mayor Arsenio H. Lacson, plans to write about aswang in his next book. For this reason, he ...

The title of the harrowing documentary, "Aswang," refers to the myth of "a shapeshifter that preys on humans and kills anyone who dares to look back." It is a fitting metaphor for Rodrigo Duterte ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Philippine American Writers and Artists and the Philippine Consulate are hosting a presentation called “To Love As Aswang: Songs, Fragments & Found Objects” by Filipino ...

It was an aswang survival guide that provided detailed instructions on how to detect, catch, and neutralize aswang. He also published “The Aswang Syncrasy in Philippine Folklore” (1969). The material ...