"Ek. Ek. Ek."
This strange sound wakes you. Blinking, you turn to check on your wife.
"Ek. Ek. Ek."
A horrified cry lodges in your throat. You're paralyzed by the gruesome sight.
The humanoid creature has invaded your wife's body.
"Ek. Ek. Ek."
It has taken the most precious from you as she sleeps. It has killed your unborn child.
This dark, vampiric creature comes from the Philippines. It has it's origins from the Visayan culture, which is located on the southern end of the archipelago. The Ekek is similar to the Wak Wak and the Manananggal. They all crave flesh and blood especially from pregnant women.
The Ekek is described as being a bird like human. They have wings and a long proboscis into the woman and to the womb to drain the blood from the fetus. (think something like elephant nose or butterfly's nectar sucker! le ick!)
They are shape shifters and have the ability to transform into bat or bird at night to prowl for prey.
Their name comes from the sound they make as they suck the blood. Ek Ek Ek.
Wak Waks are said not to have a beak like Ekeks, and manananggals are said to have the ability to split themselves.
In any case, they are all vampiric ghoulish creatures that have similarities to European vampires, which could come from when the Phillipines was colonized.
Freaky! I haven't heard of an Ekek, very interesting post, even if it did make me cringe slightly :)
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it made me cringe as well. and that's why i have the warning in the title of this one.
ReplyDeleteI feel like Stephen King needs to swing by here and take notes, haha! Ick!
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It is the sort of creature you would find in a horror film or book. I agree mr. King would probably have a field day with this.
DeleteA very, very nasty critter! I wonder what spawned the legend. Pregnancy and childbirth are already a dangerous time for a woman, so of course, someone had to make it even more dangerous.
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Maybe it was a way to explain miscarriages?
DeleteEr Yuk! Not a nice beasty at all! I suppose they need some way to explain why a woman may appear to be totally healthy and yet she loses a child.
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i think so too.
DeleteUgh. There really are some nasty stories floating around out there. This would make a gruesome movie (not one that I would watch, mind you).
ReplyDeletei wouldn't watch it either. It's right up there with kruger and michael meyers on my never-watching-them list.
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