Sunday, January 19, 2014

Region XI - The Legend of Maria Labo



There was a young woman named Maria who went to Canada to be a caregiver.

Before she went abroad, she taken care of an elder man who have the cursed called "aswang" .   When the old man died, he passed his cursed to Maria.

Finding no luck in Canada, Maria went home.  One night, when her husband a policeman went home. He was looking for their kids and he finds Maria eat their children.

Enraged, her husband struck her with a bolo ("labo") where she obtained a scar on her face, so they called her a Maria Labo.

She fled to Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, to feed her hunger for human flesh and viscera. Like a typical aswang, she has the ability to change her appearance.  She become a beautiful woman at other times, she appears as an old woman. 

An "aswang" called Maria Labo...





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