Aswang caught eating human baby flesh butchered at the river bank in a pestilence ravaged village

From the oral account of William Cahanding, Negros Occidental.

I am a  local militia man belongs to CHDF. One of our duty is to monitor the movement of the rebels in the remote area of the town.

We were tasked to observed the river bank where the rebel usually crossed in going to the mountain.
That afternoon, together with my buddy, climbed a tall naga tree few meters away from the bank of the river.
Above the tree we hide among the dense leaves at the topmost part. We have a good view of the sandy beach of the riverbank. We can monitor whoever passed by the river.

As dusk fell down, I saw man carrying a sack. Then he looked around and found no one is around, he opened the sack. And to our surprise a corpse of a naked baby boy emerged. It was covered with mud.

We  immediately declared that the man is an aswang.
Then he washed the body of the baby in the flowing water. He put it in the sandy shore and then  took out his knife and slit open the belly. Blood came out and he licked it.  Then the aswang took out the liver and bite on it. Then he chew it as if savoring it before he put it on the sack.

I am  revolting in what I had witnessed and hatred  erupted on me. I took my Garand gun and aimed at him.
Then I shot the man on the leg. He was hit but he could see no one. He grabbed the baby, put it on the sack and run toward the tall grasses and  was lost from our sight.

The next day I was informed that a man who lived on the nearby village, was crippled by a gunshot and they suspected that he was mistaken for a rebel and was shot by the militia. We just kept quite on what we have know about the man.