Sigbin
The sigbin is a goat-like night creature of Philippine folklore, said to drink blood from its victims' shadows. A Facebook video said to show one caught in Surigao City was rated false by Rappler in 2020.
Wikipedia describes the sigbin as a creature that hunts after dark, drinking blood from its victims' shadows. It walks backwards with its head held low between its hind legs and can make itself invisible, especially to people. It looks like a goat without horns, with very large ears it can clap together and a long tail it uses as a whip, and it gives off a sickening smell.
Yvette Tan, writing for CNN Philippines in 2017, placed it in the Visayas and described it as a blood-drinking mix of dog and kangaroo. She wrote that it is strongest on Good Friday, when it hunts young children's hearts to make into amulets, and called sigbin aswang familiars. Tan suggested the belief may be a folk reading of an actual animal, perhaps the cat-fox. A 2019 Rappler opinion piece on Derain's book May Tiktik sa Bubong, May Sigbin sa Silong describes the sigbin as the goat-like servant the aswang sends out to find food.
In 2020 Rappler checked a video shared on Facebook that claimed to show a sigbin caught in Surigao City, and rated the claim false.
"The Sigbin or Sigben is a creature in Philippine mythology said to come out at night to suck the blood of victims from their shadows. It is said to walk backwards with its head lowered between its hind legs, and to have the ability to become invisible to other creatures, especially humans. It resembles a hornless goat, but has very large ears which it can clap like a pair of hands and a long, flexible tail that can be used as a whip.[1] The sigbin is said to emit a nauseating odor."
- FALSE: 'Sigbin' caught in Surigao City, Pauline Macaraeg, Rappler (2020)
- [OPINION] Aswang: A strange new energy, Rappler (2019)
- The bloodthirsty aswangs of Philippine mythology, Yvette Tan, CNN Philippines (2017), via Wayback Machine