Bal-Bal

Bal-Bal are evil undead monsters found in the folklore of the Phillippines and are known to steal corpses from noth funerals and gravesites to feed on, making them a variant of ghouls - they are also very similar to the Kasha from Japanese folk tales.

They have keen senses of smell and are atrtacted towards the scent of dead human bodies, which they will attack with sharp claws and teeth - due to eating nothing but corpses it is said to have foul breath and has a tendency to try and trick victims via placing the trunk of a banana tree in a coffin, making them think the body is still within.

Despite being flesh-eaters the Bal-Bal were described to Western continents as vampires, however this is better applied to entities such as the Aswang or Amalanhig - the closest they have to a cousin in native folklore would be the Busaw.