Early this morning, Maw scolded Bugsy for chasing Pimon, the old timer. Bugsy, the sensitive one, sulked inside the cage and wouldn’t come out to play. So Maw had to talk him out of his time alone. But it took a few tries with Bugsy turning his back to Maw each time. Bugsy appears to understand. And my parents and I were wondering if he had the spirit of a person.
Then Paw started telling a story about a pati-anak, a monster baby, which made the sound `Oh-wah! Oh-wah!`. He believes he might have seen a pati-anak in the form of a big parrot, which we thought might be a macaw, a cockatrice or a cockatoo.
I don’t know which version Paw remembered but that sound was made either when his brother, `Gigolo`, was born or during a miscarriage. When there was lots of blood during a birthing the pati-anak would sound its call. I say it’s a vampire of some sort.
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