heart-extraction

Manananggal · salience 0.9

“This proboscis-like appendage allows the creature to suck the hearts of fetuses directly from their mothers' wombs.”

Tlatecuhtli · salience 0.65

“The torn being continues to cry out at night, and the gods answer the lament by decreeing that trees, flowers, and grasses will grow from its body to console it, and that it will afterward be given human blood and hearts through sacrifice — the ritual origin the tradition assigns to the earth's ongoing hunger.”