Asema, Aseman, Aziman

Asema is a vampiric witch from the land of Suriname that usually takes the appearance of an older man or women and its toes are believed to be pointed downward.

The Asema shed its skin during the night, fold it properly and hide it well.  When the creature was sure that the skin is hidden on a safe place, Asema would proceed on his hunting trip.  It changes into a ball of light but compared to the other vampiric creature that transform into a fire ball the flame of the Asema is colored blue similar to the corpse candle.  While in a form of a fireball, the Asema has now the ability to enter small cracks and opening of the house.  It seems that the Asema has the ability to tell the taste of blood without tasting it since he tends to avoid people who have a bitter blood.

Once the Asema found a worthy victim, he will return every night feeding on him.  The victim of Asema does not instantly die, they gradually weakens and eventually die due to the consecutive attack of the Asema.  An attack of the Asema could be identified through the red and blue marks presence on the victim.

One way to prevent the creature from attacking you is to consume herbs regularly especially those that can make your blood taste bitter like garlic.  You can also spread sesame seeds in front of your doorway since the Asema would be forced to count every seed before proceeding on attacking his victim.  You can also mix talons to the sesame seeds; every time that the Asema would pick up a talon he will be annoyed and drop the seeds that he already counted thus he is again compelled to start the process over again.  One also has to make sure that there are enough talons and sesame seeds on your doorstep that would last until daybreak.  Asema is known to be vulnerable to sunlight when he sheds her skin.

You can also search for the hidden skin and fill it up with salt.  The salt will burn her making it impossible for him to wear her skin.  Eventually the sunlight would fully destroy the creature.