Manlalayog, The Long Hair Wraith

During colonization, women in power were demonized, turning them into subjects of witch hunts. Among the notable few who went missing was a blind beautiful-haired shaman.
In the darkest of the night, she was dragged by the hair to the depths of a forest. Like beasts, the colonizers feasted on her. They cut through her hair down to her flesh. Noone bore witness to their atrocity, neither the moon nor did she.
One by one, her hair fell buried to the blood-soaked soil. Like a fertilizer, her anger seeped in every last strand, giving will to a vengeful wraith. With no image of the perpetrators, her hair preyed on every living being.
Her revenge went into every wooden stave that thrust the life out of passersby.
To this day, telltales of a long-haired woman sitting atop a branch ward off men from taking innocent lives under the woods.