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Pocong (Indonesian pronunciation: [pɔ't͡ʃɔŋ] poh-chong; from Javanese: ꦥꦺꦴꦕꦺꦴꦁ, romanized: pocong, lit. 'wrapped-in-shroud') is a ghost that looks like a person wrapped in a funeral cloth. [1] In Islamic funeral, a shroud called a " kain kafan " (in Indonesian and Malay) is used to wrap the body of the dead person.
v. t. e. Hantu is the Malay and Indonesian word for spirit or ghost. [1] In modern usage it generally means spirits of the dead but has also come to refer to any legendary invisible being, such as demons. [2] In its traditional context the term also referred to animistic nature spirits or ancestral souls. [3]
There are many Malay ghost myths (Malay: cerita hantu Melayu; Jawi: چريتا هنتو ملايو), remnants of old animist beliefs that have been shaped by Hindu-Buddhist cosmology and later Muslim influences, in the modern states of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore and among the Malay diaspora in neighbouring Southeast Asian countries.
Wewe Gombel is a female supernatural being or vengeful ghost in Javanese mythology. It is said that she kidnaps children. [1] This myth is taught to encourage children to be cautious and to stay at home at night. Traditionally, the Wewe Gombel is represented as a woman with long, hanging breasts. [2] Modern representations include vampire -like ...
Hantu Raya. The Hantu Raya is a type of familiar spirit in Malay folklore that acts as a double for black magic practitioners. [1] Roughly meaning "great ghost", it is supposed to bestow great power onto its master. [2] Its true form according to folktale is humanoid form with black hairy body except the facial area, rough grey skin, long sharp ...
Omar Abdulkader. September 16, 2024 at 8:10 AM. Sulaymaniyah, Iraq — Officials, family members and journalists gathered Saturday in Freedom Park, in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah, for ...
In Malaysian folklore, the Orang Mawas or Mawas (also known as the Orang Dalam) is an entity reported to inhabit the jungle of Johor in Malaysia. Description [ edit ]
They called him a monster. He called them Barker's Beauties. They called him a monster. After a decade of fighting the most powerful man in daytime television, Holly Hallstrom had come to the end ...