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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 ...
Hantu galah: a ghost with legs and arms as long and slender as bamboo poles. Hantu kopek: a female ghost with large bosoms who lures men who cheat on their wives; Hantu kum-kum: the ghost of an old woman who sucks the blood of virgin girls to regain her youth. Hantu lilin: a wandering spirit that carries a torch or a lit candle at night
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]
Hantu Air. Hantu Air, Puaka Air or Mambang Air is the Malay translation for Spirit of the Water or Water Ghost, which according to animist traditions in Maritime Southeast Asia, is the unseen inhabitant of watery places such as rivers, lakes, seas, swamps and even ditches. [1] Communication between humans and Hantu Air occur in situations based ...
Contents. Penanggalan. The penanggalan or penanggal is a nocturnal vampiric entity from Malay ghost myths. It takes the form of a floating disembodied woman's head, with its organs and entrails trailing from its neck. From afar, the penanggalan is said to twinkle like a ball of flame, similar to the will-o'-the-wisp phenomenon. The penanggalan ...
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.
The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [1] [2] As of 15 October 2024, it has 213,123 articles, 185,654 registered users and 11,121 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over ...
The oldest Tua Pek Kong Temple, located in Tanjung Tokong, Penang, Malaysia, from which worship of Tua Pek Kong originated before its spread throughout Malaysia, Singapore, and parts of Indonesia. [1] Tua Pek Kong (Chinese: 大伯公; Tâi-lô: Tuā-peh-kong) is a Taoist deity in the pantheon of Peranakan folk religion practiced by ethnic ...