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Pages in category "Cambodian folklore" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. A Leav; Ayai; M.
Vorvong and Sorvong is one of the oral traditions of the Khmer folklore of unknown origin, apart from its geographical origin in Phnom Vorvong and Phnom Sorvong, where two mountains bare their names. As is often the case in Khmer buddhism, the two heroes are considered boddhisatvas , earlier incarnations of the buddha, and as such they find ...
អាប (Ahp/Aap), derived from a Sanskrit word आप्यति (āpyati, 'to cause anyone to suffer'), [16] [17] in Cambodian folklore is usually a woman who is half spirit and half-mortal. During the daytime, they appeared to look like normal human beings but during nighttime they ascended, leaving their mortal body with only their head ...
The folk dance music is played by a mahori orchestra. A popular folk dance is the Cambodian coconut dance which is a dance performance involving coconuts with male and female dancers. The dance originated around 1960 from Romeas Haek District in Svay Rieng Province. [14] Cambodian vernacular dances (or social dances) are those danced at social ...
A Leav is part of the corpus of Cambodian folktales and narratives.. Translated to French by Guillaume-Henri Monod in 1922, he considered the tale to be representative of a certain type of Khmer wisdom literature and of "the fertility of the Khmer imagination which likes to accumulate incidents, to often complicate situations and to emerge, not without skill, from intrigues which are quite ...
Pages in category "Cambodian legendary creatures" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Gajasimha; K.
A ting mong in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia. Ting mong (Khmer: ទីងមោង) is a decoy or mannequin popular in Khmer folklore, traditionally with a head and no body, but more recently in the shape of a human, similar in its shape to the scarecrow, but different in its function as its purpose is not to scare crows but to fight away evil spirits and plagues.
Lakhon Khol is a traditional mask theatre in Cambodia. Having originated in Bhani, a type of drama, mentioned in at least 10th century inscriptions of Cambodia, Lkhon Khol today is performed by males, wearing masks and accompanied by traditional Pinpeat orchestra. It performs only episodes from Reamker, a Cambodian version of the Indian Ramayana.