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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.
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.
Reportedly haunted locations in Malaysia (2 P) Pages in category "Malaysian ghosts" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The Kuntilanak has been portrayed in Indonesian and Malaysian horror films and on Indonesian and Malaysian television. Malaysian films: Pontianak (1957) Dendam Pontianak (1957) Sumpah Pontianak (1958) Anak Pontianak, also known as The Pontianak Child (1958) The Return of Pontianak (1963) Pontianak Musang Cave (1964) Pontianak [4] (1975)
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 punjut: a ghost that takes children who wander into the forest late at night; Hantu tinggi: lit. "tall ghost", a type of giant that will flee at the sight of a naked body; Jembalang: a demon or evil spirit that usually brings disease; Lang suir: the mother of a pontianak. Able to take the form of an owl with long talons, and attacks ...
The word hantu is most often translated as ghost in modern Malay, but is actually closer in meaning to "spirit". The word raya roughly means "great" or "high". The term hantu raya (therefore meaning "great ghost") is sometimes mistaken as meaning a supreme demon which rules over all ghosts, but its high status comes not from its position and instead refers to the spirit's power, being one of ...
In his book Malay Magic, Walter William Skeat, an English anthropologist, recorded the origins of the langsuyar myth, as told by Malays in Selangor: . The original Langsuir (whose embodiment is supposed to be a kind of night-owl) is described as being a woman of dazzling beauty, who died from the shock of hearing that her child was stillborn, and had taken the shape of the Pontianak.