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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 ]
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.
Hantu may refer to: Hantu, an Indonesian genus of spiders; Hantu (supernatural creature), a ghost or spirit in Indonesian and Malay Hantu Air, a spirit of the water; Hantu Penanggal, a female nocturnal ghost; Hantu Pocong, a spirit of the dead; Hantu Raya, a spirit that confers its owner great powers
The Malayan water shrew (Chimarrogale hantu), also known as the hantu water shrew, is a red-toothed shrew recorded only from the Malaysian state of Selangor. It was listed as a critically endangered, but is now considered near threatened. [2] It gets its scientific name hantu from the Malay word for ghost.
Alongside the penanggalan, there is the Ahp (Khmer: អាប) in Cambodia; the Kasu (Lao: ກະສື, pronounced) in Laos; the Krasue (Thai: กระสือ, pronounced [krā.sɯ̌ː]) in Thailand and much of Southeast Asia; the Kuyang (pronounced), Leyak (Indonesian pronunciation:); the hantu polong of the Temuan; the Ma lai (Vietnamese ...
Hantu belian: an evil tiger spirit that enters the body of a human and runs amok [2] 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 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]
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 ...