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Reportedly haunted locations in Malaysia (2 P) Pages in category "Malaysian ghosts" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
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 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 ...
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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 ...
The name penanggalan derives from the word tanggal, meaning "to remove or take off", because its form is that of a floating disembodied woman's head, with its organs and entrails trailing from its neck. Though commonly referred to in its native languages as a ghost, the penanggalan cannot be readily classified as a classical undead being.
Various ghost groups have reported sightings there. [10] [better source needed] North Head Quarantine Station in Manly, New South Wales housed victims of a number of diseases including smallpox and the Spanish flu between 1833 and 1984. It was the site of over 500 deaths. A number of ghost tours are run on the grounds, which includes a large ...
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.