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'''Orang Bunian''' are fairies similar to elves in Malay folklore. ...been known to befriend and assist humans, in particular pawangs or bomohs (malay shamans). Orang bunian are known to abduct human children, and are often bl

...) owing to the ancient Hindu-Buddhist influence in the region. The word is Malay, but there are bomoh of all religions and races. [[Category: Malay mythology]]

'''Hantu Air, Puaka Air''' or '''Mambang Air''' is the Malay translation for ''Spirit of the Water'', which is the unseen inhabitant of [[Category:Malay mythology]]

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'''Pelesit''' is a dark spirit revered by shamans in Malay culture. [[Category:Malay mythology]]

'''Hantu Raya''' in early Malay animism, refers to a supreme ghost or demon which is suppose to confer the ...hose who make alliance with it, are considered powerful. In modern Islamic Malay culture, the belief in Hantu Raya is no longer valid, but rather it is iden

In Malay folklore, the '''Orang Minyak''' is a supernatural serial rapist that is ha Orang Minyak literally means ''oily man'' in Malay.

In Philippine and Malay mythology, a '''Hantu Demon''' is a well-known evil spirit or demon. ''Hantu'' is the Malay word for ''ghost'' and ''Pulau Hantu'' means ''ghost island.''

'''Polong''' is a spirit created by magic in Malay mythology. [[Category:Malay mythology]]

...'Tuyul''' is a small child spirit invoked by a bomoh (shaman) in the Malay mythology of South-East Asia (notably Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore). [[Category:Malay mythology]]

...ra-Sue) is the floating head of a vampiric female ghost in Southeast Asian mythology. [[Category:Thai mythology]]

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...own in Indonesia, sometimes shortened to just '''kunti''') is according to Malay folklore, a woman who died during delivery or childbirth and became a [[vam ...alay pän-té- -näk.. The origination of the word "Pontianak" is unknown. In Malay "anak" means child but the word "ponti" is unknown.

The '''Bajang''' is a lesser spirit from Malaysian mythology which generally takes the form of a fox or polecat (musang) [[Category:Malay mythology]]

[[Category:Malay mythology]] [[Category:Indonesian mythology]]

...antu Penanggal''' is a a vampire in the folklore of the inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula, or Balan-balan in Sabah. ...of the pregnant women would plant pineapples under the house (traditional Malay houses are built on stilts and thus have a lot of room underneath).

'''Babi Ngepet''' is a were-boar in Javanese mythology. [[Category: Malay mythology]]

The '''Langsuir''' or '''Langsuyar''' is a Malay vampire that originates from women who had laboring sickness (meroyan) as a [[Category:Malaysian mythology]]

...an - A peculiar variation of the vampire myth that apparently began in the Malay Peninsula. [[Category: Malaysian mythology]]

...ains, a densely forested and steep-sloped ridge at the southern end of the Malay peninsular. [[Category: Malaysian mythology]]

A '''manananggal''' in Filipino folklore or '''penanggalan''' in Malay folklore consists of a woman's torso that has wings attached. The woman spl ...severed torso: Manananggal comes from the Tagalog, ''tanggal'' (cognate of Malay and Indonesian ''tanggal'') which means to sever. Manananggal then means th

...ary Beings''. Borges claimed that he had found the legend in the book ''On Malay Witchcraft'' (1937), by C.C. Iturvuru. [[Category:Asian mythology]]

...(4 feet 11 inches) are called pygmies. Pygmies can be found in Africa, the Malay Peninsula, the Andaman Islands, New Guinea, and the Philippines. Many of th [[Category: Japanese mythology]]

...ted person is, or has, transformed into an animal. It is named after the [[mythology|myth]]ical condition of lycanthropy, a [[supernatural]] affliction in which ...hropy has been sometimes associated with latah behaviour, described by the Malay people. However, modern latah is rarely associated with the sort of animal-

...own as '''Kap Dwa''', which translates approximately as Two-Heads. (In the Malay language, kepala means head and dua means two; how this relates to the supp [[Category:South American and Mesoamerican mythology]]

...semi divine serpent creatures beings first depicted in ancient Vedic Hindu mythology and oral folklore from at least 5000 B.C. Stories involving the Nagas are omnipresent in Hindu and Buddhist mythology and still very much a part of contemporary cultural traditions in predomina