...kes, seas, swamps and even ditches associated with bad things happening to people which includes drowning, missing, flooding and many more.
Some people believe that spirits discarded by their previous owners will haunt places a
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'''Orang Bunian''' are fairies similar to elves in Malay folklore.
...unian are known to abduct human children, and are often blamed for leading people astray in the deep forest. Some hauntings are attributed to orang bunian.
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'''Yinlugen Bud''' is an ancient spirit from the Malaysian Chewong people. He is the ghost of a tree trunk and helped teach the hero [[Bujaegn Yed]]
[[Category: Malay mythology]]
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'''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 In modern Islamic Malay culture, the belief in Hantu Raya is no longer valid, but rather it is iden
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'''Pelesit''' is a dark spirit revered by shamans in Malay culture.
...ield for protection, guidance, and most probably as a weapon to harm other people. It is the female version of [[Hantu Raya]] which confers great power on th
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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.''
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'''Polong''' is a spirit created by magic in Malay mythology.
...owner will keep the Polong inside the bottle but unleashes it when needed. People who have been attacked by Polong are left with bruises, a few markings and
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...or '''Tuyul''' is a small child spirit invoked by a bomoh (shaman) in the Malay mythology of South-East Asia (notably Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Sin
People normally associate the appearance of a toyol with that of a small baby, fre
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...eleased after 40 days, the body is said to jump out from the grave to warn people that the soul need the bonds to be released. After the ties are released, t
[[Category:Malay mythology]]
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* Toyol - ghostly children used by the owner to steal other people's money.
* Hantu Khairi - usually sucks money and steal money from village people.
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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.
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People who have caught the jenglot usually bring their creature all over Indonesia
[[Category:Malay mythology]]
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...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).
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...oropokkuru''', '''korobokkuru''', or '''koropokkur''', are a race of small people in Ainu folklore (Japan).
..., and ''kur'' or ''kuru'' (man, husband, person) and interpreted to mean ''people below the leaves of the butterbur plant'' in the Ainu language.
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...ains, a densely forested and steep-sloped ridge at the southern end of the Malay peninsular.
...there have been many sightings of the creature, which the local Orang Asli people call '''hantu jerang gigi''', which translates as 'Snaggle-toothed Ghost'.
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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
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...yth]]ical condition of lycanthropy, a [[supernatural]] affliction in which people are said to physically shapeshift into [[werewolf|werewolves]]. The word ''
...the reality of human existence after treatment. There are also reports of people who experienced transformation into an animal only listed as 'unspecified.'
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The '''Patagones''' or '''Patagonian giants''' are a mythical race of people, who was believed to live in the region and coastline of Patagonia.
Pigafetta (see below) recorded that Magellan had bestowed on these people the name "Patagão" (i.e. "Patagon", or Patagoni in Pigafetta's Italian plu
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...the living during the night watches. The so-called Spectre Huntsman of the Malay Peninsula is said to be a man who scours the firmament with his dogs, vainl
...r God in early Judaism, and a somewhat minor angel at that.[23] While most people believe that Lucifer and Satan are different names for the same being, not
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...as their primeavel patriach, for it was he who wedded the mother of their people.
...married the king of Ancient Cambodia, and thus gave rise to the Cambodian people. This is why, still, today, Cambodians say that they are "Born from the Nā
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