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What is the Pontianak? A look into her legend, history and legacy

2024-06-18T10:34:00.002+08:00

Some warn of a Pontianak's presence through barking dogs, the sudden waft of sweet floral scents, and the eerie echoes of female laughter. (Photo: Getty Images)

The term finds its origins in the spectral accounts of West Kalimantan, where it is portrayed as a formidable female ghost in Malay folklore.

In the heart of Southeast Asia's deep and enigmatic folklore, there are multiple eerie figures that send shivers down the spine of the average human being.

Some of these figures have varied origins, and have had backstories that have been debated endlessly by scholars (yes, there is a whole book and field of study dedicated to malay magic).

One of those legends that has held the collective imagination of the region in its thrall for centuries is the Pontianak.

Renowned for her otherworldly beauty and deadly allure, this malevolent spirit is the very essence of legend, both enthralling storytellers and instilling dread among the superstitious souls in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

The term "Pontianak" finds its origins in the spectral accounts of West Kalimantan, where it is portrayed as a formidable female ghost within the tapestry of Malay folklore.

Legend has it that these ethereal beings once haunted the region until a valiant confrontation by Sultan Syarif Abdurrahman Alkadrie and his army, who drove them away with resounding cannon fire.

In the aftermath, a mosque and palace graced the very grounds once occupied by these apparitions, marking the birth of a city. To this day, the community commemorates this historical event by firing bamboo cannons during Ramadan and other festive occasions.

The numerous 'origins' of the Pontianak

The Pontianak's origins are as nebulous and ominous as the mists of a Southeast Asian rainforest.

Within the realms of Malay and Indonesian folklore, the Pontianak is recognised as either a female vampire or the spectral manifestation of a woman who met her end during childbirth.

In scholarly discourse, some researchers posits her evolution from the Langsuir, another variety of vampire, while others suggest a more complex relationship where the Pontianak might be considered a "offspring" of the Langsuir.

Some also hold the belief that she is the restless soul who met her demise at the hands of men, and that she returns from beyond the grave as a ghost or vampire, consumed by a relentless thirst for vengeance against men.

The Pontianak is often described clad in a flowing green robe, her distinctive features including her pointed nails and lengthy, jet-black hair cascading down to her ankles.

We can't say for certain that this is what a real Pontianak looks like, but based on the stories and legends.....this is probably a close representation of Cik Ponti. (Photo: Getty Images)

Where does the Pontianak 'reside'?

Folklore presents two common beliefs about her dwelling: some suggest she resides like an owl, perched high in the trees, while others claim she makes her home in the vicinity of banana trees.

Her beauty ensnares unsuspecting victims, primarily men, holding them captive until it's too late. Only when she unveils her true form, with eyes aglow in an eerie crimson hue and venom-dripping fangs, do they confront the horrifying reality.

According to folklore, to banish the Pontianak's malevolence, one must firmly drive a long nail into the hollow at the nape of her neck. This daunting task, owing to her extraordinary supernatural strength, necessitates the restraint of multiple individuals during the nail-insertion ritual.

Once the nail is driven into the neck, the Pontianak undergoes a metamorphosis, assuming the appearance of a stunning woman and embodying the traits of a devoted spouse. This enchanting transformation persists as long as the nail remains securely embedded.

Some warn of a Pontianak's presence through barking dogs, the sudden waft of sweet floral scents, and the eerie echoes of female laughter.

Her legend lives on

The Pontianak has transcended generations, transforming into a symbol of caution and dread in the cultural landscape of Southeast Asia.

She has permeated literature, cinema, and art, her presence serving as a constant reminder of the darkness that lurks in the human psyche. Numerous films, including the classic Malaysian horror movie "Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam", have paid homage to her spine-chilling legend.

As we conclude this short but succinct journey through the history of the Pontianak, we leave you with a haunting question: Is she a product of superstition, a cautionary tale to deter the curious, or an embodiment of the darkness that resides in the deepest recesses of our hearts?

The answer for now, akin to the Pontianak herself, remains concealed in mystery.

Source :

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/legend-of-the-pontianak-a-look-into-her-history-legacy-233046685.html

Testing my blog

2024-04-20T22:34:00.002+08:00

I like to test for my post in this blog

Ghost Investigators got it

2021-10-22T22:03:00.005+08:00

Ghosts at Attic

2021-08-30T20:16:00.011+08:00

My house is old and the portion of the attic that I took a picture of has been untouched for years we simply can't reach it. I decided to see if I could spot anything interesting, something that might have been there for years and take a picture of it using the flash of my camera, as it is normally far too dark to see anything in there or even reach. 

l opened the door, which comes up to my chest, I leaned in and took the snap. When I looked a photo, I saw a broken china ornament of some kind, which is unfortunately too deep in the attic to be obtained at the moment. I was looking at the picture on a flat screen, and I stood up to go and get a cup of milk, and a human like figure became very apparent and positively glowed in the photo. I moved my head back down and the figure was invisible. I think this is just the way my screen displays colors but I don't have access to anyone else's computer so I can't know for certain! I can definitely see a face and hand and perhaps a long flowing dress on the figure.

My father thinks that she (I'm positive this is a female apparition) looks like she was 'sitting on her hip upon the roof beam, and she has had a shock when I took the photo and is jumping up'! It's sad to think that an entity would be there alone and what's more why? Why would there be a lonely soul in this part of the home where people visit very infrequently? Source : Ghosts of London FB

TOYOL UNDEAD INFANT

2020-05-27T16:41:00.001+08:00

Illustration of how a Toyol could disturb us.

Source : Wikipedia

A toyol or tuyul is an undead infant in South-East Asian folklore. It appears in the mythology of Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. It is invoked as a helper by shamans (dukun or bomoh) using black magic.

This creature can be evoked to work with a human under its own terms. There are different methods to possess a Toyol:

Purchase a Toyol from a Shaman.
Making use of an aborted baby and through special embalmment techniques.
Evoke a Toyol from its dwelling place.

A Toyol is like an animal, so it needs to be treated as such. In order to foster a closer relationship with this creature, the below offerings should be presented:

A cup of milk every morning.
Some toys, clothing, sweets and biscuits.
A black candle and incense accompanied with mantras.
Some will smear a few drops of the owner’s own blood to the Toyol statue.

A person who owns a toyol uses it mainly to steal things from other people, or to do mischief. According to a well-known superstition, if money or jewelry keeps disappearing mysteriously from your house, a toyol might be responsible. One way to ward off a toyol is to place some needles under your money, for toyols are afraid of being hurt by needles.

According to Javanese mythology, the creature is believed to be kept by a person practicing pesugihan toyol black magic . Pesugihan is derived from Javanese word sugih means “rich”. It is a kind of magic to help people to become rich instantly, but in exchange he or she must perform some rituals or offering tumbal (sacrifice something) to keep the toyol happy. According to Javanese myth, toyol can be kept for financial gain, but in exchange a female member of the family must allow it to breastfeed from her, sucking blood instead of milk.

The toyol is traditionally described as looking no different from a near-naked toddler. Modern depictions often give it a goblin-like appearance with green or grey skin, pointed ears, and clouded eyes.

In old village tales, people keep toyol for theft, sabotage and other minor crimes. With special rituals the toyol can be made powerful and commit murder. A person who suddenly becomes wealthy without explanation might be suspected of keeping a toyol. The toyol is kept in a jar or an urn, and hidden away in a dark place until needed.

What happens at the end of the contract is not very clear. It could be that the tablet, along with the urn, is buried in a graveyard (with the relevant rituals), and the spirit is then laid to rest. An alternative method is to dispose of them in the sea. If not properly disposed of, a toyol gets passed down in a family through the generations.

However, it can still get released by either the owner or shaman (bomoh) to roam free. Without a master, it would stray into the jungle or visit homes as an observer without disturbing residents. Based on an anecdote, a toyol confessed that it likes to peek into people’s lives apart from the occasional distraction of playing with any toys found within houses. Simply put, toyol is quite harmless without a master, but it can turn to crime or mischief under the command of an unscrupulous individual.

After stealing, the only traces of its presence are its childlike footprints and fingerprints found at the crime scene if it happens to have dust on its hands and feet. Otherwise, people would not suspect that a toyol had raided their premises.

In Thailand, they are known as Koman-tong, for male sprits, and Koman-lay for females. Literally translated as “Golden Child”. They are used for protection, they can whisper in your ear of impending danger. Koman-tongs are usually wandering souls of dead children that the monks would adopt and give them a “replacement body”. The “replacement body” is usually a small statue carved out of tree bark, coral or baby bone. It is then placed in a container, soaked in perfume or chicken blood.

The story of the Golden Child comes supposedly from a 19th-century Thai tale called, “Khun Chang Khun Paen”. In brief, the story goes:

Khun Paen was a soldier, 400 years previous, a time when supernatural forces played an important part of traditional warfare. Khun Paen had wanted a protective spirit to watch over him in battle. To this end he cut the unborn foetus of his son from his dead wife’s womb and took it to a temple to perform an occult rite. He wrapped the child’s torso in sacred cloth and roasted it on a fire whilst chanting ritual mantras and dark incantations to create the supernatural being with whom he could communicate.

The more powerful Kuman-tong are made by sorcerers living in the mountains. They would soak the “replacement body” in embalming oil. This ingredient seems to be crucial as it gives the toyol additional powers. Corpse oil is collected by removing the dead corpse’s chin (using a knife to cut through the bones) and cooking on a hot pan until the oil oozes out. These Thai ones are more subdued and even tempered, as the monks would chant to them daily.

Kwee Kia (鬼孩/小鬼)

Kwee Kia is the Chinese version of the toyol. These are made from either a fetus that miscarried or been aborted. A medium will take these small corpses and chop off their heads. Once the heads are collected, they will be dried out and cooked to obtain their corpse oil while the bones from the bodies are carved to become replacement bodies. These have to be specially ordered before you can get one.

If the fetus is five months old, they would carve the replacement body out of its own bone, in which case they are supposedly more powerful. Different Kwee Kia have different uses and different names. Usually the ones made in the deep mountains (山巴) are stronger.

Characteristic of a Toyol/Kwee Kia

They will protect the owner, talk to him, accomplish tasks for him. Some toyols are tasked to find spirits of wandering children so that they can be made into toyols.
They do not like to be abandoned and will kill when provoked. They can kill by either slashing one’s throat with their long claws or squeezing one’s heart, amongst others.
They can pass through walls or even human bodies and see into the human body (hence some mediums use them to give medical advice).
They are known to take possession of their owner’s body if they are hungry at night. Due to their preference for raw meat, the owners sometimes end up eating raw meat from their fridges in the middle of the night, without even knowing it. The eating of raw meat also makes the toyol stronger.
They are intensely jealous, especially when they know that a new child is on the way.
Their powers will increase with each year.
The owner has to feed it blood the 14th of each month (they seem very particular about their eating patterns. They will not touch something as disgusting as a sanitary pad)
They are used for finding information for their owners:
1. Giving their owners information at the gambling table but it is typically difficult because the casinos would usually have their own toyols guarding the place. The casino would also have employed other spiritual masters to bless the place with gods so that outside toyols cannot enter. The owner would have better luck if he was playing with his friends or an unprotected place.
2. They are also used by fortune tellers who will get their toyols to give background information on their customers so that they will be convinced of the fortune teller’s prowess.
They can even help their owner (if male) to seduce women.
But they can turn against their owner, if there is a child on the way. It will become jealous, causing the owner to have bad luck, constantly losing things and even confusing the owner.
When you get the toyol initially from the Spiritual master, he will teach you how to control it. He will teach you a few chants so that you can tell the toyol instructions such as (1) to eat (2) look for information you need (3) do certain tasks. There is even a chant to the effect that it will “get beaten/caned” if it’s not obedient.
If it is not well taken care of, it will sometimes create trouble for the owner so that it will be taken back to the spiritual master that created it so that it can complain to him against the owner.
In order to get rid of a toyol, you have to take it back to the spiritual master that made it. But complications arise when that master dies. Then the spiritual master’s disciple will have to be sought to solve the problem. If no disciple is to be found, it then becomes a big problem! Other spiritual masters/ghost catchers can be called in to convince it to go.
The toyols ultimately wants to be reborn/reincarnated. But some choose not to take that path because when they are reincarnated, they may not be reborn as humans again. Because of what they are and what they have done, judgment will be passed onto them and they will have to go through a few cycles lasting a few hundred years (risking reborn as animals first), before they can be reborn ultimately as a human. Hence they may choose to stay a toyol. The owner can choose the toyol to take over the body of his unborn child.
In the event that the bottle/jar is broken, they will be stronger as they are now freed and there is nothing to restrain/control them. The owner will also be punished for breaking the bottle. The owner will then have to get the bottle replaced and get it refilled with corpse oil.
The bottle has to be put under the moon to absorb its energy so that it will be strong. Blood is dripped into the bottle every 14th of the month. Corpse oil has to be refilled if the levels drop in the bottle.
Like a child, when telling the toyol to accomplish a task, very specified instructions have to be given to it. E.g. You need it to steal a $10,000 for you. You have to go through the steps of (1) showing it the different denominations. (2) telling it what the rewards of bringing back the different denomination, $10 will get it a certain amount of sweets and with $50, it will get it a bigger amount (3) showing it what a 10 thousand note look like and telling it the reward for bringing the note back.
It cannot help make predictions for four-digit numbers. But in rare cases where it is a powerful toyol, it can approach a spirit/ghost for numbers. But this seldom happens.
It understands different languages.
It likes to be treated like a baby echidna. Enjoys hugs like a baby and listening to lullabies. Usually under the beds of the owners, there will be toys, marbles, toy cars and baby sucklers. Likes to be rewarded with sweets and toys. Some of them will even ride a child’s tricycle. They supposedly also like to play with water.
To find out if the house has a toyol, you can line up matchbox toy cars in a line. You will find them moving on their own.
During meal times, the owner and the toyol have to eat together. A plate of food, the same as what the owner is eating, has to be placed beside the owner during mealtime. If the owner forgets to feed the toyol, he will find bruise(s) on his body to serve as warning. If circumstance really does not allow them to eat together, then the toyol has to be fed first before the owner eats. Food that has been offered to the toyol and “eaten” by it, supposedly spoils very quickly.
It is not true that you can abandon a toyol overseas. Supposedly it can latch itself onto people’s luggage and make its way back.
Because the toyol is consistently fed with the owner’s blood, it has established a link with the owner. With the passing of time, the link is so strong that there is no need for spoken words and the two can communicate via “the heart” (用心沟通). Eventually it can even read the owner’s thoughts. In some cases, they are aware that the owner is thinking of abandoning them before the deed is done. Sometimes they choose to communicate to the owner in their dreams.
They sometimes complain to the owner if it is not treated right. It has to be treated with tender loving care (爱心). Owners when getting one of these toyols have to know that they have a responsibility towards looking after them and not only be concern about the benefits they bring. They are not pets that can be abandoned.
Malays who keep toyol like to pass it down to their children because they know the toyol has helped them and it can continue to do the same for their children.
Initially when it is brought back, its presence may not be felt. But as it spends more and more time in the house, you will know if it’s around.
Toyols that stay evoked for long periods take on features akin to men and women.
There are also female toyols. But male ones are more common as the girl toyols are more vicious and difficult to control. The bond with their owners is stronger and closer, hence they are more possessive and jealous. They also tend to be stubborn. If they want something, there will be no negotiation. Their preference for toys would be dolls and not cars. They will not perform all the tasks of the boy toyols. They are more homebound and hence will not perform tasks such as stealing. They are usually used to defend the house and beat up baddies. Due to their “lack of usefulness” and control issues, female toyols are not common.
Toyols are dressed. Owners would buy children clothes, placing them in the cupboard for them to wear.
If the toyol knows that the owner is planning to destroy it, it will make sure that the owner dies together with it.

Weaknesses

Although seemingly cunning, toyols are supposedly not very intelligent. It is said that they are easily deceived by marbles or beans placed in certain parts of the house. The toyol will start playing with these items until it forgets its task at the intended victim’s house. Money placed under mirrors has the potency to ward off toyol due to a fear of their reflection.

My Real Ghost Stories Ep 07

2020-05-23T14:29:00.000+08:00

Chinese Ghosts

2020-05-21T15:25:00.000+08:00

Chinese folklore features a rich variety of ghosts, monsters, and other supernatural creatures. According to traditional beliefs a ghost is the spirit form of a person who has died. Ghosts are typically malevolent and will cause harm to the living if provoked. Many Chinese folk beliefs about ghosts have been adopted into the mythologies and folklore of neighboring East Asian cultures, notably Japan and Korea.

“If from antiquity to the present, and since the beginning of man, there are men who have seen the bodies of ghosts and spirits and heard their voices, how can we say that they do not exist? If none have heard them and none have seen them, then how can we say they do? But those who deny the existence of the spirits say: “Many in the world have heard and seen something of ghosts and spirits. Since they vary in testimony, who are to be accepted as really having heard and seen them?” Mo Tzu said: As we are to rely on what many have jointly seen and what many have jointly heard, the case of Tu Po is to be accepted.

The Chinese philosopher, Mo Tzu (470–391 BCE)

Ba jiao gui (芭蕉鬼; ‘banana ghost’) is a female ghost that dwells in a banana tree and appears wailing under the tree at night, sometimes carrying a baby. In some folktales from Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, greedy people ask for lottery numbers from the ghost in the hope of winning money. They tie a red string around the tree trunk, stick sharp needles into the tree, and tie the other end of the string to their beds. At night, the ghost appears and begs the person to set her free. In return, she will give him/her a set of winning numbers. If the person does not fulfil his/her promise to set the ghost free after winning, he/she will meet with a horrible death. This ghost is similar in some aspects to the Pontianak/Kuntilanak in Malay and Indonesian forklore

Di fu ling (地縛靈; 地缚灵; ‘Earth-bound spirit’) refers to ghosts who are bound to certain locations on Earth, such as their place of burial or a place they had a strong attachment to when they were alive.

Diao si gui (吊死鬼; ‘hanged ghost’) are the ghosts of people who died from hanging due to various reasons (e.g. execution, suicide, accident). They are usually depicted with long red tongues sticking out of their mouths.

E gui ( 餓鬼; 饿鬼; ‘hungry ghost’) refers to ghosts that appear during the Ghost Festival . They are the spirits of people who committed sins out of greed when they were alive, and have been condemned to suffer in hunger after death. The e gui is usually depicted as having green or grey skin, a mouth too small for ingesting food, and sometimes with a potbelly. The ghost suffers from insatiable hunger and roams the streets and kitchens in search of offerings and decomposed food. These hungry ghosts consume anything, including excreted waste and rotten flesh. There are various types: some have fire-breathing abilities while others suffer from anorexia.

Gui po (鬼婆; ‘old woman ghost’) is a ghost that takes the form of a peaceful and friendly old woman. They may be the spirits of amahs or servants who used to work as servants in rich families. They return to help their masters with housekeeping matters or take care of young children and babies. However, there are also evil gui pos with disgusting and violent appearances.

The jiangshi (殭屍; 僵屍; ‘stiff corpse’) is also known as the “Chinese vampire” even though it behaves more like a zombie rather than a vampire (in Western cultures). They are reanimated corpses that move by hopping around and they kill living beings to absorb their yang energy.

Nü gui (女鬼; ‘female ghost’), is a vengeful female ghost with long hair in a white dress. In folklore, this ghost is the spirit of a woman who committed suicide while wearing a red dress. Usually, she experienced some form of injustice when she was alive, such as being wronged or sexually abused. She returns to take her revenge. A tabloid story tells of a funeral ceremony where family members of a murder victim dress her in red, in the hope that her spirit will return to take revenge on her murderer. In traditional folklore, the colour red symbolises anger and vengeance. On the other hand, some ancient folktales tell of beautiful female ghosts who seduce men and suck their yang essence or sometimes kill them. This type of female ghost is likened to the Succubus. Paradoxically, the male counterpart of a nü gui, a nan gui (男鬼; : ‘male ghost’), is rarely mentioned.

Shui gui (水鬼; ‘water ghost’) are the spirits of people who drowned. They lurk in the place where they died, drag unsuspecting victims underwater, and drown them to take possession of their bodies. This process is known as ti shen (替身; ‘replace the body’), in which the spirit returns to life in the victim’s body while the victim’s spirit takes the shui gui’s place and constantly seeks to take control of another living person’s body.

Wutou gui (無頭鬼; 无头鬼;’headless ghost’) are headless ghosts who roam about aimlessly. They are the spirits of people who were killed by decapitation due to various causes (e.g. execution, accident). In some tales, the wutou gui approaches people at night and asks them where his/her head is. The wutou gui is sometimes depicted as carrying his/her head on the side.

You hun ye gui (游魂野鬼; : ‘wandering souls and wild ghosts’) refer to the wandering spirits of the dead. They roam the world of the living in the Seventh Lunar Month (typically August in the Gregorian calendar) during the Ghost Festival. These spirits include vengeful ghosts seeking revenge on those who offended them before, hungry ghosts and playful spirits who might cause trouble during that period. The Chinese Idiom gu hun ye gui ( 孤魂野鬼; ‘lonely souls and wild ghosts’), which describes such spirits, is also used to refer to homeless people or those who wander around aimlessly.

Yuan gui (冤鬼; ‘ghost with grievance’) are the spirits of persons who died wrongful deaths. Beliefs in such ghosts had surfaced in China from as early as the Zhou dynasty and were recorded in the historical text Zuo Zhuan.These ghosts can neither rest in peace nor be reincarnated. They roam the world of the living as depressed and restless spirits who constantly seek to have their grievances redressed. In some tales, these ghosts approach living people and attempt to communicate with them to lead them to clues or pieces of evidence that point out that they died wrongful deaths. The living people then try to help them clear their names or otherwise ensure that justice is served.

Ying ling (嬰靈; 婴灵; ‘infant spirit’) refer to the spirits of dead fetuses. People rare baby spirits to help them do things. We can write more about baby spirits in our next blog post.

Zhi ren (紙人; 纸人; ‘paper person’) are dolls made from paper that are burnt as offerings to the dead to become the deceased’s servants. These dolls usually come in pairs – one male and one female – and are sometimes called jin tong yu nü (金童玉女; ‘golden boy and jade girl’). These dolls are not exactly spirits by themselves, but they can do the bidding of their deceased masters.

Zhong yin shen (中陰身; 中阴身; ‘intermediate yin body’) refers to a spirit in a transition state between his/her death and when he/she is reincarnated as described in Mahayana Buddhism. This period of time is usually 49 days.

In the Śūraṅgama Sūtra, ghosts are depicted as the souls of wicked humans who, after undergoing punishment for their offenses in the afterlife, are eventually reborn as demons. Like the immortal xian, the text describes ten types of ghosts, characterizing each type with their principal offense and their unique ability.

Weird ghosts (怪鬼; 妖鬼; ) were consumed by materialism in life and can transform into any physical object.
Drought ghosts (魃鬼; ) were consumed by carnal lust in life and can create hot, dry winds.
Trickster ghosts (魅鬼; ) caused confusion in life and can transform into animals.
Venomous ghosts (蠱毒鬼; ) were hateful to others in life and can transform into insects.
Pestilence ghosts (疠鬼; ) harbored grudges in life and can cause disease and decay.
Hungry Ghosts (饿鬼; ) were arrogant in life and can take on gaseous forms.
Nightmare ghosts (魘鬼; ) were frauds in life and can transform into pure darkness.
Goblin ghosts (魍魉鬼; ) were corrupted by their desire for insight in life and are formed from the essential energy within rocks and trees.
Servant ghosts (役使鬼; ) were corrupted by their desire for accomplishment in life and can transform into blinding light.
Messenger ghosts (传送鬼; ) were litigious in life and can transform into any person.

Another classification is mentioned in A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms (翻譯名義集; Fānyì Míngyì Jí). There are nine types of hungry ghosts, all divided into three main classes:^[16]^[17]

Ghosts without means (無財鬼; ):
- Torch-mouth ghosts (炬口鬼; ) have mouths like burning torches.
- Needle-mouth ghosts (針口鬼; have mouths no bigger than needles, so they cannot satisfy their hunger or thirst.
- Foul-mouth ghosts (臭口鬼; ) have vile breath, disgusting even to themselves.
Ghosts with small means (少財鬼; ):
- Needle-hair ghosts (針毛鬼; ) have hair like iron needles, distressing to themselves and others.
- Smelly-hair ghosts (臭毛鬼; ) have spike-like hair that emits an awful odor.
- Tumour ghosts (癭鬼; ) have large goiters on whose pus they must feed.
Ghosts with excessive means (多財鬼; ):
- Ghosts hoping for offerings (希祀鬼; ) live on sacrificial offerings, usually from their descendants.
- Ghosts hoping for leavings or ghosts that inhale energy (吸氣鬼; 希棄鬼; ) eat any human leftovers, and can even devour the qi of living beings.
- Ghosts of great powers (大勢鬼; ) are powerful rulers of ghosts (like yakshas, rakshasas, pishachas, etc.), who are perpetually aggressive and violent.

BELIEFS ON HOW TO SEE GHOST

2020-05-20T13:59:00.002+08:00

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Dog tears

It is said that when using dog tears to rub around your lower eye lids, blink a few times and let tears enter your eyes and soon you can see the ghosts?
As people believes animals can see ghosts. Who suggested using dogs tears to help you see ghost???

Wipe charcoal into the eyes

This method is done with rubbing charcoal into the eyelids and pockets of your eyes until dark. Come to haunted places such as graves or big trees. In that way, various spirits ranging from tuyul, kuntilanak, pocong, to genderuwo become visible in the vision.

Dress and wear a funeral shirt or dress while sleeping

This method is quite extreme. For that, it should be done with the supervision of others. Namely by wearing formal funeral clothes, try the selected clothes are black. After that rub your hands around the clothes and sleep as usual. In this way, you will look like one of them, so maybe there is a member of that other world who will be visiting and greeting you.

Call them out with a candle

This is a most ancient and creepy way. First turn off all house lights at 01:00. Try to be alone, with no one else. Light a candle on the floor of the room

Sell salt at the cemetery

A well-known way for someone to make contact with ghosts. They sell salts to ghosts and apparently they will pay you for money! The ghosts will pay you for the salt with random items or hell money. These will turn into normal money upon sunrise!!!???

Skin apple at midnight

Go to a mirror before midnight. Take a red apple and start peeling the skin off with a knife in a continuous motion. You cannot break the skin or else you will not be able to see any ghosts.

Bend down forward & look between your legs

If you look between your legs you can see ghosts?
In Thai -ถ้าก้มมองลอดใต้หว่างขา คุณจะเห็นผี

ถ้า if
ก้มมอง bend down and look
ลอด through
ใต้ under
หว่าง between
ขา legs
คุณ you
จะ will
เห็น see
ผี ghost

Other methods

Getting a corneal transplant from a person who can see ghosts
Playing ouija or a similar game
Tapping chopsticks on a bowl filled with food at a road intersection at night to attract hungry ghosts
Playing hide-and-seek at night while carrying a black cat
Rubbing dirt from a grave on your eyes
Opening an umbrella indoors
Brushing your hair at midnight in front of a mirror
Whistling at night is believed to attract ghosts
getting a Master or Medium to open your “third eyes”

CEMETERIES WEIRD TOMBS

2020-05-14T12:52:00.004+08:00

Cemeteries full of those commemorated forever with some seriously weird tombstones, headstones, and grave markers.

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My Real Ghost Stories Ep 06

2020-05-13T15:42:00.003+08:00

MYSTERY, THE ANCIENT CITY OF “VERY LITTLE” OR SMALL PEOPLE

2020-05-10T22:27:00.002+08:00

The ancient Iranin city of Makhunik is an ancient Iranian city unearthed in the desert of the Shahdad, Kermanprovince, in the 1940s.

It is now known as Shahr-e Kotouleha (City of Dwarfs). However, since it’s discovery, the city of Makhunik has been called many things, The home of the Little People, City of the Dwarf, and Little Sky Mans Land.

The village is strange for a number of reasons – firstly, according to Iran Daily, “nobody thought an ancient civilization could exist in this desert until 1946”.

Therefore the village discovery created quite a buzz amongst archeologists in the 1940’s given the unexpectedness of the find.

A group of archeologists visited the area and conducted studies that led to the discovery of civilizations belonging to prehistoric times (end of 4th millennium BC and beginning of 3rd millennium BC).

Shahdad’s ancient region is spread over 60 kilometers in the heart of Lut Desert. The city includes workshops, residential districts and cemeteries. Archeological studies in the residential district in depth and revealed the presence of sub-districts in which jewelers, craftsmen and farmers lived.

Over 800 ancient graves have been excavated during the first excavation phases. Every grave has contained the evidence of little people, including the mummified remains of a dwarf.

A significant aspect about the city is the strange architecture of the houses, alleys and advanced equipment discovered.

Within the city, the houses walls, ceiling, furnaces, shelves all seem to be made for little people and all the equipment discovered could only be used by dwarfs.

Soon after the discovery of City of Dwarfs in Shahdad and stories about peoples who lived there, rumors circulated about the discovery of a dwarf’s remains, and alien evidence. Rumours also followed about discovery of a crash UFO

According to Dr Susan Martinez, author of ‘The History of the Little People: Spiritually Advanced Civilizations around the World’, an ancient race of people who were small in stature once inhabited the Earth. She refers to legends and stories from many cultures, such as the dwarf gods of Mexico and Peru, the Menhune of Hawaii, the Nunnehi of the Cherokee, as well as African Pygmies and the Semang of Malaysia, and draws upon discoveries of tiny tunnel networks, small coffins, low doorways in mounds, and pygmy-sized huts, as evidence of this ancient race.

Source :
https://coolinterestingstuff.com/makhunik-the-ancient-city-of-very-little-people-with-an-alien-link

The mummified remains

The Native American little people have been said to reside in the Pryor Mountains of Montana and Wyoming. The Pryors are famous for their “fairy rings” and strange happenings. Some members of the Crow tribe consider the little people to be sacred ancestors and require leaving an offering for them upon entry to the area.

The Natives people of North America told legends of a race of “little people” who lived in the woods near sandy hills and sometimes near rocks located along large bodies of water, such as the Great Lakes. Often described as “hairy-faced dwarfs” in stories, petroglyph illustrations show them with horns on their head and traveling in a group of 5 to 7 per canoe.

Native legends often talk of the little people playing pranks on people, such as singing and then hiding when an inquisitive person searches for the music. It is often said that the little people love children and would take them away from bad or abusive parents or if the child was without parents and left in the woods to fend for themselves.

Other legends say the little people if seen by an adult human would beg them not to say anything of their existence and would reward those who kept their word by helping them and their family out in times of need. From tribe to tribe there are variations of what the little people’s mannerisms were like, and whether they were good or evil may be different.

One of the common beliefs is that the little people create distractions to cause mischief. They were believed to be gods by some. One North American Native tribe believed that they lived in nearby caves.The caves were never entered for fear of disturbing the little people.

Legends of physical remains of tiny people being found in various locations in the western United States, particularly Montana and Wyoming, typically describe the remains as being found in caves with various details such as descriptions that they were “perfectly formed”, dwarf-size, etc. Archeolgist Lawrence L. Loendorf notes that “The burials, of course, are always sent to a local university or to the Smithsonian for analysis, only to have both the specimens and research results disappear.” Loendorf also suggests that the discovery of two mummies of anencephalic infants in the first half of the twentieth century with deformities that caused some people to believe they were adults has “contributed to public belief in the existence of a group of tiny prehistoric people.”

A graveyard unearthed in the 1830s in Coshocton County, Ohio, was believed to contain skeletons belonging to a pygmy race. In fact, the graves (which were roughly 3 feet (0.91 m) long) were “bone burials” containing disarticulated or bent bones packed together.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_people_(mythology)#Native_American_little_people

ANNABELLE THE REAL DOLL

2020-05-08T12:55:00.008+08:00

In 1970 a young woman who was studying to be a nurse, received a raggedy Anne doll from her mother. Raggedy Anne is a character that appeared in a series of books for young children. Raggedy Ann has red yarn for hair and a triangle nose. The character was made into a doll in 1915.

Delighted with her beautiful present, Donna decided to place it in her bedroom at college. Donna and her friend shared accommodation, they would often invite their friends round for supper.

One evening when Donna was showing off her Raggedy Anne doll to their friend Lou, their apartment was suddenly engulfed with a strange atmosphere, an energy shift.

The doll was supposedly haunted by a spirit of a young girl named ” Annabelle Higgins” However that being said, Demons or other such spirits often pretend to be the spirits of little children so that they can lure there victim into a false sense of security. This can be physical, mental, and psychical in nature and is designed to break the affected person’s will to live. Sleep deprivation, increased paranormal activity, bites, scratches, and even sexual assaults may take place).

Donna and her friend returned home one evening to find the rag doll standing upright and leaning against a chair in the dining room, as if it had frozen mid-step when it heard the door open. ““The doll also changed rooms by itself. We came home one night and the Annabelle doll was sitting in a chair by the front door. It was kneeling! The funny thing about it was, when we tried to make the doll kneel, it’d just fall over. It couldn’t kneel. Other times we’d find it sitting on the sofa, although when we left the apartment in the morning it’d be in Donna’s room with the door closed!”

In desperation they went to the infamous paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, who after much investigation decided it, was best to take the doll of them so they would not be affected by it anymore.

Throughout the decades Ed and Lorraine Warren have collected many possessed items from infamous cases. So that no harm could come to the general public, they decided to store the items in their shed, and even have a Priest come once a month to bless the room.

One day a young boy went to see the items with his girlfriend, Annabelle the doll is preserved in a glass case in the museum, under a red neon light, her black eyes seem to follow guests around the room, almost as if she is watching them! The young man, who after hearing the story about how the museum acquired Annabelle, started to make fun of the story to his partner. “This is a load of rubbish!” he apparently exclaimed. When Tony Spera was not looking (He is the son in law to Lorraine Warren and Ed Warren) the man went up to Annabelle and started tapping violently on the glass, provoking the spirit that inhabited the doll to do something if it was real. Shortly after they were asked to leave by Ed Warren…

One hour later the young man died due to losing control of his motorbike and crashing into a tree, his girlfriend survived, according to her the last image she saw in her head before the accident was of the doll. An omen?

Source :
https://supernaturalmagazine.com/articles/annabelle-the-doll

Ed Warren tells the real story of "Annabelle "

INDONESIA GHOSTS

2020-05-06T21:31:00.002+08:00

Other Ghosts / Urban Legends

Wewe Gombel

Wewe Gombel also called Grandma Gombel is a term in Javanese tradition, which means evil spirit or a ghost who likes to kidnap the children, but does not harm them.

According to the story, the myth of Gombel Wewe was used to scare children so they do not wander around at night. Because in the past, the dark is very dangerous since wild animals may enter the village in darkness. Therefore, Wewe Gombel was created to save them from the threat. Wewe Gombel usually depicted as a wrinkled old lady figure with breasts that looks long and hanging.

Sundel bolong

In folklore, Sundel Bolong is said to be the soul of a woman who died when she was pregnant and therefore gave birth in her grave, or who died during childbirth and the baby came out from her back (this is the reason why the hole was created in her back) which is concealed from men by her long black hair.

Sundel Bolong is also said to be a sensitive spirit and, if rejected by a man, she is said to castrate him.

In Indonesia mythology, Sundel Bolong are the spirits of women who were raped and murdered.

Sundel Bolongs according to myth, also likes to steal babies who are born recently (probably to eat them).

Sundel Bolongs are reportedly ashamed of the holes on their back and would always try to cover it up with their hair. Sundel Bolongs are said to manifest as a beautiful woman walking alone on the road. Probably the myth was first created and deployed on the archipelago to scare men (specifically rapists) into avoiding women walking alone in the countryside at night who are intent of doing evil things.

Suster ngesot

Another famous ghost in Indonesia is called Suster Ngesot. Suster means nurse and ngesotmeans crawling.

She known as Suster Nira in Semarang and Suster Gepeng in Surabaya.

Noone knows her real name, but here is her story:

Once upon a time a beautiful female nurse was working the night shift in an old hospital.

The night was quiet and as she walked to the laboratory the doctor on duty sprung on her and raped her.

He then mutilated her legs so she couldn’t walk and had to crawl with her hands while dragging what was left of her legs behind her.

She died that night and has haunted hospital corridors ever since.

Most people agree that the hospital was Cipto Mangunkusumo Public Hospital (RSCM) in Jakarta, because that was the last place Suster was allegedly seen alive. But another story claims she was a Dutch nurse who was gang-raped and as she fought back the injuries she got caused her feet to be amputated.

Another myth claims Suster Ngesot first appeared at a nursing home in West Java. There was a half Dutch, half Indonesian nurse named Norah who had a sixth sense that she used to kill the patients to avenge a past wrong done to her. People crushed her legs and thus she became Suster Ngesot.

Palasik

Believed to be a manifestation of high-level black magic witches in some areas in Sumatra, Indonesia. Palasiks are known as blood sucking creatures. The Palasiks eats infants while they are still in their mother’s womb or a newborn baby. They are often seen digging on a dead baby’s grave.

Many believed that being a Palasik is hereditary. When someone in a family is known as a Palasik practitioner, their son or daughter will become a Palasik too. To maintain their secrecy, their community would hold unholy rituals to mate and wed their children to other Palasiks and live in secluded villages far from others. The curse of a Palasik through the practice of witchcraft can persist through seven generations

Palasik practitioners appear to be a normal people in general. The difference is when they begin to release their heads along with their internal organs to reveal their original appearance. In an attempt to end this evil, entire families of the curse would be either banished or executed.

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ELECTRONIC MAGNETIC FIELDS VS MY BLACK OBSIDIAN BRACELET AND BLACK TOURMALINE STONE

2020-05-06T17:28:00.000+08:00

Japan shrine protecting souls of children and unborn babies

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Kawakura Sainokawara Jizoson Reidaisai

The temple is well-known for not only its hall of dolls, but also its annual festival in which guests can come and speak with the spirits of these children. During the Kawakura Sainokawara Jizoson Reidaisai Festival, which is held every summer, shamans called Itako come to the temple in order to act as spiritual mediums between visitors and the deceased. The Itako typically do this by going into a trance, during which time the spirit of the deceased will often jump into the shaman’s body and speak directly through them, called Kuchi Yose. The festival is very popular, bringing in people from all over Japan to speak to the dead among the statues wearing the clothes of dead children.

Walking along a quaint path to the temple grounds, one can see numerous stone statues lining the trail, which are said to enshrine the guardian spirit called Jizō, and are already both creepy and beautiful at the same time. Yet, it is when one enters the temple itself, which enshrines around 2,000 Jizō statues, and enters the Guardian Deity hall that things get interesting. In the center of the hall is the shrine for the guardian spirit, who is tasked with protecting the souls of deceased children and unborn babies, and around it is an array of countless Jizō dolls dedicated to these dead children, complete with pictures of the deceased, toys, and dressed in clothes and shoes which the kids were using when they were alive, all donated by the families.

The Enfield Poltergeist

2020-05-04T14:43:00.000+08:00

Caught by a remote camera during the early hours, the image above is one of many documenting the case of the ‘Enfield Poltergeist‘ which occurred in suburban North London during the late 1970s.

The Enfield poltergeist was a claim of supernatural activity at 284 Green Street, a council house in Brimsdown, Enfield, London, England, between 1977 and 1979 involving two sisters, aged 11 and 13.

In August 1977 single parent Peggy Hodgson called police to her rented home in Enfield , claiming she had witnessed furniture moving and that two of her four children said that knocking sounds were heard on walls. The children included Margaret, age 13, and Janet, 11.

A police constable said that she saw a chair "wobble and slide" but “could not determine the cause of the movement”. Later claims included disembodied voices, loud noises, thrown toys, overturned chairs, and children levitating.

Over a period of 18 months, more than 30 people, including neighbours, psychic researchers and journalists, said they variously saw heavy furniture moving of its own accord, objects being thrown across a room and the daughters seeming to levitate several feet off the ground. Many also heard and recorded knocking noises and a gruff voice.

GHOST SKELETOR PHOTOGRAPH CAPTURED IN 2003

2020-05-03T12:04:00.000+08:00

During late 2003, an alarm was activated indicating that a set of fire-doors had been opened- yet staff found the exit firmly closed and nobody in the vicinity.

But when examined the CCTV footage suggested a very different story, showing a bizarre figure quickly flinging and slamming the doors. Other cameras focused on the area behind the doors showed the building to be empty.

The doors opened by themselves again the next day, although no figure was present this time. Around the same time, a visitor to Hampton Court noted in the guest book that she’d glimpsed a mysterious figure…

Dr Richard Wiseman, an expert in debunking ghostly photographs is stumped by the footage “it could be the best ghost sighting ever…I haven’t seen anything that would match that at all.”

The Skeletor figure made headlines around the world, and it is reported that some staff at Hampton Court are now reluctant to work within the supposedly haunted area.

THE OKIKU HAUNTED DOLL SHRINE

2020-05-02T16:35:00.000+08:00

The Okiku haunted doll shrine

One of the most famous and indeed spookiest of Japan’s odd dolls is one that is supposedly haunted. The tale of an infamous doll known as the Okiku doll begins in 1918, when a boy purchased it while on a trip to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido to give to his little sister, Okiku. The overjoyed little girl was smitten with the doll, and played with it every day, even going so far as to name it after herself, Okiku. The two were reportedly inseparable and went everywhere together until tragedy struck the following year and Okiku fell gravely ill. The girl soon died from complications of severe influenza and fever, and the mourning family placed her beloved doll in a family altar in memory of their daughter.

The mourning family placed her beloved doll in a family altar for remembrance of their daughter, and that’s when things started getting strange. They soon noticed that the doll’s hair getting longer, which continues to grow despite frequent trimming. They took this as a sign that their daughter left her spirit in the doll. In 1938, Okiku’s family decided to move from Hokkaido but they felt that it would be best for Okiku’s spirit to remain on the island where she had spent her life. So that they entrusted the doll to the monks at Mannenji Temple, where it is still on display.

Some sources also claim that a number of scientific tests reveal the doll’s hair is indeed of the human child and it’s said to be still growing as usual. Nobody has been able to explain why or how it’s happening. Whereas, many even claim another strange thing about “Okiku the Doll” that if you get close enough to it and look into its half-open mouth, you can see its growing teeth!! Nowadays, “Okiku the Doll” has long hair flowing down all the way to its knees, and visitors often come to the Mannenji Temple for seeing its legendary human hair, but they are not allowed to photograph it.

This does not necessarily point to a supernatural origin. What is going on with this doll? Is this some sort of trick or are there paranormal forces we don’t understand compelling its hair to perpetually grow? Who knows?

Awashima Jinja Wakayama Japan - Japanese Shrine for Dolls

2020-05-02T15:28:00.000+08:00

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AwASHIMA JINJA IS A SHRINE for women and is famous for its enormous collection of dolls

Every year on March 3rd, Awashima jinja is home to a doll festival called nagashi bina, in which boatloads of hina ningyo are launched into the ocean. As the boats are rocked by the waves, the dolls fall overboard and sink into the ocean. It is believed that the dolls will take away the sicknesses and bad luck afflicting their former owners, and the ritual has become very popular.

On this day every year, families set up a special step-altar on which to arrange their Emperor and Empress dolls, called "hina" in Japanese. They decorate this altar with boughs of peach blossoms and make offerings to the hina dolls of freshly made rice cakes (mochi), either flavored with a wild herb or colored and cut into festive diamond shapes.

Awashima jinja is mainly for hina ningyo, dolls that are given to young girls to be displayed every year on Girl’s Day, March 3rd. The festival dates back to 1687 and is a time for praying for the health and happiness of a family’s daughters. Awashima jinja’s collection is not limited to hina ningyo, however. There are literally thousands of dolls here, and an even greater number of sculptures, figurines, carvings, and statues. You’ll find tanuki, maneki neko, daruma, frogs, yoshitsune, shichi fukujin, and many more.

Real-life 'Conjuring' house to be livestreamed

2020-05-01T21:05:00.000+08:00

The house was recently bought by Cory Heinzen and his wife Jennifer. Image Credit: Facebook / Cory Heinzen

An inhuman spirit, according to 2013’s The Conjuring, is “something that’s never walked the Earth in human form. It’s something demonic.” And The Dark Zone, a new online community that “embraces the vast spectrum of all things paranormal” wants to lock you in a house with it for a whole week. Figuring it may be the only thing scarier than the coronavirus, the network will present a weeklong livestream from the real Conjuring House. The House Live will stream as a free preview on Friday, May 8, with the full broadcast starting at noon ET, on Saturday, May 9 and running 24/7 for an entire week.

The family will conduct paranormal investigations, seances, and Ouija board sessions. The house itself will be rigged with multiple cameras so the audience “will get an immersive and interactive look inside the real conjuring house,” promises The Dark Zone’s website. “When paranormal activity happens, you’ll see it LIVE.” The global broadcast gives audiences the opportunity to interact with the Heinzen family in real-time, and act as remote ghost hunters. While the feed runs, viewers can report any strange activity they see directly to the family.
It costs $4.99 to view a 24-hour session of The House Live broadcast, the whole week costs $19.99. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to COVID-related charities. Discounted advance tickets will be available May 1.
The House can be viewed exclusively on the world’s first and only paranormal-themed OTT platform, The Dark Zone Network, which calls itself a one-stop-shop for all things paranormal.

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https://www.denofgeek.com/culture/the-dark-zone-conjuring-house-live-stream/

Vampires

2020-04-29T14:02:00.000+08:00

A vampire is a creature from forklore that subsists by feeding on blood of the living. Vampires are undead creatures.

Vampiric entities have been recorded in many cultures. The term vampire was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria of a pre-existing folk belief in the Balkans and Eastern europe that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism. Local variants in Eastern Europe were also known by different names, such as shtriga in Albania, vrylolakas in Greece and strigol in Romania.

The Oxford English dictionary dates the first appearance of the English word vampire (as vampyre) in English from 1734, in a travelogue titled Travels of Three English Gentlemen published in The Herlian Miscellany in 1745. Vampires had already been discussed in French and German Literature After Austria gained control of northern Serbia and Oltenia in 1718, officials noted the local practice of exhuming bodies and “killing vampires”.These reports, prepared between 1725 and 1732, received widespread publicity.

Early folk belief in vampires has sometimes been ascribed to the ignorance of the body’s process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalize this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death.

Vampires can also be created by a malevolent spirit possessing a corpse or by being bitten by a vampire. Belief in such legends became so pervasive that in some areas it caused mass hysteria.

Vampires properly originating in folklore were widely reported from Eastern Europe in the late 17th and 18th centuries. These tales formed the basis of the vampire legend that later entered Germany and England, where they were subsequently embellished and popularized. One of the earliest recordings of vampire activity came from the region of Istria in modern Crotia, in 1672. Local reports cited the local vampire Jure Grando of the village Kronga as the cause of panic among the villagers. A former peasant, Jure died in 1656. Local villagers claimed he returned from the dead and began drinking blood from the people and sexually harassing his widow. The village leader ordered a stake to be driven through his heart, but when the method failed to kill him, he was subsequently beheaded with better results.

During the 18th century, there was a frenzy of vampire sightings in Eastern Europe, with frequent stakings and grave diggings to identify and kill the potential revenants. Even government officials engaged in the hunting and staking of vampires.

The belief in vampires increased dramatically, resulting in a mass hysteria throughout most of Europe. The panic began with an outbreak of alleged vampire attacks in East Prussia in 1721 and in the Habsburg Monarchy from 1725 to 1734, which spread to other localities. Two infamous vampire cases, the first to be officially recorded, involved the corpses of Peter Blagojevich and Miloš Čečar from Serbia. Blagojevich was reported to have died at the age of 62, but allegedly returned after his death asking his son for food. When the son refused, he was found dead the following day. Blagojevich supposedly returned and attacked some neighbours who died from loss of blood.

The two incidents were well-documented. Government officials examined the bodies, wrote case reports, and published books throughout Europe. The hysteria, commonly referred to as the “18th-Century Vampire Controversy”, raged for a generation. The problem was exacerbated by rural epidemics of so-called vampire attacks, undoubtedly caused by the higher amount of superstition that was present in village communities, with locals digging up bodies and in some cases, staking them.

Beings having many of the attributes of European vampires appear in the folklore of Africa, Asia, North and South America, and India. Classified as vampires, all share the thirst for blood.

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Vampires have appeared in Japanese cinema since the late 1950s; the folklore behind it is western in origin.The Nukekubi is a being whose head and neck detach from its body to fly about seeking human prey at night.^[Legends of female vampiric beings who can detach parts of their upper body also occur in the Philipppines, Malaysia and indonesia. There are two main vampiric creatures in the Philippines: the Tagalog Mandurugo (“blood-sucker”) and the Visayan Manananggal  (“self-segmenter”). The mandurugo is a variety of the aswang that takes the form of an attractive girl by day, and develops wings and a long, hollow, threadlike tongue by night. The tongue is used to suck up blood from a sleeping victim.The manananggal is described as being an older, beautiful woman capable of severing its upper torso in order to fly into the night with huge batlike wings and prey on unsuspecting, sleeping pregnant women in their homes. They use an elongated proboscislike tongue to suck fetuses from these pregnant women.

The Malaysian Penanggalan is a woman who obtained her beauty through the active use of black magicor other unnatural means, and is most commonly described in local folklore to be dark or demonic in nature. She is able to detach her fanged head which flies around in the night looking for blood, typically from pregnant women.Malaysians hung jeruju (thistles) around the doors and windows of houses, hoping the Penanggalan would not enter for fear of catching its intestines on the thorns.

The Leyak is a similar being from Balinese folklore of Indonesia.

A  Kuntilanak or Matianak in Indonesia, or Pontianak or Langsuir in Malaysia.

“Jiangshi” sometimes called “Chinese vampires” by Westerners, are reanimated corpses that hop around, killing living creatures to absorb life essence (qi) from their victims. They are said to be created when a person’s soul fails to leave the deceased’s body.

MAE NAK, THAILAND’S MOST FAMOUS GHOST

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“Mae Nak Phra Khanong” (meaning “Lady Nak of Phra Khanong”) or simply “Mae Nak”

Country: Thailand

This legend tells the story of a pregnant woman named Nak. She had an undying love for her husband Mak, who was sent away to war. While he was gone, Nak and their child died during childbirth. When Mak returns home, however, he finds his loving wife and child waiting for him. Neighbors who try to warn him that he’s living with ghosts are all killed.

Through a mixture of the neighborly rumors and strange occurrences at home (such as seeing Nak stretch her arm abnormally out), he finally realized that he was living with ghosts.

Mak eventually fled and took refuge in Wat Mahabut (a temple and holy ground which ghosts cannot enter), which enraged Nak so much that she haunted the region and people of Phra Khanong until she was eventually captured by an exorcist – who imprisoned her spirit in an earthen jar and tossed it into the river.

There are differing versions of the rest of the story. In one, an old couple new to Phra Khanong finds the jar while fishing; in another two fishermen dredge up the jar. Nak is freed when they opened it.

Nak is conquered again by the venerable monk Somdet Phra Phutthachan (To Phrommarangsi). The learned monk confines her spirit in the bone of her forehead and binds it in his waistband.

Later, a shrine dedicated to Mae Nak was constructed in Wat Maha. In 1997, the shrine was relocated to the nearby Suan Luang District of modern Bangkok.

A statue of Mae Nak and her infant form the centerpiece of the shrine. Devotees often make offerings, accompanied by a request for help, generally by women seeking easy childbirth or for their husband to be exempted from military conscription.Offerings are usually lengths of colored cloth, wrapped around the trunk of the Bo Tree. Other offerings include fruit, lotuses, and incense sticks.

Toys for her child and portraits of the ghost are displayed in the shrine’s inner sanctum. A collection of fine dresses offered to her are displayed behind her statue.

Offerings are also made at Phra Khanong Canal, where fish purchased live at markets are brought in buckets to the edge of the canal and freed. Stalls at the shrine sell toys, fish, lotus buds, incense sticks, and garlands for those who wish to make an offering.

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“The Siam Prabheth”, Real Document The Time and After Mae Nak Phra Khanong was alive

Thai ghost Krasue

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In Thailand, Krasue is believed to be a cursed individual (usually a female) who engaged in various sins and fraudulent conducts during her previous life. After she dies, her sins causes her to be reborn as a phuti (Thai: ภูติ) that has to live off wasted, uncooked or rotten food.

This spirit moves about by hovering in the air above the ground, for it has no lower body. The organs below the head usually include the heart and the stomach with a length of intestine.
The Krasue is also found in the popular mythology of Malaysia, where it is called as the balan-balan, penanggalan or hantu penanggal, and also in Indonesia where it has many names such as Levak , Palasik, Selaq Metem, Kuyang, Poppo, and Parakang.

The Krasue is under a curse that makes it ever hungry and always active in the night when it goes out hunting to satisfy its gluttony, seeking blood to drink or raw flesh to devour.

It may attack cattle or chicken in the darkness, drinking their blood and eating their internal organs. It may also prey on pieces of cattle, such as water buffalo that have died of other causes during the night. If blood is not available the Krasue may eat feces or carrion. Clothes left outside would be found soiled with blood and excrement in the morning, allegedly after she had wiped her mouth.

Therefore, villagers would not leave clothes hanging to dry outside during the night hours.

There is a legend said that the people who are wounded should be aware of the Krasue because it can smell the blood and will come to eat the blood at night when people fall asleep. However, there are ways to prevent the Krasue from coming inside the house. House-owners usually build spiky fences or grow spiky bamboo to protect themselves from the Krasue. Krasue is scared of spiky things because its intestine might get stuck and it could not escape.

21st century sightings

On the night of 22 July 2008, about 11:27 p.m, CCTV footage of a lemonade factory in Nong Suea District, Pathum Thani Province captured quite clearly an alleged Krasue. The Krasue appears near one side of the factory wall adjacent to the field.

When a smartphone's camera was used to take a shot of the CCTV footage in order to zoom at it closer, an old woman living alone in that area was seen in the image. Local people insist that they see strange lights and hear strange sounds at night for about a year. However, when the old woman seen in the image died, sightings of the Krasue reportedly stopped.
Strange red lights floating up the paddy fields in the area of Phachi District, Ayutthaya Province, near Wat Tako were sighted in mid-June 2014 and was believed to be from a Krasue.

Soon after, hundreds of teenagers (in some nights ranging to thousands) flocked in the area reportedly to prove the truth. This has caused damage to this field. The landlord insists that there are no Krasue here and the lights seen were actually a floating lantern bird chaser.
The death of a great number of chickens from mysterious circumstances at a farm in Nakhon Luang District, Ayutthaya Province, on the night of 4 October 2015 was blamed by local villagers on the activity of the Krasue.
In February 2016, at Ban Don Pho Thong, Mueang Suphan Buri District, Suphan Buri Province, some villagers found strange lights floating at night which they believed to be a Krasue. This news has caused many people to panic.
In May 2016, villagers at Ban Khok Ta Kerd, Mueang Surin District, Surin Province saw strange green and red lights rising up and down the paddy fields at night.
In early August 2016 at Ban Song Yang, Mueang Amnat Charoen District, Amnat Charoen Province, video clips from smartphone cameras shot by individuals in the area showed red lights floating at night, believed to be a Krasue.
At approximately 9:30 p.m., on 13 September 2016, CCTV footage from a house in the Tha Ruea District, Ayutthaya Province, captured strange lights. The woman owner of the house who first reviewed the CCTV footage said she was watching television at that time and she heard a loud barking dog. She went out to check the source of the sound but she did not see anything, so she looked at the CCTV monitor. She saw the strange lights which she watched for almost an hour, until the lights floated in the fence of her house and moved near the chicken coop and the star goosberry tree.
By the end of 2016, one image has been shared on online social networks in Thailand. The image was shot in Buachet District, Surin Province, and shows an entity that looks like a human's face on a tree at night nearby a light. The image is believed to be depicting a Krasue.
In early 2017, at Ban Lao Luang, Mueang Kalasin District, Kalasin Province, a stampede occurred and villagers rode in motorcycles to go to the area where an individual shot a video showing red lights floating at 100 meters above the ground. The video shows that the light has already floated away.

Souces : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasue

Malay Ghost Names

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There are many kinds of beliefs in this world about the types of ghosts. One of the more popular types of ghosts in our local culture are the Malay ghosts. Of course, there are also the Chinese ghosts, English ghosts and even Indian ghosts depending on your religion, race and beliefs. For example, a vampire is an English ghost version whereas Malays simply knows them as “pontianak” and Chinese as “Kiong Xi”.
Malays believe that ghosts are usually only active at night especially during the full moon where it is belief to be the most powerful time for the underworld. Of course, be it fact or just simply another Malaysian Urban Legend, we’ll never know. Below are a lists of the types of Malay Ghosts

Pontianak – also known as the vampire where it is belief that they are usually ladies dressed in white seeking for revenge. The pontianak is said to be the spirit of a woman died of childbirth. Most of the time, they can look very beautiful but if you look closely, she would have razor sharp teeth. They usually comes out after the sun sets searching for men or pregnant women (apparently, it is said that she could not bear the thought of other women being able to enjoy motherhood) to suck blood. Sometimes, they even eat the flesh of babies ripped out from their mother’s womb.
Toyol – these are actually ghostly kids that people adopt for the objective of stealing other people’s money. It is believed that this spirit is kept and preserved in a jar in a form of a foetus. Because the toyol is kept by people to do bidding, you have to feed it with blood everyday.
Polong – unsen ghost that can be used by black magic practitioners (bomoh) to harm someone
Pelesit – a ghost in the form of grasshopper used by bomohs to possess someone
Hantu Air – water ghost found usually in rivers, lakes and swimming pools. They are usually the victim of drowning
Kum Kum – an old witch who attacks young virgins to restore her youth and beauty
Hantu Raya – ghosts that acts as a double for the bomoh
Hantu Tetek – translates as Ghost Breast. This ghost is a female with huge breasts which is said to use it to suffocate her victims
Bunian – good ghost or jinns (genie) that is usually found in the jungle. Loves to help humans in trouble or in need.
Hantu Bungkus (Pocong) – ghost jumping around wrapped in white shroud
Hantu Bukit – ghosts that haunt the hilly areas.
Hantu Jepun – translates as Japanese ghost. Believed to appear wearing WW2 army attire carrying samurai swords. Usually found marching or if you are lucky, you can only hear the footsteps of marching. They are mostly headless
Hantu Pari Pari – fairy ghosts
Hantu Kubur – just like its direct translation of ghost cemetary. These ghosts are usually found haunting cemetaries
Orang Minyak – also known as “oily man”. They are usually seen all covered in black oil and is said to love rape virgins
Hantu Penanggalan (Hantu Tengelong) – Usually women studying black magic that has the ability to split its body from its head and fly around with its guts hanging around. It is said that its love to suck the blood of women during childbirth

My Real Ghost Stories Ep 05

2020-04-16T01:10:00.002+08:00