Hantu Demon
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A Hantu Demon is an evil spirit or demon.
They are notorious on the Philippines for possessing people and driving them insane.
Hantu is the Malay word for ghost and Pulau Hantu literally means ghost island.
There are many types of hantu.
- Hantu Ribut: storm demon
- Hantu Rimba: deep-forest demon
- Hantu Kubor: grave demon
- Hantu Belia: tiger demon
- Hantu Pusaka: Malaysian demon
- Hantu Kangkang: One haunts the gateway to the Istana Maziah in the Kuala Trengganu harbour.
- Hantu Jarang Gigi: ape men who roam the southern rainforests of Malaysia, known as ghosts with widely spaced teeth
- Hantu Pocong: Indonesian ghost that takes the form of a body enshrouded in coffin cloth. It comes from a burial ritual in Islam where the body is enshrouded in white coffin cloth (kain kafan in Indonesian). The body is tied at several places of the body to keep the coffin cloth during the transportion to the grave. When the body is laid down inside the grave, the tie keeping the coffin cloth should be removed. A dead body is said will become a pocong if the tie is not removed. The pocong will haunt until the tie is removed.
- Hantu Penyardin: Malaysian vampire
- Hantu Tinggi (in West Malaysia)
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