THE CONCORDANCE

childbirth death

2 records across 2 traditions carry this current.

Asia & the Isles · 1

KuntilanakRevenant · IndonesiaThe Indonesian cousin of the Malay pontianak: a female revenant of pregnancy or childbirth death. Names are often used interchangeably; tellings and the city of Pontianak’s founding legend keep them entangled rather than identical.

South Asia · 1

BodilimaSpectre · Sri LankaIn Sinhalese folklore, the spirit of a woman who died in childbirth and was buried with the child still within her. A household and night wailer, related in kind to other South Asian childbirth revenants but locally named bodirima or bodilima.