BY TRADITION

Balinese folklore

1 record of Balinese folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.

LeyakShapeshifter · IndonesiaIn Bali, a léyak (leyak) is not a separate monster species but a human practitioner of left-path knowledge believed to send a spirit-form by night—animal, fireball, or detached head with entrails—within living Hindu-Balinese cosmology of Rangda, Barong, and Calon Arang.