BY TRADITION
Indonesian folklore
3 records of Indonesian folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.
KuntilanakThe 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.PocongAn Indonesian ghost in the Islamic burial shroud. Folk belief holds that if the kain kafan’s ties are not undone in the grave, the dead may rise still wrapped. Hopping is a film sign; many accounts say a true pocong floats.Sundel BolongA Javanese and Indonesian female revenant: a woman who died pregnant or in childbirth, often after sexual violence, leaving a hole in her back. Distinct from kuntilanak though films blur them.
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