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Langsuyar

A tún ń pè é ní: langsuir

The langsuyar is described as a female revenant of Malay belief, the returned form of a woman who died around childbirth. She preys on infants and pregnant women. Malay funeral practice for such deaths included loading the corpse with beads, eggs and needles to stop it rising. She is closely linked to the pontianak, which Skeat's informants defined as the dead child of the same tragedy.12

Bá a jà
Ìgbà àkọ́kọ́ tí a kọ sílẹ̀
1891
First attested in 1891; described by Walter William Skeat in Malay Magic (1900)
Orírun
Malay
Malaysia, Indonesia
Ohun tó fà á
Òmíràn
A woman who dies in pregnancy or childbirth returns.
Bí o ṣe di ọ̀kan
A woman who died pregnant, in labour, or from the shock of a stillbirth.
Bí ó ṣe ń rìn
Ó ń sáré
Flies; she is associated with owls and other night birds that settle on the roof of the house she attacks.
Làákàyè
Ọlọ́gbọ́n
Àwọn ibi tó lẹ̀
  • glass beads in the corpse's mouth, hens' eggs under the armpits and needles in the palms, so that she cannot shriek or fly
  • cutting her nails and hair and stuffing them into the hole in her neck, which tames her
  • gandasuli leaves

Ìgbà wo ló kọ́kọ́ farahàn?

First attested in 1891; described by Walter William Skeat in Malay Magic (1900)

àkọsílẹ̀ pápá

Ohun tí àwọn orísun sọ

1

Appears as a beautiful woman in green with ankle-length hair and very long nails12

2

Her hair hides a hole in the back of her neck12

3

Prefers the blood of newborn boys12

4

Once tamed she can live for years as a wife and mother, until she dances at a village feast and flies off12

5

The name is derived from a Malay word for eagle12

Ṣé o lè sá fún un?

Ẹ̀ka ìyára láti bí àwọn orísun ṣe ṣàpèjúwe rẹ̀ (ó ń sáré), kì í ṣe ìwọ̀n.

Ìwọ, ní rírìn nǹkan bí 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ìwọ, ní eré òwúrọ̀ nǹkan bí 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Àgbàlagbà alágbára tó ń sáré nǹkan bí 24 km/h (15 mph)
Langsuyar nǹkan bí 24 km/h (15 mph)
Ẹni tó ń gun kẹ̀kẹ́ lákọ̀ọ́kọ̀ nǹkan bí 37 km/h (23 mph)

Àwọn orísun

  1. Langsuyar - Wikipedia
  2. Vampire folklore by region - Wikipedia

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