Has your lifetime been overwhelmed with terror tales of vampires, witches, werewolves, and zombies to the point that these overly familiar creatures are too boring to give you nightmares? Let’s face it — we’ve fallen into a repetitive freak funk, and we could really use some new ghouls to give us goosebumps. Fetus-licking bat torsos from the Philippines? Sure, why not! Corpse-craving Japanese greed ghosts? Sounds good to us! Gather ’round the campfire and lend us your ears, Halloweenies; we’ve scoured the ponds of Bohemia and the banana trees of Indonesia to bring you some of the globe’s finest frighteners. Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, we call this “The Tale of Other Cultures’ Creatures.” Read it after the jump.
Pontianak, Indonesia
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Next time you smell something wonderfully fragrant followed by a putrid stench, don’t be fooled — it’s probably a Pontianak. Having died during childbirth, Pontianaks return to the earth as undead creatures who just want to feast on the flesh of easily seduced men and pregnant women. These creepy beings take the form of eerily beautiful, long-haired ladies in white gowns whose cries notoriously warn of their presence — if loud, she’s far; if soft, you’re doomed. She’ll lure you with her beauty, then dig her sharp fingernails into your stomach to feed on your innards! And rip out your sex organs! Oh, and be wary of your beloved bananas, because daytime Pontianaks tend to hide their souls in banana trees. Tasty.
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I submit from Celtic mythology, the Kelpie.
Appears as a horse and invites children to ride on its back. The Kelpie’s skin then become adhesive, trapping the rider. Then it dives into the river, drowning the children, and proceeds to eat everything except the heart and liver.
Yuck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelpie
hahaaa,..i, actually suprised that the first myth is from my country…just some correction, it called Kuntilanak. Pontianak is a city in Indonesia. And yes, back in childhood time, it is scary!
This is great. If you’re in Australia, as well as avoiding snakes, crocodiles, spiders etc, you should definitely make sure you don’t get ambushed by a bunyip:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunyip
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Is the Leshy Canadian? Friend of bears, hater of man and mortal enemy to the lumberjack? It sounds like a Canadian urban legend.
without even seeing the name i know the first ghost is from my country, but it’s more popular as kuntilanak than pontianak actually, enever even once wanted to meet that creature…
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Notice….how many of these ghouls seem to be female? Probably a good reason for that, just saying.
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