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In folklore, a revenant is a spirit or animated corpse that is believed to have been revived from death to haunt the living. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The word revenant is derived from the Old French word revenant ' returning ' (see also the related French verb revenir ' to come back ' ).
In both Malaysia and Indonesia, ghosts and the supernatural have long been the popular subject of stories in television, documentaries, film, and magazines like Mastika and Tok Ngah. The 1958 black-and-white horror movie Sumpah Orang Minyak is one of many films based on the orang minyak concept. It tells of a hunchback who through supernatural ...
In his book Malay Magic, Walter William Skeat, an English anthropologist, recorded the origins of the langsuyar myth, as told by Malays in Selangor: . The original Langsuir (whose embodiment is supposed to be a kind of night-owl) is described as being a woman of dazzling beauty, who died from the shock of hearing that her child was stillborn, and had taken the shape of the Pontianak.
The churel is typically described as "the ghost of an unpurified living thing", but because she is often said to latch on to trees, she is also called a tree-spirit. [1] According to some legends, a woman who dies very cruely will come back as a revenant churel for revenge, particularly targeting the males in her family.
A wiedergänger rises from its coffin. Copy from a 16th–century incunabulum now in the Bavarian State Library of Munich. In German, the term Wiedergänger (German pronunciation: [ˈviːdɐˌɡɛŋɐ] ⓘ) is a term for a revenant and different ghost phenomena from different cultural areas, meaning "re-walker", or by extension, "one who walks again"; cognate to Scandinavian gjenganger ("again ...
Gjenganger tries to claim a new victim for the sea, Thorvald Niss (1932) In Nordic folklore; Danish: genganger, Norwegian: gjenganger, Swedish: gengångare ("(a)gain-walker"), among more, is a term for a revenant, the spirit or ghost of a deceased from the grave, [1] meaning "someone which goes again", from the Scandinavian verb of "going again" (Swedish: gå igen) in the sense of a deceased ...
There are in man three things: 1. The body, or material being, analogous to the animals, and animated by the same vital principle; 2. The soul, or immaterial being, a spirit incarnated in the body; 3. The link which unites the soul and the body, a principle intermediary between matter and spirit.
The mythology of Indonesia is very diverse, the Indonesian people consisting of hundreds of ethnic groups, each with their own myths and legends that explain the origin of their people, the tales of their ancestors and the demons or deities in their belief systems. The tendency to syncretize by overlying older traditions with newer foreign ...