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Kelembai
A variant of the Gedembai legend is told on Pahang, where she was called Sang Kelembai. Here she is described as an ugly woman with thick eyebrows, a flat nose, big elephant ears, fanged ...
Gedembai
A long time ago there lived a strange creature on Langkawi, called Gedembai, who could turn any human or animal into anything she wished just by saying the words. If she said to someone ...
Charcoal Crunchers
A present-day Tzotzil tale tells why weird creatures called Charcoal Crunchers no longer exist. A long time ago, a man was married to a charcoal crunching wife. Every night her head would ...
gshed-ma
Tormenting demons that accompany Yama-Raja, the Lord of Death. If a person has lived a truly wicked live they will chase it down to be born in hell. One of the punishments they deliver is ...
Gua Langsuir
'Cave of the Sirens.' A famous cave on the island of Pulau Dayang Bunting (Malaysia). It overlooks a narrow sea channel between the island and the main island of Langkawi. The channel ...
puntianak
A female spirit in Malay folklore which feeds on human blood, particularly that of women giving birth. She waits her victims, usually men, along a lonely road or at the edge of the jungle ...
Makam Ajaib
A mysterious grave in the small village of Padang Matsirat (Langkawi, Malaysia). It is rumored to be the grave of Tun Jana Khatib who was executed by Paduka Seri Maharaja, the king of ...
tindalo
On the island of Florida in the Solomon Islands, a tindalo is the spirit or ghost of a dead man who in his lifetime possessed great mana or power. It was believed that the tindalo retained ...
mimi
Spirit beings who live in the rocks of western Arnhem Land. They are so thin that they do not dare to venture out when it's windy for fear that their necks will snap. The spirits are ...
Chester
Town of Roman origin on the Dee river. The "Deeside Camp" or Devana Castra was an army base nearby. The name eventually was shortened to Chester, or "the Camp". Cair Legion, or City of the ...
Cligés
The nephew of Gawain and hero of a romance by Chrétien de Troyes. He is rightful heir to the throne of Constantinople but, upon the death of his father, the throne is usurped by a kinsman ...
Morgause
The daughter of Ygerna and Gorlois, the Duke of Cornwall and therefore half-sister to Arthur. She marries Lot of Orkney and their sons are Gawain, Gaheris, Agravain, and Gareth. In the ...
Hinqumemen
A lake in British Columbia that is known as 'The Engulfer.' The indigenous peoples who live in the vicinity avoid it at all cost. It is believed that whoever draws water from the lake is ...
Churning of the Ocean
An event frequently mentioned in Hindu mythology. It refers to the legend that followed a great deluge in which many precious objects were lost. In order to recover them, Vishnu in his ...
Goloka
'Place of cows,' and 'heaven,' particularly Krishna's heaven. It is a later addition to the original seven lokas, the Vaishnava concept of a realm of eternal beauty and bliss. It is also ...
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