What Is “Pontianak”?
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Loading ...“Pontianak” is one of the most famous, scariest and violent ghost in the Malaysian culture. Primarily, the Malays believe that it originates from a still born child, women who dies while giving birth, women who were killed by the pontianak or their spirits captured by them. The phrase “Pontianak” was believed from the acronym of “Perempuan Mati Beranak” in the Malay language, meaning the woman death by childbirth. After such death, precautions are taken to prevent them from rising like
- Putting glass beads in the corpses mouth so that they can’t shriek
- Placing eggs under the corpses armpits so that they can’t fly
- Placing needles in their palms so that they can’t fly also (apparently the palm helps the pontianak to fly)
Pontianak usually announces its presence through baby cries or turn themselves into beautiful lady and frighten or kill the unlucky who enter or pass through their vicinity. It usually disguise itself as a beautiful young lady to attract its victim (usually male). Its presence sometimes can be detected by a nice floral fragrance of the ‘kemboja’ (a type of flower) followed by an awful stench afterwards. The distance of a pontianaks cries are very tricky. The Malays believe that if the cry is soft means that the pontianak is near and if it is loud then it must be far.
Want to know how a pontianak kills? It digs into your stomach with its long sharp fingernails and feed on it to survive. And want to know why we don’t hang our clothes at night outside the house? It’s because people believe that it sniffs your clothes to suck your blood.
It is also believed that the pontianak can be killed by plunging a nail down the back of its neck whereby it will transform the pontianak into a beatiful normal girl.
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My favorite type of Pontianak is the two-door Pontianak “Sunfire,” known for haunting bachelors and blue collar males going through mid-life crisises.
Commented by D-Max — November 10, 2005 @ 7:59 am
[…] Next morning, I told him before I met him, I heard footsteps following me. Sound of slipper being dragged. He said he saw a pontianak standing behind me about 10 metres away. She was smiling. She must have followed me from the carpark. Then I asked him about the dogs howling. He said not to worry cos if u can hear the dogs that can only mean that the “thing” is far away. But if the dog is whinning that means the “thing” is nearby. No more late nights for me. […]
Pingback by World Horror Stories » Someone follow me — January 3, 2006 @ 4:32 pm
Ok, that’s extremely creepy stuff. You can only find those things in Malaysia right? Not in the U.S?
Commented by Emily — July 9, 2007 @ 2:03 am
Ya, I think Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore only. The word “Pontianak” came from a Malay wording and only these 3 countries use this language. This type of ghost may exist in other countries but they use different term. ie. Dracula for Western.
Commented by Tony — July 9, 2007 @ 5:16 pm
Oh! Ok, that makes me feel a lot better. I don’t mind vampires. Just that pontianak thingy creeps me out.
Commented by Emily — July 10, 2007 @ 12:25 am
i have seen a pontianak
Commented by redsilk — September 22, 2007 @ 6:02 pm
freaky stuff man
Commented by juliejozor — December 1, 2007 @ 8:34 am
buset dah, kalau perempuan mati beranak itu bukan pontianak, tapi kuntilanak
Pontianak itu nama kota di kalimantan barat 
Commented by Freddy Hernawan — April 14, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
sometimes i’m a bit skeptical with anything about spirits but after accounting several incident like meeting them face to face,yes of course i was terrified but my fear was not for long cause i thought she was going kill me but instead she shook my hand and just dissappear right before my eyes. pontianak or kuntilanak does not killed but instead some died because of heart attack. folklore stories was made so that the youngsters will be afraid to go home late at night especially in village areas. don’t misjudged them by their scary looks but respect them as a super-natural being.
Commented by FUX — June 29, 2008 @ 2:34 am