
Dosiye No. 059 kuri 446
Langsuyar
Yitwa kandi: 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
Yanditswe bwa mbere
1891
First attested in 1891; described by Walter William Skeat in Malay Magic (1900)Inkomoko
Malay
Maleziya, IndoneziyaIcyayiteye
Ibindi
A woman who dies in pregnancy or childbirth returns.Uko umuntu ahinduka zombi
A woman who died pregnant, in labour, or from the shock of a stillbirth.
Uko igenda
Iriruka
Flies; she is associated with owls and other night birds that settle on the roof of the house she attacks.Ubwenge
Ifite ubwenge
Intege nke
- 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
Yagaragaye bwa mbere ryari?
First attested in 1891; described by Walter William Skeat in Malay Magic (1900)
inyandiko zo ku kibuga
Ibyo amasoko avuga
Wayisiga wiruka?
Icyiciro cy'umuvuduko gishingiye ku buryo amasoko ayisobanura (iriruka), si igipimo.
Wowe, ugenda n'amaguru nka km/h 5
Wowe, wiruka buhoro nka km/h 10
Umuntu mukuru ufite imbaraga wiruka cyane nka km/h 24
Langsuyar nka km/h 24
Umunyonzi wihuta nka km/h 37
Amasoko
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