Polong
demonic intermediate Malay single tradition · 2
Invisible servant spirit from Malay tradition. Polong acts as a supernatural helper or familiar, unseen by ordinary sight.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Belief in the polong traces back to Malay animism before the introduction of monotheism.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Poltergeist, Pombero, Ponaturi, Pontianak, Poubi Lai, Pricolici, Psotnik, Psychai, Psyche, Bajang, Toyol, Hantu Raya, Pishacha, Preta, Pan, Penghou, Paasselkä devils, Pakhangba, Pamola, Panis, Patupairehe, Pegaeae, Perchta, Phi Tai Hong, Pillan, Pim-skwa-wagen-owad, Piru, Pita-skog, Pixie, Plakavac, Pok-wejee-men, Polevik, Pollo Maligno
- allied with
- Pelesit
Mentioned by
- Pishacha
- Preta
- Pan
- Penghou
- Paasselkä devils
- Pakhangba
- Pamola
- Panis
- Patupairehe
- Pegaeae
- Perchta
- Phi Tai Hong
- Pillan
- Pim-skwa-wagen-owad
- Piru
- Pita-skog
and 5 more
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“Polong (Malay) – Invisible servant spirit”
#5244 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Hantu Raya Polong Toyol”
#7931 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001