Polong

obmar · Polong

Likewise the Polong, a Malay familiar spirit, is 'an exceedingly diminutive female figure or mannikin'.

THE LIVING FAIRY FAITH
CHAPTER III
AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF THE EVIDENCE

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Pour the blood of a murdered man into a bottle and recite the appropriate charm, and after seven or twice seven days a bird-like chirp will announce the presence of a Polong. Every day the owner must feed this familiar with blood from his or her finger. Its victim dies raving unless through his mouth the Polong will confess the name of its owner and of any malicious person who may have hired it from that owner.

Shaman, Saiva and Sufi
A Study of the Evolution of Malay Magic
by R. O. WINSTEDT
[1925]

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"Polong and pelsit are but other names for bajang, the latter is chiefly used in the State of Kedah, where it is considered rather chic to have a pelsit. A Kedah lady on one occasion, eulogising the advantage of possessing a familiar spirit (she said that amongst other things it gave her absolute control over her husband and the power of annoying people who offended her), thus described the method of securing this useful ally:

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The Polong is a kind of goblin.

THE VAMPIRE
HIS KITH AND KIN
by Montague Summers
London, K. Paul Trench, Trubner [1928]

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Polong: a creature, humanoid in appearance, no longer than an inch in size. This little oddity is made even stranger by its habit of acting only in unison with a familiar, known as the pelesit. The polong's familiar uses a razor-sharp tail to burrow a hole into the victim. When the hole is big enough, the pelesit chirps and the polong enters the body of the unfortunate one, who then goes insane. The victim usually rants and raves about cats.

The polong is neither formerly a human, nor a demon. One is created by collecting a murdered man's blood in a bottle. During the course of a week or more, incantations are uttered and spells are constantly cast upon the blood, and the polong will be created. When it is ready to emerge, it chirps just like the pelesit. At this stage, the creature's creator must nick his finger and stick it in the bottle every day to nourish his little monster. The polong obeys its master's orders to either kill the enemy, or drive them insane.

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