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Episode 59: Penanggalan
Tonight we go under the floor of a Malay house on stilts, where the night smells of river mud and woodsmoke. This is episode 59 the Penanggalan.
The name comes from tanggal, meaning to take off, or to detach. The Penanggalan is not a corpse that learned to walk. In the older Malay telling she is a living woman who has learned, or been forced, to leave her body behind.
These stories belong to Malay communities in what is now Malaysia, and they have cousins that must not be flattened into one monster: the Krasue of Thailand, the Kasu of Laos, the Ahp of Cambodia, the Leyak and Kuyang of the…
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