Malaysians say that if you smell frangipani, there may be a female ghost nearby

In Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and surrounding areas, there is a famous female ghost called Pontianak. Legend has it that she is a woman who died while pregnant or during childbirth and became a ghost.

She usually appears at night and has several characteristics. First, a scent drifts over first—the smell of frangipani; some say you might hear a baby crying first; second, she initially appears as a beautiful woman, pretending to be a lost girl or a mother alone with her child. When a man approaches, she reveals her true face, covered in blood, with long nails, and scratches people to death; in some versions, she even pulls out people's internal organs.

It is said that frangipani trees and banana trees are places she likes to stay.

There is a legendary way to deal with her: use a large nail and drive it into a hole on the back of her neck, and she will turn back into an ordinary woman—docile and hardworking—as long as the nail is not pulled out, she stays that way. In some stories, a man marries such a wife, and they live peacefully for many years until one day the nail is pulled out.

On the island of Kalimantan in Indonesia, there is a city called Pontianak, which is literally the name of this ghost. Legend has it that the first sultan of this city, while traveling up the river years ago, was harassed by the ghost at night, so he fired cannons, blasting toward where the sounds came from to drive the ghost away, and built this city where the cannonballs landed.

In Indonesia, there is a similar one called Kuntilanak. Since the late 1950s, Malaysia and Singapore have been making movies on this theme, and even now, new films come out every year.

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