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In this concept art, Sisu looks more like a real Southeast Asian dragon. I'm not sure what changed. Especially the Elsa-meets-MLP face. The final design barely even looks Asian, and not Southeast Asian at all

BIDADARI / BIDADARA

From the Sanskrit vidyadhari and vidyadhara, meaning knowledge-holders. These are humans who attain supernatural powers and very long lives through cultivation, reaching god-like status and living in the heavens

HANTU-HANTUAN

Echo-spirits that live in the mountains where echos can be heard. They appear human, and if they intermarry with a human, the resulting child will be an albino. Maybe that means they're albino too? Again, I assume they'd have Malay names

A folktale from Johor tells the Cinderella-esque story of a girl who was mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister until she met a kindly bear which turned out to be a human prince

#FairyTaleTuesday
🎨: Annabel Chance

People seem to like when I mix pop culture in with folklore and cultural history so here's a short look at what I thought were a few interesting points in the currently trending anime Kimetsu No Yaiba which, unlike most anime trends, actually lives up to the hype

Why's this significant? Because lions aren't actually native to China. Most Asians were so unfamiliar with the animal that depictions of them in China & Southeast Asia show little resemblance to real lions. This is a wayang kulit puppet of a lion from the Kelantan-Pattani region

If you wanna see the Southeast Asian Wonder Woman, look up Sri Asih https://t.co/vp9RCg4Aeu

The Indochinese epic of Sang Sinsai at first appears to be a run-of-the-mill story about the hero Sinsai rescuing his aunt from an ogre (yaksa). As it turns out, his aunt is in love with the ogre. In fact, the ultimate resolution is a happy ending for all beings, not just humans

One of the most well known Malay nursery rhymes is Bangau oh Bangau (Stork oh Stork), a cause-and-effect song explaining that the stork is thin ultimately because the snake eats frogs. It also alludes to the ability of frogs to call rain, a common old belief

#FolkloreThursday

The keris is a type of dagger of asymmetrical shape. More than just a weapon, it was a status symbol, a family heirloom, and an instrument of occult practices. Here's what the parts are called, in Malay and Javanese