Franapani and Piotianak
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Is it true that when you smell franapani (spelling?), that means that a piotianak is near you?
Onced I cycle down this stretch of Changi Village Road towards the airport run-way, I could smell strong franapani from the trees. -
That is what many ppl believe...Originally posted by tranquilice:Is it true that when you smell franapani (spelling?), that means that a piotianak is near you?
Onced I cycle down this stretch of Changi Village Road towards the airport run-way, I could smell strong franapani from the trees.
another point to note...if you hear a pontianak crying from afar, it means that she is very near you..
if you hear her cries very near to you...then it means that she is far away..
Malovenent spirits usually come with foul smells... -
Can explain why?Originally posted by PaJeRoMiNi Ver 1.0:That is what many ppl believe...
another point to note...if you hear a pontianak crying from afar, it means that she is very near you..
if you hear her cries very near to you...then it means that she is far away..
Malovenent spirits usually come with foul smells...
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Deception, perhaps?Originally posted by tranquilice:Can explain why?
BTW, while touching on this topic, here is a well known story abt Pontianaks among the M'sians...
Along the North-South highway in Malaysia, there are various spots marked with sign alerting drivers of crosswind. The dual carriageway is one of the world's most advance expressway and hence, when designing it, one would assume that the planners would not have built it with crosswind sections. The expressway is open for 24 hours and thousands of vehicles use it everyday. However, there is hardly anyone who has seen the wind indicator marking the presence of such claimed crosswind.
I found out later that these sections are actually black spots for 'mystery accidents'. As all these sections are neither winding nor slippery, the authorities could not find any explanation of those accidents. A study revealed that those areas are either cemetery sites of the local tribe before the highway was built, or they were the so-called 'dark' areas by the local tribes. Therefore, those crosswind warnings were put up just to warn drivers so that they are more alert and careful as they were driving along those stretches, especially at night since the highway is not lighted.
None of the accidents are, however, worth mentioning here. No one has ever reported seeing a ghost or spirit driving them away from their senses or any sort of unexplained phenomena happening there.
Nevertheless, there is an incident that happened on the highway that has caught the attention of a lot of people. This incident does not happen along any of those crosswind sections but, instead, near the tunnel on the northern section of the highway. Before approaching the tunnel, drivers will go through highly areas with the hill on one side and a sharp cliff on the other. The sharp bends caused the authorities to put the speed limit down to 80kmph (110kmph for most of the highway).
This story went public the first time when someone called in to the radio during a ghost story programme. What make this story even more interesting are the several calls later from witnesses and relatives to verify that the story is true.
The incident happened on a Malay couple with a small baby. They were driving along the expressway on a late night. It must have been past 2am then and there aren't many private cars at those hours. As they got near the tunnel, their car broke down. Perhaps it is the hilly road, which put a lot of stress on the car, that caused the car to broke down more than anything else.
The man stopped his car along the emergency lane and got off the car to see if there was anything he could do. His wife was sitting at the back of the car with their baby then. He got off the car, opened up the engine and apparently was doing something there. The wife just waited in the car with their baby since she is the type of people who has the slightest idea about cars.
As the engine cover was turned up, the lady could not see what her husband was doing in front. Then, there was no noise at all. She started to get worried. Perhaps more worried about not being able to get out of there than if there would be anything wrong with her husband. Then the baby started crying. She carried her up and tried to calm her down. However, the baby kept crying and crying.
Afterwards, she noticed two police cars drove by. They slowed down as they past her. As she thought they would stop, the police cars suddenly sped off. Then she heard a shrieking break of the police cars ahead. Apparently, the police stopped their cars under the lights of the tunnel about 100 metres ahead.
Then, she started hearing the policemen shouting at her. They shouted at her and asked her to get out of the car and run towards them. She got panic upon hearing that. Then, worry about her baby's and her own safety, she grabbed her baby, got out of the car and started running as fast as she could towards the policemen. As she was running, they kept shouting at her to hurry and asked her not to look back. As she almost got to where the policemen were, she suddenly thought of her husband. She turn her head back to take a look while continued running.
To her horror, she saw three 'pontianak' (see notes) with lots of blood on their mouth. She saw one of them holding her husband's head and licking off the dripping blood while two others were busy sucking the blood from the man's body.
Two policemen, fearing that she may stop running upon seeing that, rushed to her and dragged her into one of the police car. They shot off as fast as they could after that. Seven policemen witnessed this incident. When the police got there, the man was lying there headless and 'bloodless'. The police, after interviewing the widow and the seven policemen who witnessed the incident, decided to close the case.
In the radio programme, someone called up later to say that he was one of the policemen there at that time while another called up claiming to be the victim's uncle. He said he refused to believe the story and had applied for the case to be reopened for investigation. He believes it was a murder case. Another caller said his sister, the widow, was distressed after the incident and he appealed to all listeners to believe that the story is true and be more careful on the highway.
Scary stuff, huh?
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dunno abt pontianaks but frangipannis r supposed to be used for erm.. worshipping the dead.. so i guess if all the sudden u can smell frangipanni even tho theres none around u well..u can guess wats near u ...Originally posted by tranquilice:Is it true that when you smell franapani (spelling?), that means that a piotianak is near you?
Onced I cycle down this stretch of Changi Village Road towards the airport run-way, I could smell strong franapani from the trees. -
I cycled in a group and most of the time there are vehicles passing by...but the smell is very strong.Originally posted by wuming78:dunno abt pontianaks but frangipannis r supposed to be used for erm.. worshipping the dead.. so i guess if all the sudden u can smell frangipanni even tho theres none around u well..u can guess wats near u ... -
Originally posted by tranquilice:I cycled in a group and most of the time there are vehicles passing by...but the smell is very strong.
the stronger the smell....the fiercer the spirit!! -
frangipani is the commonest species of horticulture grown in cementries of singapore and as such people tend to associate this flower with spirits of the dead because one can smell the fragrance of this flower in these places. The chinese also consider this flower as inauspicious....so i dont think there is any direct link between ghostly sightings with the aroma of flowers.
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Touching on the topic of pontianaks..you guys have ever heard this before??
Tie one end of a red string onto the banana flower(the bulb at the bottom of the banana bunch) and tie the other end to your little toe..
when you sleep...the pontianak will appear before you, pleading you to let her go....she will give anything in return...people usually ask for 4D numbers...after that detach the string from the flower... -
That is the Karak Highway....in Perak....I see quite a number of cars break down on that areaOriginally posted by PaJeRoMiNi Ver 1.0:This story went public the first time when someone called in to the radio during a ghost story programme. What make this story even more interesting are the several calls later from witnesses and relatives to verify that the story is true.
The incident happened on a Malay couple with a small baby. They were driving along the expressway on a late night. It must have been past 2am then and there aren't many private cars at those hours. As they got near the tunnel, their car broke down. Perhaps it is the hilly road, which put a lot of stress on the car, that caused the car to broke down more than anything else...... -
couldn't be so coincidential so many cars break down at that particular stretch of higway rite?Originally posted by Sir_Horny:That is the Karak Highway....in Perak....I see quite a number of cars break down on that area -
the area is quite hilly n there's 1 time it was raining heavily n the road is quite misty....scary especially when travelling at nite
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some witches believe drink blood increase their magic power -
some even bathe in blood believing that it keeps them young!Originally posted by boy in blues: some witches believe drink blood increase their magic power -
"back in 1995, when i was still in sec 2, a few of us went to pulau ubin. we were led by a senior who was also a cadet inspector from NPCC whom i myself later, became one. yah, we were all from NPCC but this was an unofficial trip.
we wanted to do a night walk from the jetty to our "base camp" at noorthing beach. the plan was from the jetty, we would be dispatched 2 by 2 with a 10 to 15 minutes interval and made our way back to the beach. as we were young and kind of adventurous, all of us were looking forward to it.
at about 11.30pm, we made our way to the jetty. on the way, we were chit chatting, talking rubbish when suddenly, something happened. after we passed the village head's house, we could smell this very strong flower fragrance.
it was overwhelming. it was so strong that it was becoming a stench. i did not realise anything wrong, but that senior of ours told us to stop talking and walk faster. we really walked very fast almost to the point of jogging.
nobody talked about it after that and we carried out our night walk as planned. i only realised very much later that the smell was actually frangipani and that frangipani are often associated with spirits."