Blood Hunters

The Pontianak (also called the Kuntilanak) is a ghostly spirit that is familiar across the Malay world. The ghost represents the spirit of a woman who has died giving birth and who appears, therefore, as a white-clad creature combining misery, despair and anger. The Pontianak customarily appears by the side of the road or, at least, it is when people are walking along a road that they might encounter her. Clearly, not only is the Pontianak a frightening figure in herself but she is likely to be ill-disposed towards men in particular whom she might blame for causing the pregnancy which then killed her.