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She saw the flying head vampire monster

Acts-perienced Poster Posts: 11849 **1/22/17 7:13 am**

I had lunch today with the sister-in-law of a COG preacher I know and her husband. She is Dayak, from Borneo. She had, of course, heard of kuyang, a kind of monster. A kuyang is supposed to be a human being, a witchdoctor who practices a kind of magic where his head detaches from his body, carrying the digestive system, and flies to find a newborn baby to suck it's blood.

My wife took a missions trip with some fellow COG Bible college students up to Borneo right before I proposed to her. She shared the gospel with a couple rumored to be kuyang in their home. She described the woman as having scars around her neck.

This woman we ate lunch with today said she saw a kuyang, with an oversized glowing red head flying behind her while she was in a car in Borneo. She'd never seen one before. Her husband said if you talk to people in Borneo, they say if you are around for a few days, that you probably won't see a kuyang, but if you are there for a long time, you will see one.

I asked if the intestines were all wrapped up neatly or if they strung along for 60 meters. They said the intestines stayed together. Alleged videos of these monsters on YouTube have the monster's instestines staying together.

Anyway, apparently a lot of people have claimed to see such things. I'm sure if I interviewed people I could find people who claimed to have seen people turn into were-tigers and were-sakes. People in general seem to believe that witchdoctors cause stones that serve as amulets to sink into people's skin or teeth. The stones are supposed to make more attractive, strong, or nearly invulnterable. They also talk about witchdoctors blowing needles into people, sometimes over unrealistically long distances, to pierce them and put some kind of magic spell on them or poison them. It was interesting talking with an African pastor I translated for describe the magic in his own country with the needles, and I think stones. Same stuff. He didn't mention flying head witchdoctors dragging their heads around.

I'm pretty open minded for a westerner, though people in Indonesia think I'm rather skeptical. The woman's husband we had lunch with did not believe these things existed at first, but he isn't so sure after hearing his wife's people tell their stories.

I don't know if these sorts of things are demonic visions, demons warping individuals' perceptions of reality, myths and legends, or a combination of all of them. If Egyptian witchdoctors could turn sticks into snakes through the dark arts, It is conceivable demons may be able to do some things with matter that don't fit into the worldview of the typical western Christian. [/i]
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Acts-pert Poster Posts: 15570 **1/22/17 1:48 pm**

I bet what she seen was the crawlin tumor............

01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24285 **1/22/17 7:09 pm**

Imma telling you Link you gotta meet the most interesting folk. Shucks your life has been around the block since leaving the NC mountains.

That aside, i have talked to folk who could convince a lot of folk of about anything. My little stint into magic and entertaining kids, I met folk who could imitate what you said about sinking rocks into surfaces of any kind, into hands arms and heads. You had to be well versed in the art of diversion and slight of hand top catch the illusion.

There are races of folk, the ones I have met are from Jamaica and Haiti who lean into the mysterious.
Thanks for posting, I never heard of this one from Borneo.

Hope all is well otherwise with the family! Cool

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Acts-perienced Poster Posts: 11849 **1/22/17 8:40 pm**

Cojak,

Things are going well with the family.

When it comes to magic, a lot of it is illusion and slight of hand. But I think some of it is actually demonic. If I saw a flying head with intestines following, it probably wouldn't change my world view all that much. If I found out they had some kind of trick to make it look like their heads were flying, it wouldn't shake my world view either. It's curious that a lot of people who live in those areas have claimed to see such things. I think demons can alter people's perceptions at times, either projecting illusions or messing with their perceptions. They can also try to persuade people that simple illusions are real if it serves their purposes.

My wife got a video once of a guy at a Pentecostal church service who was having a raving demonic episode. People were singing. He stood up front. Whichever section he got close to would rebuke the demon. Apparently, stuff was falling out of his body. They had a collection of nails and other amulets the witchdoctors were supposed to have put into him.
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Acts-perienced Poster Posts: 11849 **1/22/17 10:45 pm**

When my wife came back from a missions trip many years ago and she told about ministering to these people, and how people around there said they were kukung, I asked my Indonesia coworkers if they believed in such things. They had bachelor's degrees or at least some kind of diploma. They believed in these things.

One had been a Philippines citizen. She said she would not have believed in such things before, but one of her husband's relatives had this happen to her and the family sprinkled salt on the neck to stop it. Later, someone in the family was possessed, she said, by the spirit of the woman who this happened to for a while, and spoke with her voice. She didn't see it but heard about it from relatives.

I came up with the idea for scene for a comedy TV show, where a head separated from a body, flying around, seeking baby blood, while mumbling stuff. Some kids see the head, grab it, and start playing basketball with it. In can just imagine it, with the head grunting while being thrown through the hoops. It sounds funny to me, like a gruesome Monty Python sketch. I bounced the idea off of a couple of Indonesia co-workers and they did not find it funny at all.

Maybe that was before I heard about the guts flying around behind the head. I think that would scare the kids off in my story.

This stuff is so weird. I was just probably processing the information through my strange sense of humor. It is interesting how different cultures react to stories of the supernatural. I've ridden on the back of a number of hired motorcycles back in the '90's and early 2000's in Jakarta, and I often wanted to take a short cut through the grave yard. One guy claimed to see people in trees with glowing eyes.

I think a lot of Americans don't believe in supernatural stuff because of watching Scooby Doo growing up. I was teaching English to some kindergarten children, and one of the children said something that confirmed my theory. He said there was no such things as ghosts, "Do you know how I know?" I asked him how he knew. He said, because at the end of Scooby Doo, the ghost was always some guy in a mask.

Of course, for Christians, the Bible teaches there are angels and demons, so we should believe those exist.
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01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24285 **1/22/17 11:15 pm**

Thru out the world there are unexplained phenomenon no one has explained, and yes there are demons and the devil himself is real. You have just been in more places LONGER than most of us here in the states to see many different cultures and their customs and folklore.

Family wise, it is Good that all is well. Cool

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