A hag stone is a stone with a natural hole in it. It’s said that looking through the hole in a hag stone let’s you see into other worlds. It’s also said that looking through a hag stone will let you see through glamour and see the truth. They’re also called adder stones, witch stones, and serpent’s eggs.
I used to collect these when I was a child. You can find them along the beaches or riverbanks, as the water will often bore a hole through a smooth stone.
A cat sneezing is lucky for brides. I’ve never been aware of an explanation for this though.
While in British folkloric tradition mermaids are often seen as unlucky and bringing disaster, in the Caribbean they grant wishes to sailors.
A penanggalan is a ghost/vampire native to the Malay peninsula. They are vampiric creatures with a women’s head, detached from their bodies, and trailing their entrails as they fly. Tradition generally states that they were once beautiful women who either does from child birth, made a pact with the devil, or were cursed for using black magic. Similar to the Filipino manananggal, although the Filipino versions can be either male or female, whereas the penanggalan are always female.
You can escape one by scattering thorny leaves from a specific plant and protecting your house with these plants as well.
Penanggalan can appear as normal, usually very beautiful, women during the daytime. Because of their association with women who died in child birth there are a lot of stories of them working as midwives, who might later feed on the mother or come for the child when it is born.
You can defeat them by either waiting for the head to detach from the body and filling the empty neck with glass or by destroying the body. There is also a more humorous way to identify a penanggalan by flipping the body over so that the head will reattach backwards in the mornings.
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