The Penanggalan: Malaysian
The Penanggalan (meaning detach or remove) is a vampire myth prevalent in Southeast Asian folklore, said to be the remains of black magic users that broke a demonic pact to not eat meat for 40 days. The resulting creature would hunt throughout the night in search of human prey as a female head with dangling organs and entrails trailing below. The Penanggalan would especially thirst for the blood of pregnant women and newborn infants. A touch of her long tongue would result in a fatal wasting disease, and the brush of her entrails would leave open sores. To protect the house from the creature, thorny leaves could be grown all around to tear her organs should she attempt entery, along pineapples grown underneath the house to prevent the Penanggalan from oozing up through the floorboards. However, once the night is over, the flying head must return to its body to live out the day as a normal human, using a vinegar soak to shrink her entrails for easy reentry to the body. To permanently destroy the Penanggal one could fill her body with broken glass, burn the body, or hide it away from the creature till sunrise, in which the vinegar-reeking head will die when exposed to daylight.