Pocong
The pocong is the shrouded dead of Java and the Malay world: a corpse still tied in its white burial cloth that leaves the grave because the knots were never loosened. It is one of the best known figures in Indonesian horror and a staple of local film and television. The belief turns a detail of funeral procedure into the cause of undeath, which is a common pattern in walking-dead folklore worldwide.1
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The name is Javanese for 'wrapped in a shroud'1
Its face reflects the state of the corpse: pale and staring if fresh, rotted or skeletal if long dead1
Some only want to deliver a message or ask for prayers; others terrorise1
Said to gather around banana trees at night1
A red-shrouded pocong is the rarest and most feared kind1
In 2020 villagers in Java dressed as pocong to scare people into staying home during the COVID-19 pandemic1
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