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Cryptids of Cambodia

What cryptids are in Cambodia? The best-known is Krasue.

Cambodian folklore shares with Thailand and Laos the tale of a floating female head with entrails, known in Khmer as the ahp. It is blamed on black magic rather than past sins, and families protect pregnant women with thorny branches and bury afterbirth far from the house.

  • 1 cryptid

Cryptids reported in Cambodia

Spectral · Pre-modern

Krasue

Rural Thailand, Cambodia and Laos Mainland Southeast Asia’s floating female head with trailing entrails, said to glow at night in rice fields and hunt for blood and raw flesh. Folklore

The legends of Cambodia

The ahp is a living belief and a theme of Cambodian cinema, including the first locally made film after the Khmer Rouge era.

Hotspots

  • Rural Khmer villages

    Where ahp beliefs and protective customs are still practised.

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