Leak

Leak is a mythical creature from one of the famous island in Indonesia, Bali. Bali is an island with very beautiful resources, as well as rich cultures.

The cultures are not manifesting only in traditional dance, music, or rituals. They also comes in different forms : stories. Yes, Bali has many traditional (and mystic) stories. Leak is one of them.

Leak is human who are wanting to be rich and cooperating with ‘bad’ creatures from other worlds. The famous one consist of two men and one woman. They are ordinary human in daytime, and becoming leak every night. This mystical creatures are manifest through human head with no body.

The intestines of the human is dangled from the head, without the body that covers it. The people of Bali believes that Leak will come every night to suck the blood out of children and pregnant women. They need that blood in order to increase their wealth.

This is almost the same with the creatures from Kalimantan that called ‘Kuyang’. If we want to kill Leak, we’re gonna have to stab the leak right from the bottom of the intestines and this will separate the intestines from the head. If they both are separated, the Leak will slowly die.