Pontianak

Pontianak (folklore)

In folklore, Pontianak often appears as a beautiful and seductive woman, usually accompanied by the strong scent of frangipani. According to myth, men who are not marry will be killed or castrated when she morphs into a hideous being; she will also eat babies and harm pregnant women and has been said to cause miscarriages.

People believe that having a sharp object like a nail helps them fend off potential attacks by Pontianak, the nail being used to plunge a hole at the back of the Pontianak's neck. It is believed that when a nail is plunged into the back of a Pontianak's neck, she will turn into a beautiful woman, until the nail is pulled off again. The Indonesian twist on this is plunging the nail into the apex of the head of the kuntilanak.

Pontianak is associated with banana trees, and its spirit is said to reside in them during the day.

'Vagina Dentata'

In Fact And Folklore

Here is one example from Koelari, Bastar State:

"There was a Rakshasa's daughter who had teeth in her vagina. She used to live mostly as a tigress and kept ten or twelve tigers with her. When she saw a man, she would turn into a pretty girl, seduce him, cut off his penis, eat it herself and give the rest of his body to her tigers.

"One day she met seven brothers in the jungle and married the eldest so that she could sleep with them all. After some time she took the eldest boy to where her tigers lived, made him lie with her, cut off his penis, ate it and gave his body to the tigers.

"The boy did this, and when the tigers came for his body he climbed into a mango tree and made himself very small. The tigers chased him and the girl became very angry. He cursed her, 'let nothing but your face remain!' And so it was: she became a Chamgedri, which eats, excretes, urinates and copulates through one and the same aperture.

"One of the mangoes opened and the boy crept inside. A parrot carried off the mango to a Raja's palace. It dropped it, the fruit broke open, the boy emerged, and after various adventures, he married the Raja's daughter."

SYNOPSIS OF TEETH

Teeth - A 2007 Sundance film in which a girl has
teeth in her vagina.

High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her
budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most
active participant. Her task is made even more difficult
by her bad boy stepbrother Brad's
increasingly provocative behavior
at home. A stranger to her own body,
innocent Dawn discovers
she has a toothed vagina when
she becomes the object of violence.
As she struggles to comprehend
her anatomical uniqueness,
Dawn experiences both the pitfalls
and the power of being
a living example of the vagina dentata myth.