{"id":47,"date":"2009-03-02T20:47:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T04:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2009-03-02T20:47:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T04:47:37","slug":"indonesian-exorcists-finding-work-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/indonesian-exorcists-finding-work-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian exorcists finding work in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/toyol-indonesia-170x300.jpg\" alt=\"toyol-indonesia\" title=\"toyol-indonesia\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/toyol-indonesia-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/toyol-indonesia.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/>Indonesian exorcists are being used in Sarawak, Malaysia to help drive out a &#8220;toyol&#8221; which has been causing havoc in a school, according to this article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Monday\/National\/2493169\/Article\/index_html\">New Straits Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mysticism and black magic retains a strong foothold in this part of the world.  Of course I am surprised that people still believe in mythical spirits, but I became even more disturbed after reading exactly what a &#8220;toyol&#8221; is on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toyol\">Wikipedia<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is a small child spirit invoked by a bomoh (Malay witch doctor) from a <strong>dead human foetus<\/strong> using black magic. It is possible to buy a toyol from such a bomoh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am sure they would make great souvenirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesian exorcists are being used in Sarawak, Malaysia to help drive out a &#8220;toyol&#8221; which has been causing havoc in a school, according to this article in the New Straits Times. Mysticism and black magic retains a strong foothold in this part of the world. Of course I am surprised that people still believe in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7],"tags":[22,25,24,26,23,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aboutindonesia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}