Tuyul

spirit · Indonesia · Southeast Asia

Tuyul is the money-stealing child spirit of Indonesian folklore, a small bald pale humanoid in a loincloth, often greenish-skinned and pointed-eared, able to scale walls. It slips invisibly into homes to carry money to its keeper in exchange for food and care, and can be thwarted by scattered seeds or beans it stops to count. The legend satirizes greed and the craving for easy wealth.

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