Few years back, my family would let us, the children to go back to our grandparents home to enjoy the holiday, especially me since I am usually the one that will be helping out with the cleaning of the house before Christmas for our family gathering.
One night during my stay there (Just me then, no siblings went back with me.), I slept in my aunt's room which at that time we shared it with our grandparents since the other rooms are occupied with my relatives. So the 4 of us were in the room together. There were 2 single beds on each side of the room and 2 single mattresses on the floor in the middle of the 2 beds for my aunt and I to sleep while my grandparents sleep on the 2 single beds.
Like I said earlier on, I tend to wake up at the slightest sound. But that night, I did woke up but again, it was not because of a sound. I just woke. I woke, pulled my cover aside and walked up to the window overlooking our living room (I know its unusual to have a window of your room overlooking the inside of the house but that how my granddad design the house.) and looked out to the living room sofa.
I bet anyone that might have seen what I have seen that night may have just scream out loud or even fainted. However, that did not happen to me.
On the sofa facing the window, there was a head.....Just a head. I know I was sleepy at that time but the sight of the head was to real to be forgotten. Here's a description of the head :
1. A melted like frown (like a very very sad clown's frown)
2. Messy hair that looked like it was wet (cause it was shiny from the light from our dining area)
3. Bulging round eyes but you can't see its pupil
4. Under it was like a pile of organs cause one of it looked like an intestine
5. Swollen and wrinkled face
6. Can't really see its teeth even though it had its mouth open
I looked at it for like a minute before I calmly close the curtain of the window and went back to sleep. The next day, I was shocked that I was not the least afraid of the event that happened to me that night. WE WERE STARING AT EACH OTHER!!! (me and the head) How can anyone still be able to sleep after seeing something like that in their living room? Let alone looking back at them...? After recovering from the confusion of why I did what I did last night (waking up for no apparent reason and went straight to the window and looked at the thing), I went to my grandma and told her about it and even shown her exactly the location on the sofa where I saw the head. (She's a very religious person, one of the teacher in our Church for those who wish to enter Roman Catholic). And all she said was it might just be a dream.
But to me, I know it was not. I know what I saw. Then, coming back to school, I've told a few of my friends about it. They say that is what is called a Balan-Balan, which is a flying head with all its internal organ. They say it originated from those females that has been chosen by one of those things to be one (usually the beautiful ones) or their family members are a generation of those things or if they or their family members have a Saka. A Saka is a spirit that is given the job of protecting the family or person but there is the consequences like becoming the Balan-Balan or you have to feed it blood either of a sacrificed animal or your own family members blood. They say, some of those females didn't even know that they are one. Sad.
Not only that, those heads are said to lick or suck to blood of recently given birth mothers and those females who had their period (menstrual) and did not cleaned their pads. In the olden day, after the birth of a child or the females in the family are in their time of the month, they would hang a necklace of nail or thorn around the house or the entrance of the house and the room of the female to protect them from these bloodsuckers (kinda like a vampire I guess). One other thing is to put salt around your house or squeezes of lime or anything acidic cause it is said if the organs of it touches these, it will hurt itself (like if you were to squeeze a lime over your wound, OUCH!!).
A more brutal way is to kill it. How?? If you happen to know who the person is (the head is), go to the person's residential and if you did find them without the head, quickly turn their body upside down. I mean the chest facing the bed and the bum facing the ceiling.These will prevent the head from connecting itself to the body and died at the first light of morning. Oh.....I forgot to tell you. The head must return to its original body before sunrise or it will die. (there is one story where they say the organs were tangled on a barbwire of a house gate and the head died there because it was unable to return to its body) So, yeah, that's another way to kill it too I guess.
How to tell i the person is one of them? Well. From what I have read and heard. You will see a faint line around the neck of the person. And I mean around the neck, 360 degrees. And it will be in a faint black, purple or dark blue in color.
My tuition teacher experienced this first hand. It was very early in the morning when she was getting ready to open up the tuition center when suddenly she heard someone crying out for help from the back of the center (behind was a small forest). So she went back and tried to locate the voice's location. To her surprise, she saw a head crying out to her. Its organs were tangled in the branches of a tree and could get lose and morning is approaching. It begged her to set her lose while crying. My teacher felt sorry for her so she got herself a pole and help untangled to organs. Once untangled, the head thanked her and went off her way. Then, the next day, a woman came to the tuition center and gave my teacher a gift. She said it was for helping her but my teacher didn't recognized her so she was puzzled upon receiving the gift. That is when the woman smiled and loosen her scarf around her neck and there it was. A faint dark blue line around her neck. As soon as my teacher saw that, she knew it immediately. She was the head she helped.
I guess not all are bad. Maybe they didn't want it but like I said earlier, some are a generation of it so it can't be helped. Oh....again. I forgot. They say when it is near you, you will hear a faint sound of a hen chuckling and vice verse if it was far from you. And in my country, you can't say the name Balan-Balan out loud a few times or it will come to you, so as a precaution, we called it Bx2 (B kuasa dua) or in english B times 2. Hahaa......that's funny to say. So, that all y'all. Hehe....
**Is there anything like this in your country?? I know Thailand has one kinda like this but I don't remember the name. =) Do share if you do. Hope you enjoyed the story.
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(from google) just to give you a picture minus the flowers okay?? hehe
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