Toyol

The Toyol (Tuyul in Javanese) is a spirit familiar created from a stillborn or aborted fetus through black magic performed by a dukun (shaman/sorcerer). The practitioner raises the creature as a magical servant, feeding it with blood from their fingertips. The toyol is typically used to steal money and goods from neighbors, which it can do invisibly. Ownership is a moral and social transgression — the toyol must be passed on at the owner's death or it will destroy the owner's family.

A small, child-like creature with a large hairless head, bulging eyes, green or grey skin, and tiny limbs. It moves like a toddler. It has a gnome-like appearance, often described as looking like a cross between an infant and an old man.

Could enter locked homes and steal money or goods invisibly. Extremely difficult to detect during theft. Required regular blood feeding from its master. Could attack people who disturbed it. Passed on at death — the new owner inherited both the familiar and any karmic consequences.