Gua Langsuir or Langsuir Cave is situated near Tasik Dayang
Bunting (The Lake of Pregnant Lady), on the west coast of Pulau Dayang Bunting
(the Island of Pregnant Lady), off Langkawi Golf Club.
Legend has it that in old days, 3 numbers of langsuir (a
type of lady vampire) stayed in the cave. These female vampires can transform
themselves into very attractive ladies who could sing and dance in such a
manner that would arouse any men. These vampires would lure those unwary sailors
and fishermen sailed by the cave.
Whoever were enchanted by those pretty emanations would
either jumped overboard and drowned, or those who managed to swim to the cave
would be tortured slowly by those vampires until death; then the lifeless body
of unfortunate victims would be consumed by those 3 horrible creatures.
As the time went by, almost everyone knew the presence and
tricks of these langsuir and people would stay away from the cave causing the 3
langsuir starved.
One day, a blurred and deaf fisherman row his boat passed
the Langsuir Cave and he was not aware of the langsuirs’ enticing call…
All of the three langsuir were extremely happy to see this
fisherman since they have starved for quite a long time already. Sorry to say
that all they efforts to attract this nearly blind and deaf fisherman have
failed miserably. This incident has led the langsuir to think that they have
lost their charm against people in that area.
Consequently, due to their own fear of revenge from victims’
family members; the three langsuir decided to fly away from their hiding cave
and not to return…
Or was the legend true as described?
Well, while I can’t be sure if the three langsuir are still
in the cave now, but my pal, Saiful did believe the vampires were still in the
cave some 10 years ago.
Saiful was working with a hotel in Langkawi and he used to
charter a small boat to fish with two other friends.
This was just one of their fishing trip to fish near
Langsuir Cave. It was around 6pm, Saiful and his friends were about to finish
fishing and return home…
Suddenly there was a gust of strong wind blowing at their
boat that made the boat pitched port and starboard. Just as when Saiful and his
friends were balancing their bodies again the pitching of the boat to prevent
their boat from overturning, Saiful suddenly heard a woman’s voice coming from
the direction of Langsuir Cave:
“Young man… what is your name?”
The wind continued to blow hitting the boat across the bow.
Just as when Saiful lowered his body and holding firmer against the side of the
boat, another woman’s voice was heard from the cave:
“How old are you?”
This time, Saiful could feel the source of voice was getting
closer… but Saiful didn’t answer the voice as his instinct told him not to.
Yet another strong wind hit Saiful’s boat and another voice
followed and at this point, Saiful sworn that the source of voice was just
within reach:
“Why are you here?”
At this point, Saiful ignored the voice and he started to
pray. It was not that Saiful was afraid of the voice nor was he curious; but
Saiful was more concern of keeping the small boat balance so that all of them
could return home safely.
Luckily at this point, a motorised fishing boat came by and
the skipper was kind enough to let all of the three people board his fishing
boat and also tow Saiful’s small boat back to harbour.
Afterwards, when I met Saiful in a food stall, he told me
that he firmly believed the voices were from the three langsuir as all of the
three voices were of different accents. Saiful thinks that he was correct as he
didn’t respond to the mysterious voices. Otherwise he would not be able to
survive in the choppy sea at that time though Saiful is quite a good swimmer…
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