The hantu raya is a shape shifting ghost. Usually, this ghost doesn’t use its natural ability. This is a ghost with a master (owner) and its purpose is to give its master wealth and riches. The master is responsible for taking care of the ghost until his death.

Every owner of this ghosts must find his or her decendant before passing away because if it is to be without a master, it will then possed its master’s body after death and return home to act as his master and eat anything that it can find it that house. This will continue even after the body rot away. There are some cases that one man had died about a week but nobody in his household knew about it (because the ghost have already possesed his body) until they began to smell a bad odor coming from the man.