KUANTAN: The bottle believed to contain a toyol – a mythical supernatural creature – has been returned to the sea.

The 20cm-high bottle, which had a red-eyed figure dressed in a black cloak, was found by a fisherman on the beach in Kampung Kuala Pahang in Pekan on Feb 21. The fisherman then passed the item to a bomoh.

PUPPET ONLY: The bottle which was said to house a toyol had been thrown back into the sea.
The bottle was then handed to the museum in Pekan the following day where it attracted a lot of attention.

State Museum director Ahmad Farid Abdul Jalal said the museum conducted a simple study on the object and found that it was only a puppet, which was then returned to the bomoh.

The bomoh threw it back into the sea yesterday.

“We believe it had been used by someone for some healing ritual and it was thrown into the sea maybe because the owner wanted to get rid of it,” Ahmad Farid said yesterday.

He added that the bottle could have been washed ashore when the fisherman found it.