Horror Myths That Every Pakistani Has Heard At least Once In Life

Pakistan has an ancient long history of horrors passed from one generation to another through stories often told by elders of the family to younger ones often at night. Later on, this custom was modernized into cousins night and friends night, where the youngsters gather at night, sit in circles, and share spooky tales with each other. Here is an account of famous horror myths.

1) Dulhan standing on the roadside

Often, we have heard of a girl dressed up in Dulhan attire who is covering her face with a ghoonghat. The Dulhan usually stands at the roadside and asks for a lift from those passing by cars, or often she stands in the middle of the road, which makes the passer stop in their tracks, and the rest, as they say, is history.

2) Jinn taking over a person's body who was wearing perfume

Often, you get told in your household by your grandparents, "Don't put on too much perfume or else Jinn will take over your body."  They have tons of examples of people who went outside wearing lots of perfume and never came back sane. Then the families would have to call 'baba g' to get that jinn off the person's body.

3) Empty houses are often occupied by Jinns

You have often heard of old houses that are left abundant for a long time to become the home ground for supernatural species. No one is ready to live in those houses, and those who dare don't stay there for long; either they leave the house or they disappear.

4) Open hairs are Jinn's favorite thing

"Tie up your hair or else Jinn will fall in love with you." Yes, yes yes this line is home ground for every second girl who loves to flaunt her open hairs. Elders believe that Jinns love women's open hair, and girls who do open their hair are haunted by Jinns.

Conclusion

Being Muslims, we do believe that jinns exist, but it's not necessary that they'll fall in love with you or take over your body without any particular reason. These stories may be called superstitious in present times, but they have an ounce of truth in them as jungle fire spreads from a flame.