Marg: The common phrase here for that sentiment is, "Act blur, live longer."<br/><br/>One step upwards! There's a very common malignant female spirit known as the Pontianak, formed by a woman who died of childbirth. Common features and warning signs are: initially beautiful appearance from afar, long black hair, stupidly long fingernails, a very strong and pungent scent of frangipani before you see her, and from a distance it's easily discernible that she has no legs. Taxi drivers in Malaysia are known to simply drive past women trying to flag down cabs in the middle of the night, especially if they wear white, have very long hair and have very vague facial features and most obviously, no legs.<br/><br/>Anyhow, I digress. The whole lot of us recruits were shaved bald and they kept it that way till we passed Basic. There were no female officers nor NCOs on the island and female staff are far, far away from the bunks and training areas. And yet oftentimes we could wake up in the bunk to find very, very long strands of hair on our pillows and mattresses, and during training we'd hear women's shrieks... just out of nowhere. :|