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A demon boar in Javanese folk tales who is the manifestation of a human involved in the practice of the black arts, specifically in seeking to become rich by purloining the goods of neighbors in the guise of a pig.

The superstition is still current, as is evident in a recent news report on an Indonesian website concerning the arrest of a pig in Jompang, East Java, on suspicion of it being a babi ngepet (sindonews.com, June 2013). Discussion ensues on how to distinguish between a pig and an “imitation,” concluding that only by killing it can its identity become clear: if it transforms into another creature, it is certainly a babi ngepet.