Leyak is said to fly trying to find a pregnant woman in order to suck her baby's blood or a newborn child. There are three legendary Leyak, two females and one male.Leyak are said to haunt graveyards, feed on corpses.
In the folklore of Bali, the Leyak is a mythological figure in the form of a flying head with entrails (heart, lung, liver, etc.) still attached. have power to change themselves into animals, such as pigs, and fly. In normal Leyak form, they are said to have an unusually long tongue and large fangs. In daylight they appear as an ordinary human, but at night their head and entrails break loose from their body and fly.