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Mystery, magic and Ghosts

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Was it a coincidence or something more?

Our editor sent me a list of upcoming themes and said she thought I could "have something [my] sleeves to Ghosts, Magic and Mystery."

How strange, I thought, what would make him think that? After all, I have no skeletons in my closet, much less my short sleeves.

The next morning, I went to my morning ritual: a cup of coffee makes and installs the Jakarta Post. The story of the lead on the first page was titled When threats against KPK sinister turn.

We all know that the Commission eradication of corruption has regular battles with the entrenched forces of the business community with their cohorts employed by the state. So what are the sinister forces at play here in KPK survey of the National Traffic Police

I read: "In recent days, security guards, staff and those who regularly visit the KPK headquarters in south Jakarta began to notice a number of features, such as flowers being distributed around a corner and the red dirt sprayed in another. others said they saw the goat hides with letters scribbled on them. They also found the powder with some believing it was milled from bones.

"for those familiar with black magic, these elements are known . for use in the exercise thereof "

caffeinated My mind refused to Boggle until I read the response from the spokesman Johan Budi KPK He said." We believe in God, and our investigations will not be burdened with superstitions like this. "

The name and position in the KPK suggests that Johan is Javanese, in this case, we can also assume that it is imbued with Primbon, a Javanese almanac of mysticism and its particular religious mark.

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about 20 years, Permadi was known as a seer, make incorrect assumptions about the coming year. More recently, in 2009, and now a politician from the opposition Gerindra party, he suggested that the date of birth of President SBY, September 9, 1949 (wow, four 9s) carried the shadow of "cosmic evil" and he would always bring disaster to the country. Since the election of SBY in 2004, there was the Aceh tsunami, numerous earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and the Lapindo mudflow, and ...

Those of us who claim to be rational Permadi think is weird. Yet there are certainly times when we observe an aspect of Indonesian life that we can easily rationalize.

In addition to first ask how Dr. Gigi had so many surgeries, my first "mystery" was Ketok magic, the secret panel beating business, often run by the guys from Blitar in East Java. The word "Ketok" is an onomatopoeia, the sound bite teeth. The "magic" is that it is done behind closed doors, and may also involve aurochs, the imposition of hands. The process is deemed complete urination as it is supposed to protect the car of another accident.

When an Indonesian fall prey to ill health, it is a curse, a punishment for something hurt somewhere along the line. People need to know why they are sick, and what it means. Far greater peace of mind is made with a visit to a dukun than what is owed by a visit to a GP prescription happy.

The mysterious dukun usually specializes as a sorcerer, healer, shaman, medicine man, bone setter, or smart-feller, but some are taken (or jills) -Of-healing-all-trades. Ask someone close to Indonesian colleagues if they have ever visited a dukun, and most say they have not, or will be a little embarrassed to admit it because they now see as " westernized ". However, they will almost certainly know someone who has, perhaps an expat.

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years I had a British colleague who fell ill. He thought the ex-girlfriend had cast a spell on him, although when I asked her she denied. He made regular trips weekend in Banten, West Java, to visit a dukun but did not get better. In his last visit, he had to get a goose egg, a logistical nightmare we all thought. He did improve, but I know from personal experience that glandular fever can do strange things to your mind.

More mysterious is the case of Boy. He was employed by my neighbors, a Glaswegian and his wife to be the residence hairdresser in the living room they had open rooms in front of the house opposite.

Although Boy was very good at his job, he loved to walk and could not always keep the appointments he had made with customers. One weekend, George and his wife went to visit their (and my) furniture manufacturer in his kampung outside Sukabumi. Business concluded, they talked about what happens in our street and George mentioned the problem of Boy. The tukang kayu said he would fix.

For the next month, Boy went nowhere, saying he could not get out - but wanted. George and I remain boggled to date.

Another mystery to me is that in a city that claims to be cosmopolitan, there should be instinctive reactions of City Hall to rumors of ghosts, as happened recently in December last year .

Roxy Ghost When a child is relieved against a mahogany tree in Roxy, Central Jakarta, on 26 November last year a Pocong (shrouded corpse ghost) and kuntilanak (vampiric female ghost) is revealed him. In the hysteria that followed, hundreds of people visited the shaft with at least ten become possessed by spirits.

Thus, the Jakarta Park and Cemetery Agency cut the tree down; however, this was a waste of time as the apparitions apparently moved to an adjacent tree.

chief of the National Police General Timur Pradopo said: ".. People should remain calm The National Police have taken steps Thank you."

And that rather raises the question what he knows about the black magic outside the KPK offices.

ghost hunters should be looking at a sinetron (soap opera) or visit this website: http://www.spookycorner.com/84/haunted-places-in-indonesia/

Recommended places with apparent appearances include Cipto Mangunkusumo hospital in Cikini is plagued by ghosts. A one of the most popular is a doctor with a scalpel and hands covered with blood. "There are also the spirits of the dead (who / what else?) Floating around [at] night (another?) Who show their form to someone who is alone (of course!)."

Later, visit the Jakarta History Museum. The visitors' complain of a strange feeling "as they enter what was once Stadhuis, the administrative headquarters of the East India Company and later the Dutch colonial government. The old prison cells are located under the front portico, and Fatihillah site was used as the place of execution. Is it weird feeling a kinship with the tormented souls?

Finally, "legend has it that there was once a priest or pastor who died in the cemetery Purut Jeruk (in Cilandak) with its head cut off. The real reason he died with his head unknown (really?), but the priest is always accompanied by his dog. "

As for my meetings with the other side, I'll tell you later about the banshee I heard moaning in Ireland, but I have to close now because a butterfly is fluttering and I have to greet my guests expected.

 
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