BERHALA ISLAND
EPISODE 90: WHISPERING THE CRATE DWELLERS

    Maybe people don't believe in superstitious stories. Especially in modern times like today, with advanced technology. But what happened to Bang kohar, a fat man and a buyer of treasure chests that Lesti had already sold. He actually strongly believes that the sacred objects in it there are inhabitants, namely supernatural beings that come from outside the human realm. Usually in the form of the soul of a deceased person or a genie from another realm.

    Indeed, in the school of animism and dynamism, sacred objects are recognized as having supernatural powers. For example, Keris Empu Gandring, which is said to eat human life every time the keris is opened from the container. Likewise with the torch Prabu Siliwangi, which he said if the turban was held, will come out white tigers that can help their owners to fight their enemies. There are still many people who believe in such things. In fact, he said there are those who say that the name agate ruby pomegranate, it can be used to treat all kinds of diseases.

    Likewise with Bang Kohar. The fat man and the brewokan, as if fitting with the piece. His fingers were filled with large agate rings, his left arm was wearing a bracelet from the bahar root, and around his neck was a necklace with a human skull-shaped bandol. Seen cereal. If there is a small child who has met Bang Kohar for the first time, he must be afraid.

    Bang Kohar who is basically happy with such occult things, would be happy and interested when he saw the coffin belonging to Podin whose form is unique, like a treasure chest in the Alibaba story. The green chest that on the edges of the carving is decorated with golden yellow color, indeed for the eyes of an antique fan, impressed very charming and strange. No carpenter can afford to make a chest with such decoration. This box is certainly not made by anyone. Even if there is a handyman who wants to make, definitely ask for expensive fees.

    Therefore, Bang Kohar wants to pay for the crate for five hundred rupiah. Let alone five hundred thousand, had Lesti Tea asked for five million, it would have been paid by Bang Kohar. It is very lucky that Bang Kohar can buy it at a cheap price.

    Now, Bang Kohar, who then kept the chest in his rented house, wanted to know what kind of chest he bought from Lesti. Bang kohar wants to witness strange events that are of course sourced from a unique treasure chest, an antique chest, an ancient chest he bought from Lesti. Yes, Bang Kohar who apparently loved the antiques, on the first night after he brought the former treasure chest belonging to Podin, after the chest was wiped, after the chest was cleared, after the chest was cleaned, and then the other, after the chest was displayed on the table on his bed, he had already started to feel, something seemed to want to come out from inside the treasure chest.

    Yes, Bang Kohar was convinced by the peculiarity of the chest that already belonged to him. Must be in that box there's a resident. At least there is a spirit from nature beyond human reason that hides in it. Of course Bang Kohar was very curious about the waiting for the strange object.

    But the fat man who brewed it, did like antiques like that. He is not afraid of the supernatural creatures of every collected thing. Even he said, ten agate stones attached to his fingers were all inhabitants. Bang Kohar was curious, what exactly the creature in the chest was. Bang Kohar wants to see the creature that will come out of the crate that he bought from his shop Lesti.

    The brewokan man had indeed guessed, that the chest was not a casket carelessly. The chest was truly a very beautiful chest, very beautiful, and very unique. That box-shaped thing with a curved lid was truly a magical coffin. How not strange, because in the crate was not found nails to connect between the wood. In the box also not found a wooden connection. Even the metal carvings that decorate it also have no joints or nails to attach it. It's amazing that a handyman can make a chest that good.

    But of course, the man who was a fan of antiques, Bang Kohar really felt there was something strange in the chest. At least antiques, ancient items like that, there must be creatures that inhabit it, whether it is jinn, or other forms such as spirits that frighten people.

    But for Bang kohar, people who really wrestle with the world of antiques, strange items, unique items, even items that he said can live and move on their own, he said, he was never afraid of the possibilities that would arise from the antiques he had. Like the chest he just bought, Bang Kohar actually wants to see the inhabitants.

    That night, Bang Kohar was curious, wanting to know what creatures inhabited the antique chest. Surely Bang Kohar wants to see, wants to see, wants to know, whether the creature that inhabits the antique chest is creepy, or the creature is scary, or the creature is the form of sangar, or like genderuwo? Is his body tall big and black, or just petite and bald?

    Yes, Bang Kohar was curious to know, what kind of creatures inhabit the coffin. Bang Kohar did not close his eyes. He continued to observe the chest that had begun to feel there were magnetic vibrations that were not as usual. The crate he had placed on his room table, seemed to have emitted a mystical aura, a cold and terrifying aura. But such a thing does not make Bang Kohar afraid, but it makes Bang Kohar more curious and want to know it immediately.

    Indeed, there are people who are not afraid of beings who inhabit supernatural things. There are even those who deliberately maintain for pesugihan. As is the case with the creatures that inhabit the antique treasure chest, which was purchased from his Lesti stall, Bang Kohar wants to see what creatures actually inhabit in the coffin. Is that for the potluck? Or for safety. But why was the crate just left by the owner? Doesn't Podin know the benefits of the crate? Or is Podin just carrying around? I don't know, Bang Kohar has nothing to do with it. Now the most important thing for him, wanted to see what creatures inhabited the coffin.

    Teyapi, it has been a long time that the creature he is waiting for has not come out. Then Bang Kohar took perfume, oil for heirloom objects, nyomgnyong oil that smells very pungent piercing the nose. The oil is commonly used by Bang Kohar to treat antiques. There were keris, there were spears, there was some sort of small figurines, there were rings, and included heirloom objects and other amulets that were unique and antique. Yes, it is a favorite of Bang Kohor, caring for strange objects, things in which there are creatures of its inhabitants. There are even hundreds of agate pieces stored by Bang Kohar, which is certainly believed that in agate there are creatures waiting for it.

    Indeed, every thing that is preserved, every item that is revered, it is an object that is very easy for supernatural beings to enter. As well as agate rings, which are believed by people in general, especially by agate enthusiasts, that there are objects that inhabit it, some occupy, some occupy, there was a magical creature inside the agate. And of course, the supernatural beings are also many kinds, some are good, which he said can help and help people who wear them. But there are also evil ones, which sometimes may be asking for a collision from the wearer of agate.

    Yes, Bang Kohar has all that. There are things that are inhabited by good beings, some are evil, some can help, and some can bring out evil forces. All the antiques in Bang Kohar's rented house there are creatures of its inhabitants.

    But unfortunately, usually items that have evil forces, often used by shamans to send witchcraft. But for Bang Kohar it is not like that. Bang Kohar did not use his antiques for shamanism. Bang Kohar only has the objects as a collection, not to be taken away from his power, not to be asked for help sending crimes, not even to be asked for help to get wealth. But Bang Kohar is only more pleased with the uniqueness, and of course also with the creatures that inhabit in those things.

    Yes, in his rented house, Bang Kohar has many antique objects, which he said all the objects in his rented house there are creatures of its inhabitants, he said, which of course is different in form and nature. He said, all had been seen by Bang Kohar. There are even those who have slept together with Bang Kohar.

    Worth it, his wife and son did not want to live with him, because they were afraid of what Bang Kohar was doing. Of course, his wife, a woman if she sees things that are unusual, will certainly be afraid and no longer want to be in a scary place. Moreover, his children who are still small, will definitely scream hysterically and cry if they see a scary creature. But that was Bang Kohar, who had to contract the house and live alone accompanied by his antiques.

    Because of his curiosity, then in the middle of the night, Bang Kohar poured a special fragrance oil to care for the antiques, wetted into white mori cloth, white color, which is commonly used to wrap the corpse to be buried. And now, after the fragrant oil that smells very stinging was poured on a piece of mori cloth, then Bang Kohar rubbed on the treasure chest he had just bought it. Yes, the crate was smeared with fragrant oil evenly, even to the inside, everything was smeared with perfume. He said, if the sacred object is smeared with perfume, later the creatures that inhabit in the chest will appear, out of the object. Later the creature will usually show itself to people who have rubbed perfume on objects that are inhabited.

    As in the story of the Lamp of the Will owned by Aladdin, in which there is a genie occupant, when the Lamp of the Will was rubbed by hand, when the Lamp of the Will is stroked by Aladdin, the Jin occupant in the Lamp of the Will will come out and give the requests said by the person who rubbed it, the one who had taken the genie out of the Will Lamp. Such was the case, so that Aladdin could be rich and have a magnificent palace, because all his requests were granted by the genie who was in the Lamp of the Will.

    So too did Bang Kohar, who rubbed the treasure chest with perfumes. But of course Bang Kohar did not want to ask for wealth like Aladdin. He just wants to know and want to communicate with the creature in the thing he rubbed with the perfume.

    And it turned out to be true. After a while the chest was wiped with a mori cloth soaked in perfume, it suddenly shook. The chest was giving off a powerful energy. And suddenly, Bang Kohar was shocked.

    "Ocity .... Ooeeee ........."

    From inside the crate, a baby appears to have just been born from the mother's womb. Orok. A crying baby, perhaps from hunger, may ask for milk.

    Bang Kohar could not communicate with the baby who could only tear at it. In Bang Kohar's mind asked, "Whose baby is trapped inside this treasure chest?"