The Angkara Murka
The Book of Pon - Girinata
Pon hamlet, a poor and underdeveloped area on the island. The conditions are in stark contrast to those neighboring hamlets who have built better infrastructure and developed a variety of industries and economies. This situation is supported by the behavior and assumptions of the elders of the hamlet, the elderly and respected people who insist that the Hamlet of Pon should remain like this for reasons that make no sense to most of its citizens: Pon hamlet is one of the magical gates where the entrance of the devil and dark black forces of evil.
For how many generations and descendants, always handed down people who are in charge of guarding sacred places and carrying out certain ceremonies and rituals every Wednesday Pon.
For years, there are sacred places that are still strong and strong conditions, some are weathered eaten by age so that renewal continues. A pair of banyan trees at the end of the field, a stone monument at the intersection of the hamlet road and a hamlet gate are three sacred places that still survive for a long time. However, the wooden stump on the river bank has been replaced several times, with special rituals and placements.
Girinata, as a young man did not believe in these things, so did most young people in the hamlet. Quite unique indeed where in that time, there are still many regions, even those that have advanced, still hold tight to their past beliefs and cultures that are related to the supernatural world. However, maybe Pon Hamlet has been poor for too long so the young people are tired of having to follow the belief that their hamlets have a big responsibility of guarding the inter-world gate. They are tired of having to see peer-to-peer neighbors meeting on the street with new and sophisticated things, while they constantly have to deal with the beliefs, habits and culture of the hamlet.
The young man named Girinata actually came from a family of the richest in the hamlet of Pon. Ironically, poor young people believe in whatever they say. According to Girinata, the wealth of his family is even because they do not believe in stupid things and superstitions like this. With the four places and sacred objects, development in the hamlet will never be achieved. Indeed, wealth makes even the words of trash sound like a beautiful string of charming pearls.
Unfortunately, the incitement and solicitation of young Girinata to his peers for prank or deliberately damaging those esteemed places is still fruitless. Although in thought, the average hamlet, especially those who are young or similar to him, is in line.
Girinata has already included this assumption in his daily life. So, when he married at a young age of eighteen, to Marni, seventeen, Girinata ‘educated his little family's’ with skepticism about the beliefs of their village elders.
The education resulted in Kinanti, the first daughter of Girinata and Marni, who had been a bully and teaser since she was a teenage girl. When he dated Suwarno, grandson of Mbah Darmo, one of the elders of the hamlet, Kinanti did not hesitate to invite Suwarno to make love and mischief near one of the sacred places of this hamlet many times, namely, that is, wooden stumps on the river bank.
When Girinata found out that her daughter was pregnant out of wedlock, she was still angry. He slapped Kinanti twice. This incident is completely unknown to Marni, his wife. Their wealthy family was in a crisis at the time. In fact, no matter how much Girinata is in the occult practices and cultural rituals in his hamlet, he is not among the men who are able to work well and are responsible for the family's wealth.
Girinata was not able to take care of all the efforts of the old father died. In fact, his own mother who still had to step in to take care of these efforts until he died a while later..
"You stupid kid turned out. If you peed on a wooden stump on the river bank or spit on a banyan tree, or scribbled the gate tau kicked a stone monument, to death would be the Father of Defense. But the indecent act you mean is to have sex there, until you get pregnant! Where do you want to put your face? We're in financial trouble, and you're looking for something. You don't want responsibility. Take care of your own pregnancy!"
The wooden stump was a fortress of sorcery. A dozen times the girl was tainted in that place, on purpose. So, all kinds of teluh, dikun-guna and santet spread into the hamlet of Pon freely. Dozens of elders died a few days later. They're vomiting. The fluid that is removed from their bodies contains nails and gotri or small iron balls.
Only a few have survived because they have the ability to fight against these supernatural forces, including Mbah Darmo who at that time had reached eighty years old. Suwarno, the grandson, and his entire family: mother, father, sister, also died horribly with a bulging stomach moments after he made love and was held accountable by Kinanti.
Pon hamlet is in an all-out uproar. Panic and hysterical cries, cries full of pain and deep sadness, and growls of anger and resentment erupted in the sky that day. All the people accused each other of suspicion. The distrust and skepticism of many young men over occult and occult science evaporated with the wind. They are eager to ascertain who did this to their hamlets, or how this could have happened.
Shortly after this great plague, between the sadness of being rejected by the lover and the father, and not willing the baby babang candidates in the stomach will live in suffering later, Kinanti committed suicide by dropping her body into a well behind her mansion.
Girinata stared into the eyes of Wardhani, his son, and his wife Marni. He had to explain everything this time. Nothing can and should be covered up again.
Surprised Wardhani, Marni even Soemantri Soekrasana even though he had to teach.
"Father tried to keep the promise to take full responsibility for Kinanti's behavior. Therefore, your father continues to follow you until now," Girinata told Wardhani and his wife was weak.
The spirit of Kinanti looked blankly at Wardhani and his mother. There was no such familiar look from those dead eyes. The figure only follows his own misfortune and haunts the father.