THE BEDOL KEMBANG
NYAI GALUNGGUNG BAG 1
“You know where all these stories come from?”
“From Nyai Galunggung's close friend whom Mamah entrusted and eventually became Mamah's adoptive parents … Ning you have to ask your friends if any of them developed that kawih and find out what is the name of your friends' grandfathers all.”
“Good Mah.”
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The goddess was thinking, where would she ask about this kawih karuhun and Nyai Galunggung? Who knows about this legendary bird? The goddess finally decided to ask her mother. The goddess approached her mother who was sitting in the backyard. His eyes stared blankly because in his mind was raging thoughts about the death of his daughter's friends who became the talk of the village and he was surprised when Dewi patted his shoulders, “Astgahfirullah Wi! Just ngagetin you!” Dewi pulls up a chair and sits in front of her mother, “Ambu kok daydreaming anyway? Waggle what?”
“Ga daydreaming nothing, just again inget same brother you who again work outside the city,” said ambu divert what is really in his mind. “Alba well kok Ambu, was abis same phone Dewi .. abah surprised to hear the news of the death of Esih and Wira,” said Dewi.
“Iya .. Ambu was also shocked ... why are they that close? Suicide?”
“They ga suicide Ambu,” argue Goddess.
“You mean?” ambu looked seriously at the Goddess.
“What? What do you mean Wi?”
The goddess took out the seedy book and handed it to her mother and told her everything. Ambu was still fixated on hearing the story of the Goddess while looking at the book and in his mind ambu increasingly believe what happened to Esih and Wira is not ordinary death his guess is right as raging in his mind.
“Did Ambu know about this kawih and about Nyai Galunggung? Dewi does not know who to ask, it feels like everyone who Dewi asked about Nyai Galunggung all closed his mouth.. Dewi confused Ambu ..”.
Ambu was silent as if hesitant to tell a story but he saw Dewi was very depressed with the death of his two friends then Ambu decided to tell what he knew.
“Wi, they are afraid to tell about Nyai Galunggung, even taboo for some people here to call the name ... but Ambu will tell you as much as Ambu knows … so Nyai Galunggung was a famous sinden in the seventies in West Java, but word circulated, if she and her husband were shamans to be famous, to be famous, then the villagers drove them away and beat her husband to death.Nyai Galunggung was angry and vowed to avenge the people who killed her husband even to her grandchildren … almost all the villagers who were there at the time of the incident heard the oath and all were terrified.”
“And the book, it seems indeed the notebook ... and the kawih .. is a forbidden kawih to sing.”
“Why Ambu?” The goddess was getting anxious to hear it.
“It was no ordinary kawih Wi... the art sepuh West Java agreed that the kawih was too dark and mystical so it was forbidden to be brought by the pesinden … especially because the kawih was written by Nyai Galunggung to call the evilest demon in the land of Sunda ... his name .. Kunti Hideung ...” Ambu shrink his voice when calling the name then immediately read ta’awudz.
“Kata legendanya Ambu hear from the sepuh this village .. the appearance of this figure wearing black clothes, long black hair, does not have eyeballs, the appearance of this figure is wearing black clothes, long black hair, does not have eyeballs, there were only two hollow cavities in black and this figure was extremely ruthless, could be told to kill, could resemble all sorts of things … he was happy to lick the wounds of his dead victims then make him alive again to die elsewhere as if suicide or accident .. but … people should live in that haunted forest and be the darkest part of his world.”