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pemangkoe in trance, ordered a crow-feather
costume to be made. The villagers never thought of questioning this
command, so they decided to pawn their costly gamelan, still partly
unpaid for, to a Chinaman for a year in exchange for a crow-feather
costume. Meanwhile it was revealed to the priest that the crow-feathers
could be found in a remote temple, if offerings to the amount of twenty-five
gulden were made. And sure enough, every night for fifteen days hundreds
of crows settled on the single tree in that small temple, and shuddered
their wings so that the feathers fell thick as snow-flakes on the
ground. For fifteen mornings the priest gathered the feathers, and
the Barong's coat was made.
The first Barong about which we have any knowledge is connected with
a very early episode in this very village of Bedoeloe, which was then
probably the capital of some of the greatest Balinese kings. Giriputri,
the wife of Civa, appeared in response to the prayers of the king,
and promised to save the land from pestilence if on a certain day
special. Offerings were made, to entice the three ogres who had been
invading human bodies and destroying them to enter the body of a Barong,
Sang-kala-gede, i.e. Lord Great-Ogre, which must be taken round at
Galoengan (New Year) to receive offerings and money. It is added that
a later very famous king who thought the offerings superfluous and
ordered them to be stopped was killed by Indra.
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