THE BEDOL KEMBANG
PAEHAN KABEH(DISABLE ALL) CHAPTER 7
“Where do you know that name?” mama asked back. “Pak Ujang said when he saw the name was in the book found by Dewi, Mah,” replied Nining. “Astaghfirullah,” surprised mamah now he believes that the book and the case is the book he has in mind. “Has anyone developed that kawih?” ask mama was-was.
“Nining does not know Mah .. The goddess who holds the book because .. why the hell is Mah?”
“Castrops Ning.”
Nining surprised, “Castrophe? What catastrophe is Mah?”
“The bill is a song that if sung correctly will wreak havoc that claimed lives .. kawih it is known by the name “Tembang Bedol Nyaw” or “Law Removal Develop”, may the death of your two friends have nothing to do with this.”
“So I mean Mamah .. kawih this is mystic?”
“Ning, our karuhun tradition is thick with supernatural and mystical things, nothing to question anymore … kawih is a forbidden topic and the book has long been destroyed by the art of West Java since the eighties.”
“But why can the book appear again?”
“Mamah do not know .. It seems like there is a supernatural thing that attracts him .. I don't know ... Ning, the book does belong to Nyai Galunggung which contains scribbles of heartache and revenge.”
“Kok Mamah knows?”
“You want to know who Nyai Galunggung is?”
Nining nodded.
“Nyai Galunggung it nini (grandmother) you.”
“What?!” shocked Nining.
“Ningrum Arum Natawira is a well-known pesinden in Priangan land from east to west. Many say the sound is very beautiful to make people complacent even some say the sound is like from another nature, full of mystique .. therefore and like the mysterious mountain Galunggung then Ningrum dubbed as, Ningrum, New Galunggung.”
“Name Nyai Galunggung is getting famous, but there are people who envy him and spread the news, that Nyai Galunggung and her husband are witch doctors and somehow, somehow, there are always possessed people in every show .. the story is that some possessed people died a few days later. The news spread again is Nyai Galunggung ask for a collision. Seventies back then the issue of witch doctors was so strong that the community could easily believe and the impact was terrible.”
Mama was silent from her story. Nining's heart was pounding unexpectedly for all this. “Then how to proceed Mah?” Nining was impatient. “You sure you want to continue this story?” Nining nodded. He looked ahead as if he were imagining what was happening.
“One night a group of men came to the house of Nyai Galunggung and her husband. Without warning without even asking, they rampaged blindly and then burned down Nyai Galunggung's house ..”
“Yes Allah,” Ogre Nining.
“Nyai Galunggung who was pregnant at that time managed to save himself but her husband .. not ... Nyai Galunggung saw the husband died before his eyes … and that night Nyai Galunggung swore to kill the lives of those who killed her husband to his descendants ..”
Nining was getting tense listening.
“Cecep Koswara, Engkus Pribados, Tata Subarna, Yayan Wasita ..”
“Who is Mah?”
“The names of the men responsible for the death of Nyai Galunggung's husband … and the names are difficult to forget because the names that make mamah can never meet with abah (father; bhs. Sundanese) for eternity,” mamah rubbed his face. Nining could still see the sorrowful tears on her mama's face as she recounted the events that had happened many years ago.
“But from where do nini know those names Mah?”
“Many people do not believe the news and help nini find out who really spread the slander news Ning.”
“What happens then Mah?”
“After giving birth to Mamah, you leave Mamah to her close friends and she goes to a haunted forest that was once called the Sunda Invisibility on the East Priangan coast and then back again two years later. On the return of Nyai Galunggung, the people responsible for the death of her husband one by one died ... some were hacked into by snakes in the rice fields .. hit by a car .. motor accident .. hang yourself ...”
“News circulating .. Many witnesses say that they heard Nyai Galunggung sing a kawih before the men died .. kawih who was in the book … after that Nyai Galunggung go and disappear for good, he said moksa in the haunted forest.”