Weirdo

i just return home. feel so tired... i even have not take shower yet. hehehe.. :p suddenly memories when I attend my English course with my high school friend, I have an usual experience. We studied about superstitious phenomena. As we know Indonesia  have so many supertitous thing.

My theacher  asked us to make a mini talk about superstitious phenomena because for the next meeting  we will follow promotion test. So she need to take our speaking skill mark. She gave us some time to create our mini talk.  We had finished the mini talk and  time for us to perform in front of the class.

The first perform was presented by Hamdi, he told us about unusual dream, he said if he dream about holding party that’s mean one of your  family will pass away soon.  And all student has their own turn to present their mini talk. They tell about going under a ledder can bring you bad luck, if break a mirror, you will have seven years of bad luck, hit a cat might bring you to a bad luck, etc. when I was listening to them I got bored, because I often hear that superstition. But, when I heard Utty superstition story, I excited, the reason why I got excited to hear her story is, she told us about Bunian people. bunian people is kind of  ghost. But their appearance likely a man. They like to hunt a baby and holding party in the middle of night. After I heard Utty’s story, on my way home I felt someone wishpering me. For the first time I thought that just my feeling because I was too tired that’s why I felt some one wishper to me, but the mysterious voice became louder and louder. Hmmm im sorry I cant continue my story, because it’s really make me scared.   Ok let’s talk about something else ok? Hmm I stil talk about superstition.

Do you know Pesugihan? Pesugihan is a form of ritual to ask for wealth from a supernatural power. Usually people got o a place like mount to meet a sorcerer. The sorcerer will give them instructions to be carried out later as a requirement for the wealth asked. After the requirements have been fulfilled, a sudden wealth is expected. However, to maintain the wealth, offering must be given to the supernatural creature they worship.

There are many supernatural creatures that people usually worship to get wealth, for example Nyi Roro  Kidul, or Nyi Blorong. Many people do that as a shortcut to be rich. They’re ready to sacrifice everything to get what they want. Sometimes they even forget all the consequences of this ritual, like losing the lives or their loved ones. You see, these supernatural creatures usually ask offering of the soul of the people related the worshippers in order to keep the wealth given by the creatures.

For me, that unlogical. But that really happen, I don’t know how it happened. But I see this ritual as an act againt God. Every religion teaches us to ask for anything from God and not to get too obsessed with wealth. In addition Pesugihan also bring us more problems than the fortunate itself.