Pocong Ghost Problem Haunting Community in Indonesia's West Java
Jakarta Globe | December 04, 2009
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345475Listen up you inconsiderate readers, it's called Soft News and it's always a nice change from the seriously depressing issues. Coming from Australia, I find it interesting that there are still communities with such beliefs out there and you're a bunch of tossers for laughing at them.
On the contrary Concerned. A story such as this, ludicrous as it may be, throws the lives of the credulous, uneducated unwashed that dwell in the villages into sharper relief than ten exposes on education underfunding. There's more than one way to skin a cat.
@ Marms
I wouldn't consider this story "news" and think the editorial staff of national newspaper would/should have the foresight to read the Detik.com article, laugh and leave this silly tale to the more tabloid of the news gatherers.
Giving any creedence to the story as the Globe have done, does as Wong Edan stated.. "makes their country a laughing stock".
I have no concern about the story, other than there is nothing factual about it, and I need to trust the paper I read.
I purchase the Globe to deliver me news, not 3rd rate village gossip, about "Graveyard Mummies stealing TV's"
My two cents..
Concerned from Kemang: Why shoot the messenger just because you don't like the news?
Er... Is this the 20th Century? Are these people happy that stories like this make their country a laughing stock?
A village near the Bogor Institute of Agriculture has a problem with a
ghost with a penchant for stealing televisions, locals have said.
The
pocong, a ghost clad in a white burial shroud, has reportedly been
preying on the village of Dramaga Tengah in West Java, which is home to
more than 150 families, for the past month. But in the past two weeks,
it has begun to steal personal property.
The spate of ghostly
thefts, according to detik.com, prompted about 30 armed villagers to
attempt to lure the pocong out from hiding using a fake pocong —
essentially a man dressed in a shroud who jumps around the village.
“The
people initiated the search for the pocong because many homes reported
they had lost their television sets,” Wawak, one of the villagers, told
the news portal on Wednesday. The operation lasted several hours but
failed to capture any apparition.
In folk mythology,
particularly in Java and Sumatra, a dead person will transform into a
pocong if the bounds of its shroud become untied after the body is
buried. This is related to a Muslim tradition that requires the
deceased to be wrapped in a cloth when they are buried.
Because pocong are completely bound, they can only move around by jumping or flying.
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