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A form of get-rich-quick dark magic, pesugihan babi. This bestial transformation has the capabilities of robbing entire villages blind during the dark of the night.
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A form of get-rich-quick dark magic, pesugihan babi. This bestial transformation has the capabilities of robbing entire villages blind during the dark of the night.
Keong Emas and Ureongi Gaksi
aka Snail Brides!
Keong Emas or Golden Snail
A Javanese folktale about a princess magically transformed and contained in a snail shell.
This story is a part of the Panji cycle, along with Inao/Panji.
We see separated lovers, a covetous kidnapper king and divine intervention, along with the kindness of strangers culminating in a touching reunion between Raden Panji Asmoro Bangun and Dewi Sekartaji.
As with the other Panji tales, there are various versions of this story, along with a number of different names.
Ureongi Gaksi - The Snail Bride
A Korean folktale featuring a poor man instead of a prince.
Working in the rice paddy one day, he grumbled about having no one to eat with (because he was too poor to have a wife) and a mysterious voice told him to "eat with me."
Looking around, all he could see was a snail, so he took that home and eventually discovered that the snail could transform into a beautiful woman.
He made her his wife but one day a rich magistrate caught a look at the woman and decided to kidnap her for himself.
The husband went looking for her but could not find her, no one was willing to help a poor man over a magistrate and he eventually died of a broken heart, being reborn as a blue bird.
The magistrate refused to let the snail bride go and so she starved herself to death.
There are a number of versions of this story as well, most with tragic ends although there is a version that reunites the poor man and the snail bride.
There is also a similar Chinese Folktale known as the River Snail Maiden which includes a man finding a shell and thus a wife, and that bride being kidnapped by a rich man. While the story plays out differently, the ending is another tragic tale, more similar to the Korean story than the Javanese one.
:. Wewe Gombel is a female ghost in Javanese folklore. It is said that she kidnaps children and hides them under her breasts vía: @WhoresofYore .: