Calon Arang (English Version)

Once, there lived in a village in Java, a powerful widow known as the Calon Arang with a beautiful daughter, Ratna Manggali. Magic of widow has spread all over the country, beating her beauty news. The widow did not like hanging out with other villagers. He chose an ascetic solitude so that rural people suspected of practicing black magic or a soothsayer, so she nicknamed Calon arang.

Suspicions new village community proved later after the events of harassment of Ratna Manggali by Rakajasa, son of the village head who wanted to make Rachel as his third wife. Harassment that outrages Calonarang. He then cursed the whole village with the spread of the deadly infectious disease outbreaks.

Violent outbreaks that eventually reached the Daha, capital of the kingdom led Kahuripan Airlangga. The King worried made and then seek to overcome the curse. He grew depressed after learning that apparently the curse is spreading his own mother.

Yes, Calon arang turned out to be queen of the kingdom of Bali to Java who fled with her daughter, Ratna Manggali, younger brother of Airlangga, for allegedly practicing science Desti (black magic).

History first, Calon arang, while still called Mahendradatta, is the daughter of the king Kahuripan. He later married Dharmodayana, king Bali from Warmadewa descent. While his older brother, took the throne as king Dharmawangsa Kahuripan replace the father.

From her marriage with the king Bali, who was born Airlangga then moved to Daha and married his own cousin, the daughter of Dharmawangsa to eventually inherit the throne.

Now, the young king-hit upset-ridden dilemma. On the one hand, he must save the kingdom and its people from the deadly disaster, on the other hand, it means he must fight his own mother as the creator of the disaster. It was a difficult choice.

How does a leader’s inner conflict as Airlangga must be faced injustice committed by his own mother? He also set the strategy by sending loyal friend, Bahula, to marry Ratna Manggali. Airlangga hope, by Ratna Manggali, magic secret Calon arang will be revealed.

As a result, the war had also experienced inner Rachael Manggali. Facing Bahula petition, the husband, she must choose: his mother, whom she loved that had spread teluh or safety of the people. But like many folk tales in which good wins versus evil, EmpuBahula was finally able to know the secrets of science and Calon arang fight bravely.

There are many versions about the end of life Calon arang. Some say Calon arang eventually die, finished his story. There is also a saying, Calon arang was in “ruwat” so that his soul could be accepted heaven.