This is a semi historical story taking place sometime during the reign of King Airlangga in
Very often Calonarang practices her magic power in the middle
of the village cross-roads, and so the village is always in trouble. Many
people have died of her pestilences while others were living in fear. Knowing
that his people were in trouble the king then asked a great ascetic of Lemah
Tulis, named Empu Beradah, to solve this problem. The priest, who also has a
great magic powers, then orders his son Bahula to marry Ratna Manggali and get
the secret of her mother’s magic powers.Ratna Manggali steals the lontar
palm-leaves herself, where her mother’s magic power is inscribed in the form of
magic sentences, and gives them to her husband, by whom then it is given to
Empu Baradah to be read. After reading the secret the priest meets the
widow-witch to ask her to purify herself, but Calonarang refuses for she knows that
purification means “sacrifices herself”. She believes that her power is the
strongest in the world and only Durga (the wife of Shiva) herself could defeat
her. However at last Calonarang is killed, not by the priest, but by own powers.
She forgot that Durga’s power were too strong for her, and as a result, when
Durga comes to her aid, she is burnt out by the power that Durga gives to her.
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