Monday, April 19, 2010

Dancing Under the Tree

You may believe it or not, but this is a story once I heard from one of my Balinese friends. There is a kind of mango fruit in Bali. Local people call it "wani" fruit (sorry, I still don't find the Latin name). The taste is sweet and delicious, they say it's more delicious than mango. Even it has nice fragrance. But they say, you have to be careful when you take the fruit from the tree by yourself. If you don't ask permission to the spirit that guards the tree, after consuming the fruit, you will be exposed to a kind of allergic symptom, itchy will be around your body. So, how do we heal the symptom if accidentally get this itchy attack? This is the strange part, you should practise dancing under the "wani" tree and bring an offering (Balinese offering) to the spirit. If you practise this, your allergic symptom will soon dissapear. You may go to the doctor to cure this allergic symptom. But in my opinion, what's the loss to try dancing under the tree if it can cure your itchy faster? Next time I will post a picture of the"wani" tree here.