Come Monday, demons hiding under beds scaring little children, rattling behind kitchen pots and breaking bathroom mirrors will have been banished from Bali.
Dancing demons of Nyepi 27 March, 2014 | Source: THE JAKARTA POST Come Monday, demons hiding under beds scaring little children, rattling behind kitchen pots and breaking bathroom mirrors will have been banished from Bali. Families will have banged on kitchen utensils, lit fires and led these bogeymen away and out the front gate, sending them home to the rivers, forests and skies that spawned them. On the Day of Silence, no planes will cross Bali’s airspace, airports will be shuttered and closed, television stations will be switched off and harbors will close, halting the constant arrival of ferries with passengers and vehicles as they make their way southeast across the archipelago. “Here we call this ogoh ‘Sisian’,” says Hendra. “So far we have spent more than US$1300 on materials to build her. On the eve of Nyepi, which we call pengerupukan, we will carry her through the village.”
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