Narrative Text Calon Arang
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Calon Arang
It is said that Calon Arang was a widow, powerful in black magic, who often damaged farmer’s crops and caused disease to come. She had a girl, named Ratna Manggali, who, though beautiful, could not get a husband because people were afraid of her mother. Because of the difficulties faced by her daughter, Calon Arang was angry and she intended to take revenge by kidnapping a young girl. She brought the girl to a temple to be sacrificed to the goddess Durga. The next day, a great flood engulfed the village and many people died. Disease also appeared.
King Airlangga, who had heard of this matter, then asked for his advisor, Empu Baradah, to deal with this problem. Empu Baradah then sent his disciple, Empu Bahula, to be married to Ratna. Both were married with a huge feast that lasted seven days and seven nights, and the situation returned to normal.
Calon Arang had a book that contained magic incantations. One day, this book was found by Empu Bahula, who turned it over to Empu Baradah. As soon as Calon Arang knew that the book had been stolen, she became angry and decided to fight Empu Baradah. Without the help of Durga, Calon Arang was defeated. Since she was defeated, the village was safe from the threat of Calon Arang’s black magic.
Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org
The possibly new vocabulary for you:
1. widow: a woman whose husband has died and who has not married again
2. revenge: something that you do to hurt or punish someone because they have hurt you or someone else
3. intended: an intended target, victim etc is the one that an action is aimed at or trying to reach
4. sacrificed: to give up something important or valuable so that you or other people can do or have something else
5. engulfed: to cover or surround something in a way that harms or destroys it
6. disciple: someone who admires a famous person such as a political or religious leader and is influenced by them
7. incantations: words that are repeated together several times because they are thought to have special power
8. defeated: to win against someone in a game, fight, or election
9. huge: extremely large in size
10. feast: a large meal, a large meal for a lot of people, usually in order to celebrate something
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