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 The Jathilan "Turonggo Mudo" [Horse Trance Dance]-at Borobudur, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia

By: Muhammad Nur Salim 

When Gendhing Jathilan start accelerating things began to change. Dancers are required to move with the tempo of Gendhing being presented. Midway through the end of the show one by one and then the the dancers began to fall unconscious. The handler helps her up after that the dancers started moving to the rhythm of Gendhing is presented on a non consciously or otherwise have experienced ndadi. Physically, the dancers who have experienced ndadi seem hard or twitching, eyes blank and her sometimes erratic moves out of control, rolling, shouting, climbing trees, to fall. Behavior at some of the dancers more similar to the behavior of animals such as tigers, monkeys or horses. Occasionally the dancers drinking flower water, eat incense, mawa (embers), eating a peeled coconut with his teeth and then solved by the head even eat glass (broken glass) without the slightest feeling sick or sad. The dancers have a power beyond the limits of human ability. At the end of the show they were healed to restore consciousness.