19 Photos Of Teenagers Who Were Possessed While Watching The Ebeg Show, And I Asked Myself, What Was Their Purpose In Being Possessed?

Almost every weekend in the area around Banyumas Regency there is a performance of Kuda Lumping art or in the Banyumasan language called Ebeg, which is a cultural art that is truly original from Banyumas, Central Java, Indonesia, given that there is absolutely no influence from other cultures. And many viewers come, mostly teenagers, both men and women. Interestingly, there are most teenagers who have Indang.

Indang is Spirit or Khodam which is inserted into the body by arbitrators (elders / Ebeg), Indang obtained by arbitrators from the holy tomb or other mystical places.

For teenagers who have this Indang, I have the nickname, the Janturan Hunter.

Because they came to this show there was only one round that was most awaited by them, namely the Janturan round. Janturan is the ultimate performance in an Ebeg show where the dancers will be possessed so that their behavior is like Bigar (out of control). In this round dancers will perform attractions that can be said to be extreme such as eating flowers, broken glass, jumping onto a cross (bamboo footing which is usually on the Ebeg in the Pond Area), or eating chickens alive. In Janturan not only dancers are possessed, the audience can also participate in trances, usually as a result of being hit by dancers who are in trance or are intentionally possessed because they have Indhang themselves.

Viewers of young people who have a sense of participation in the voluntary Ebeg program. They already have their own association or community that can reach more than 10 people, including 2 people who can get “Njantur” (making ownership and healing it), usually the relevant Ebeg Group on stage is not responsible for the risks. borne by each).

And they will take ownership in Round Spacing. Collisions are the main show in the Ebeg show where the dancers will be owned where the dancers will be possessed so that their behavior is like getting out of control, so that in the round

Mantra is not only a dancer that is owned by the audience, but also can be owned.

They will always be on every Ebeg event, they will create a group on Facebook social media so they always update their schedules around Banyumas district, even though the location is good, they will not hesitate to hunt it down, and cannot be refused. The existence of round hunters This expansion can make the Ebeg look more alive.

Beyond the reasons for what they did, I was interested in the behavior and expression when they were possessed, so I decided to make this photography series.

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1. Dance together before being busy with each other’s unconsciousness

2. Can peel coconut skin with teeth while being trance

3. When he starts trance

4. Feeling a headache when Indang enters

5. A teenager does an unclear movement when he starts trance

6. A man chews betel leaves when he trance

7. Watered so that you are quickly aware of trance

8. Biting the whip strap

9. Helping one friend who will be made aware of Indang

10. One expression of people who are trance

11. A woman who is trance

12. One method of healing people who are trance in the Ebeg show

13. Spell the spell and blow it to the forehead

14. An empty gaze that is trance

15. Healing method by biting a calf in one leg, because it is believed that Indang is nesting there

16. expression when eating broken neon lights

17. It is said that he was possessed by a tiger spirit

18. A teenager is being healed from trance

19. one of the teenagers who is hard to cure from trance

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