'Leak' was a human who is practicing black magic and have cannibalistic behavior. It is said that Leak is flying around try to find a pregnant woman in order to suck her baby's blood or a newborn child, to complete her magical skill. There are three legendary Leak, two females and one male. Leak with the great magic skill can transform into 'Rangda', queen of black magic. Leak is said haunt the graveyards, feed on corpses, have power to change themselves into animals, she even take the form of a monkey with golden teeth or a massive rat, a ball of fire and even a bald-headed giant. It is said that she have an unusually long tongue and large fangs.
In daylight she appear as an ordinary human, but at night her head and
entrails break loose from their body and flying around. Her powerful
enemy is 'Barong', a character in the mythology of Bali. He is the king of
the spirits, leader of the hosts of good. 'Barong' and 'Rangda' exist in
the natural order of the cosmos and represent as Good and Evil. Both
'Barong' and 'Rangda' are cemented in Balinese legend.
The legend of 'Leak' in Bali refers to a horrible black magic inspired
drama with the key figure of 'Calon Arang'. There was a widow called 'Calon Arang' at the village of 'Girah' having a
beautiful daughter. Her daughter name is 'Ratna Manggali', who has reached
her adultery, but no one among youths from the village and surrounding
had the courage to approach the virgin. This is because her mother is
known to have black magic knowledge, and practiced it maliciously, and
with her bad attitude causing many people were dead even hatred was
increasing among the people, yet this is used as a temptation to her
thirsty black magic need. Her bad reputation at last reached the palace, and some soldiers took
initiative and asked permission to the king to punish the widow. The
soldiers headed to the village of 'Girah' and found her sleeping. One
solder drag her by her hairs, but unfortunately she awaken and once she
was startled she glared with her 2 wild eyes emanating fire shooting and
burnt the soldier, the other took a hundred steps of flee but again her
blitz eye fires burnt them except one solder survived the malicious
black magic fur. This soldier then reported his horrible experience to
the king, and made the king totally upset and run out of reason to
overcome the problem. 'Calon Arang' know that the palace involved in this
scandalous act of murder trial, and she become uncontrollably angry and
spread her magic malicious power causing great epidemic.
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