Wet Talk: I am blogging this @ Starbucks Coffee while waiting to catch my flight from Miri back to Kuching. It is a rare luxury to have so much time to kill or to blog. So here goes.)
Although I enjoy the company of like minded friends and strangers, I love to paddle and cycle alone as I can do so at my own pace and curiosity - so that I can stop and look at or photograph whatever takes my fancy without holding anyone back. And on some of my solo trips I have come across strange and sometimes bizarre situations and objects out in the middle of nowhere. And each time I had been so taken aback that I forgot to video or photograph the encounter or object. But on last Sunday on my cycling trip to Beliong I came across an object tied to the wooden post of an old decrepit hut as I was seeking out shade from the burning afternoon sun. I was startled to discover that it is a voodoo charm of sort - as it was a small ‘doll’ replica of a human inside a liquid filled glass jar impaled with a big needle/pin!
The discovery spooked me and I immediately stepped out of the old hut and move on. However after cycling away for a couple of minutes, I began thinking that if I relate this ‘tale’ to my friends they would probably ridicule this as a figment of my creative imagination or that I can sure tell an amusing story - if I don’t have any photographic proof. So I turned my bike around and cycled back. However as I got nearer I suddenly have silly misgivings that if I photographed the object, I may got charmed instead! I braked and hesitated; sweating and huffing as I baked under the hot sun. I finally took out my Canon G9 and zoomed it all the way out, took a quick snap and pedaled furiously away. I was a ten year old kid.
Is this object a black magic charm or just someone’s perverted idea of an elaborate joke? Maybe it was put there to scare away nosy (ten year old) children or superstitious villagers from the hut for whatever reasons? What do you think?
Inexplicable objects in strange remote places are better to be left well enough alone (well, saved perhaps for a zoom shot from a respectable distance). Whatever.
I’m not superstitious but I don’t know if this has anything to do with the above but two most unfortunate incidents happened to me yesterday (but which I’m not going to elaborate). Let’s just say that it was unpleasant. Sheer bad luck? Maybe - but if I do die suddenly, you can then all speculate if this has anything to do with my Sunday ‘discovery’ @ Beliong. Ha ha ha! But please don’t laugh lah.
Have a great weekend and remember that curiosity kills the cat - so stay away from strange objects and people. But look who’s talking! Whatever.
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unker, you very daring la. i won’t have the guts to snap the pic after having such second thoughts!
wah rao eh.. still got second thought of going back and take a snap!! the voodoo doll looks different from the one we see in movies. Why got water inside the glass and are those colorful thingy, jelly candies?
Unker, next time just pedal fast fast away! lol
silveraven - not daring lah; just typically plain foolhardy sometimes!
annna - i think the colourful thingy are pieces of clothing on the ‘doll’ that came off over time. No idea about the liquid in the jar though!
It looks too ‘colorful’ to be be ‘anything spooky or evil’ hihi
oh dear, do be careful. Kuching Kayaking needs you loh.
It does look like a charm of sorts. That yellow thing inside the jar looks a bit like a crocodile penis (fake? real?) to me.
Aiyer..
*pengsan*
woOoowwww