MYSTERIES

Mystery in my place

Hello fellas, how have you been? I hope all of you are always healthy. So, this time I want to discuss about mystery. When you first hear the word mystery, what is the thing that comes to your mind? 

For me, when I hear the word mystery, the things that popped into my mind are occult, supernatural, magical, and creepy things that give me goosebumps. According to wikipedia, the meaning of mystery is something that is not known with certainty and attracts people's curiosity. Mystery is usually associated with horror and supernatural events.

Examples of things that are considered mysteries:

1. Loss of ships and aircraft in the Bermuda Triangle region.

2. The presence of the sea monster "Nessie" in Loch Ness, Scotland.

3. How the rocks at Stonehenge formed

Nazca Lines painter.

4. Giant paintings that unfold in the desert.

5. Unknown flying objects called UFOs.

Every place has to have events, creatures, or objects that the local people have considered mysterious and widely believed.

Likewise in my place, as I have told before in previous post, I live in a small village in North Sumatra. I come from the Batak tribe, where many places, events, and mysterious creatures are considered real by the residents in the Batak area. One of them is a mysterious creature called "Homang".

Almost all Bataknese have known what is meant by the Homang, although not everyone believes in this creature because no one has seen this creature directly. All Bataknese who know this creature usually knew it from many oldster who used to scare their children if they are undisciplined. Same with me, when I was a child, my parents used to scare me when I cried. She said that children who cry a lot will be taken away by Homang and bring them in to a tall tree. There the Homang will tickle all the children to death. Homang also likes to make children who used to travel alone get lost. They lead children astray by imitating the voice of the children's parents, and telling them to follow their voices. They will get the child to a faraway place and when the kids get lost they'll leave them there alone. They usually lead the children to the middle of the jungle. That's why when I was a kid, I don't want to go everywhere by myself. 

Actually I have never seen Homang directly but from the stories of many people, they said that the shape and appearance of Homang is like a monkey but its size is bigger, the fur is so long that it touches the ground, and its legs are reversed. So, if we see the traces of Homang as seen away from us, it is actually closer to us. If we meet Homang in forest we have to run as fast as possible so they can't approach us and close our ears so we can't hear their voices because they can hypnotize us by changing their voices into our parents' voices or whoever that we know. 

Sources:

https://id.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misteri#:~:targetText=Misteri%20adalah%20sesuatu%20yang%20belum,pesawat%20di%20wilayah%20Segitiga%20Bermuda

https://www.dreamstime.com/photos-images/mystery-word.html