DON’T PEE IN NATURE WHILE IN BALI…YOU CAN PEE ON A SHRINE AND HAVE A CURSE ON YOUR GENITALS

Nationality: Indonesian
Age: 48
Occupation: Shopkeeper
Residence: California
Performance Date: 4-24-2018
Language: Indonesian Primary / English Secondnary

DON’T PEE IN NATURE WHILE IN BALI…YOU CAN PEE ON A SHRINE AND HAVE A CURSE ON YOUR GENITALS

 

Main Piece: (rough English translation)

 

There are a lot of shrines here in the jungles/wild/forests/beaches of Bali. Sometimes you do not know whether or not a place is sacred and there are a lot of tourists or people even (natives) who would just go to a bush and pee there – but then they would pee on a sacred space, like a shrine or part of a temple and then spirits of that temple/shrine would get very mad and curse them – their genitals.

 

Their genitals (penises) would get very swollen (in a very bad way), like purple or blue, for a very long time, until they would go to a witch doctor/shaman, and do what’s necessary for them to heal.

 

Background Information:

Why do they know this piece?

It is important to know things like this when you are going through the jungle/forests/beaches/the wild because it is important to protect yourself from bad situations like this.

 

Where/Who did they learn it from?

Friends, family accounts of tourists, taxi drivers.

 

What does it mean for them?

Do not go around peeing anywhere/everywhere when you are in the jungle.

 

Context of Performance:

Talking to mother through the phone.

 

Thoughts:

My mother told me this when I was in Bali and I did not pee anywhere in the wild just to be safe. Always used a bathroom.