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At last, after all her assailants have been dragged away, Rangda is carried out in trance. Outside, in another temple court, the priest made offerings on the ground, while several men held Rangda up. Then the mask was taken off and put in a basket, and the amazingly small, frail boy who had played Rangda, and perhaps also Basoer, sank to the ground again in trance.
The same kind of awe attaches to a performance of Basoer as of Tjalonarang, and it is very rarely given. About a year ago, during the final dance of Rangda, a man rushed forward from the far end of the ground, and stabbed her violently again and again, then turned the kris with great violence upon himself. He remained in deep trance for nearly an hour

They lift their lances and advance outwards. At this moment the Boris umbrellas are carried into the temple, and Rangda under a single small white umbrella, and begins to race round the tree. All the lance bearers, who have collected in a great group by the temple steps, come and sit by the gamelan, in two groups on either side of the offerings, holding their lances upright. Rangda dances forward with characteristic cries and gestures, and performs a wild figure in front of the returning Boris dancer. In a fight Rangda is thrown to the ground. But she quickly rises and resumes her will dance, and is finally left in possession. All the dancers now collect forward, kneeling in four rows with spears erect. They lower their lances with a great cry and close in on Rangda, who disappears under their downward-pointing spears.

Meanwhile Rangda went on shrieking and dancing, and it was only when the actor was being undressed that he saw blood on his kain and realized that he had been wounded. Almost immediately he collapsed and a doctor was sent for. But before they reached the hospital he was dead.
We heard that the kris which inflicted the wound had been given to the man, who was a great friend of the man he unconsciously killed, by a priest, with the warning not to use it on that occasion, a warning which he unfortunately forgot.

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