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A woman attendant, next appears, and in the course of her dance explains that she is the servant of a distant raja who has sent offerings for the dead, and that she is impatient for the arrival of the bearers. Soon three comic impersonators of women arrive with offerings on their heads and do eccentric graveyards dance. Two more servants of the raja, in white and black check, with whitened faces, do some exceedingly funny parodies of classical dances and of priests making offerings. Finally Kalekek, as the Barong, comes down the temple steps and trots about, laughing with glee at the sight of so much good rice. She is of course supposed to be invisible, and the people, hearing her laugh, fly helter-skelter into the bushes and up the trees, gibbering with fright, while the Barong, with clacking jaws, treads delicately among the abandoned offerings and kicks them over with one flick of his hoofs.

During the hubbub on the dance-ground offerings are being made to the mask of Rarong in a little shrine under the banyan-tree, on a lower level than the graveyards and soon her terrible apparition emerges from the bushes, to in vestigate the invisible laugh in the graveyard. With much prancing, gurgling, and roaring she advances to meet Kalekek, while the comic servants, too paralyzed with fear even to scream, dodge between the legs of the demon antagonists with fantastic dumb show of fear, and perform prodigies of equilibrium. Rarong reproaches Kalekek for stealing the food of the dead, and they stalk one another about the stage, which now begins to be invaded by incipient witches, leyak followers of Rangda, on whom Rarong has called for help. One of these, a round white pouting mask, with an expression of beatific idiocy, steals in and out of the temple gate, vaguely peering, prepared at any moment to be puffed out by a breath, yet always lurking ready to reappear.

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