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The lack of definition, giving a curious effect of ghostliness, which it is possible to produce on the shadow-screen by a skilful manipulation of the light is brilliantly used by one dalang during the passage of Grantang from one of his manifestations into another; a parcel soaked with sea-water into a child, a child into a handsome youth, and by clipping with big scissors into the perfect Arjuna type. The beasts in the forest, the dogs set on him by Tjoepak, the fishes in the sea, and the wonderful animals who marched into the dishes at Tjoepak's feast were all portrayed with exquisite and fantastic humor. Another favourite comic scene in Wajang Koelit is the discovery by the fisherman's wife of four feet sticking out behind a screen, in his hut by the shore, and her belaboring of him and her pretended suicide on the assumption that Grantang's feet belong to a woman.

Like Tjoepak and Basoer, Tantri is the name not of a dance-form but of an individual story within a dance-form, which has imposed its name and been accepted as a type. Tantri is the name of the Javanese version of the Hindu Pancatantra, which is a variant of the wide-spread thousand and One Nights theme, in which a king demands a fresh virgin every night to satisfy his appetite, till a particularly gifted girl, in this case Tantri, the only daughter of the Prime Minister, who has been responsible for the supply of virgins, succeeds in so captivating the attention of the king by her unfinished animal stories that night follows night and still he lives only for the diverting end. At last she becomes so indispensable to him that the king makes her his wife.

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