Monday, October 11, 2010

The Bomah Business is Booming

BOMAH - Bomoh is a generic term for persons practicing folk medicine in South East Asia. Basically, a spiritual service provider. There are different types of bomohs out there; good and bad, easily distinguishable by the manner and methods they employ for healing. Some are affiliated to religions and some are not

NST - It looked like a scene from the 1982 horror movie Poltergeist when two bomoh allegedly captured nine djinns at the home of a woman yesterday.

The girl became the talk of her village when she allegedly vanished on several occasions, only to be found in odd places like inside a cement mixer and a cemetery.

The parents of Siti Balqis Mohd Nor, 22, were relieved with the success of the two bomoh and hoped their life would return to normal as the djinns were said to be behind the woman's mysterious disappearances.

Hundreds of residents flocked to the home of Siti Balqis when they heard that the "culprits" had been captured and imprisoned in special containers.

Curious onlookers jostled to take photos and video footage of the containers and the djinns said to be inside.

The two bomoh, who refused to be identified, offered their services for free on Friday after reading about Siti Balqis' plight in newspapers.

At 7.30pm, one of them started praying inside the family home while the other recited verses outside the front door.

About 15 minutes later, the bomoh outside the house saw a figure dashing away.

He gave chase and captured it. Subsequently, eight more djinns were captured one by one as they tried to flee.

The bomoh said the sealed containers would be thrown into the sea so that the djinns would not bother anyone again.

Siti Balqis' mother, Norizan Said, 47, said 17 bomoh had offered their services since her daughter's story appeared in the newspapers recently.

She said the family had forked out thousands of ringgit to pay for the services of about 100 bomoh since Siti Balqis started vanishing at odd hours two months ago.

"However, after my daughter's plight was highlighted in the media, many bomoh came to offer their services for free.

"The whole family is relieved by the latest development," she said.

Siti Balqis said she stopped vanishing two days ago and just wanted to carry on with life now that the "culprits" responsible for spiriting her away had been captured.

"I cannot say how grateful I am for all the help that has been given to us.

"I am relieved to be able to live without the fear of suddenly finding myself alone in strange places," she said.

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Malaysian Bomohs Catch 12 More Spirits

asiaone - Three healers from Terengganu Islamic Foundation (YIT) claim they captured 12 more djinns from the house of Siti Balqis Mohd Nor after she disappeared again on Saturday night.

Her family thought her ordeal was over when two bomoh captured nine djinns on Friday and put them in sealed containers.

Yesterday, however, the 22-year-old, who is the eldest of four children, claimed she was whisked away to a cave about 15km from her home in Kampung Gong Nangka here.

She mysteriously disappeared at 7.30pm, minutes before state religious and information committee chairman Khazan Che Mat, YIT director Kamarul Al Amin Ismail and YIT officials arrived at her home with the healers.

Hundreds of residents searched around the house and at locations that she had been found in previous disappearances but this proved futile.

At 11.30pm, her mother Norizan Said, 47, received an SMS from Siti Balqis, saying that she had been taken to a cave in Bukit Keluang.

Jabi assemblyman Ramlan Ali headed a rescue team to Bukit Keluang but they only found seven men and two women who were meditating (bertapa) inside the cave.

Two hours later, Siti Balqis sent another SMS, saying she had been whisked home but had landed on a rambutan tree.

Siti Balqis was pale and unconscious when rescuers brought her down from the rambutan tree.

The three Islamic medical practitioners said they captured 12 djinns after treating her.

Siti Balqis only regained consciousness at 5am and told her mother she saw Ramlan and other rescuers at Bukit Keluang cave but none of them could hear her calls.

"I even tried to touch Ramlan's wife as she passed by me but she did not see me," she said.

Meanwhile, Khazan said the medical practitioners were sent by the state government to help the family.

NOTE: here are two more related links: Siti Balqis’ vanishing acts have tongues wagging and Bomoh shivers when facing woman...Lon


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