THE SANDRO BUGIS
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- THE SANDRO BUGIS
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- Buginese
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- Syarmilasari
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THE SANDRO BUGIS I learned about this folktale from a friend. Though this story takes place in Jeneponto Regency, it is also known in several other districts in South Sulawesi such as Sinjai, Bulukumba, and Bone. I come from a family that believes in the existence of Sandro. In my village there are several Sandros that I know of and I have witnessed the treatment process carried out by the Sandro. In a village in Jeneponto Regency, Rappe and his wife, Upe, lived with their youngest daughter, Saddia. Their two older children, Pagga and Syamsul, had both graduated university and were travelling the world. In her second year of junior high, Saddia become gravely ill. She lay in bed, twisting and turning in pain underneath a long batik cloth. Rappe and Upe took her to the nearest health centre and then to the hospital, but no one could determine why she was so ill. She took the medication that had been suggested by the neighbours and the medication prescribed by the doctor, but they made no difference. As the days passed, Saddia’s condition worsened. She grew so thin that her body became corpse like, and she was unable to move her legs. Rappe and Upe were advised to take Saddia to the Sandro When they arrived, the Sandro asked for a glass of water. After he had read the holy verse of the Koran, he blew the water three times and asked Saddia to drink and wash her body with the water. Saddia screamed as she began to wash. An evil spirit had entered her body. The Sandro began to speak to the evil spirit. ‘Who are you? Why did you enter and torture this child's body?’ ‘I envy your family,’ Saddia replied, ‘and I want to destroy it.’ The Sandro began to read another verse and, as he did so, the evil spirit left Saddia’s body. ‘There is someone close to you that is jealous of the success of your family,’ the Sandro explained. In the weeks that followed, Saddia quickly healed as she continued to wash her body with the water from the Sandro. Her parents returned to the Sandro to thank him, but he replied, ‘Your daughter’s healing was not because of me, but because of Allah. I was only an intermediary for what Allah had planned.
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