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SKULL OF GOAT HEAD

SEMILIR The morning wind from the top of the mountain blows slowly on the leaves among the branches of trees that have been wet by the dew in the morning. The beautiful and cool natural scenery is located at the foot of the mountains in Java kulon. The mountain covered by its green trees that grow around its rock walls is named Peach Mountain. Named Peaches Mountain because in the past in the foothills of the mountains are a lot of Peach trees that grow wild. I don't know who planted it, though, until then it is still a mystery of the name of the mountain was said to have been from ancient times referred to by the name of Mount Peaches by ancestors who lived on the foot of the mountain.

Climbing the mountain, it looks neatly lined houses that still look slum.the houses of the population on average are still made of bamboo cubicles and boards as the walls of his house. The crowd of residents in the village usually looks crowded doing their respective activities when the morning before noon.

But this time the crowd seemed to be gone. Only a few people were seen on the move and on average only seen a few mothers who were sweeping the yard of his house and some small children were playing marbles in front of his house. In front of the house walled bamboo cubicles, a young man was seen sitting on a wooden couch in front of his house made of bamboo cubicles as well. The young man was seen busy packing things he would bring to hunt animals into the forest.

The young man did his job day-to-day hunting animals into the forest and all came home with firewood for the cooking purposes of his mother. The results of his hunting are erratic, sometimes he gets birds in large numbers.sometimes he gets squirrels, deer, Forest ducks, etc, forest Chicken and Forest goat if he is lucky to find the Forest Goat when hunting. Sometimes if he did not get anything while hunting, he immediately went fishing in the river which was a bit far from his home.

The young man skillfully installed a rubber band that was connected into four pairs for him to pull on both ends of the short wood branching. The young man was making a new catapult, because his previous catapult had broken off his rubber because he had never changed for a long time.

This time he replaced his rubber catapult with a new one, after he finished making his Catapult. Now he was holding an arrow made from the ribs of goat bone which sharpened his tip, but he looked a little confused when he wanted to sharpen his arrow's eyes, he turned his head to the left and right as if he was looking for something that had been lost.

'Where's my hunting knife? didn't I just put it near this leather bag?' said the young man in his heart interrupted him looking for his lost item, he then got off the cot and entered his house while shouting to call his mother.

"Sir.., maaaaak!"

"What are you shouting so loud!?" Her mother replied a little upset who was in the kitchen at the time.

"Don't you see my hunting knife?" Ask Rangkas while walking towards the kitchen.

"Where does Mom know! isn't that your own knife!? why ask my mom?" Sahut the mother is still with her annoyance.

Rangkas did not answer his mother's words because he found the knife he was looking for was stuck in the Goat's Head Skull which was displayed above the door to the kitchen. The position of the knife was stuck in the hole of the head of the goat skull that had been taken by his flesh. A sense of wonder and confusion into one, Rangkas was speechless with his confusion staring upwards.

"What are you doing Rangkas? why are you keeping quiet, son?" Ask the mother who was surprised to see the behavior of her child. Rangkas still did not reply to his mother's words, he still stood unmoved staring at the goat's skull with a blank look. Her mother immediately raised the fried cassava out of fear of the charred, then she walked up to her son.

"Why are you quiet, son? what are you looking at?" asked the mother asked until she finally looked up at the door and was immediately aghast.

"Oh God!! why did the eyes of the goat skull light up red!?" The jolt of his mother Rangkas shocked half to death and when he wanted to touch his son. Suddenly Rangkas immediately fell unconscious on the floor and his mother screamed hysterically while trying to resuscitate her child.

The head of the goat skull suddenly emitted a dazzling red light in an instant and soon the light disappeared along with a knife stuck in the head of the goat skull. Rangkas mother did not care about it, she immediately brought her child into her child's room. After he laid the pruning on the sheet, he immediately went to the kitchen to fetch some warm water along with some betel leaves.

Whether what his mother Rangkas would do to his son, he immediately dipped a sheet of betel leaf and stick it on the forehead Rangkas. he continued to do it until Rangkas face covered betel leaves that have been dipped in a basin filled with warm water. When finished, her mother Rangkas immediately let her child like that. Then he pondered considering the events before him that had also happened like that to his son.

'What does all this mean??? I have experienced the same thing twice! but to my surprise, why did the eyes of the goat skull turn red? it was obvious it was just an ordinary mountain goat skull.' The murmur in the heart of his mother Rangkas named Suminah continued to look for the meaning of the incident. Until he remembered the old events that had happened, the incident began when his husband was still alive.

Her husband, Rusdi, had just returned from the forest. As usual, he came home with a bunch of firewood and some wild chickens. The wife was very happy to see her husband get a lot of money. At that time Rangkas was ten years old, Rangkas at that time only fell silent gloomy unlike his carefree mother.

"Why are you so moody, son?" Ask the Father to Rangkas.

"I want to eat mutton sir, bored me if I constantly eat chicken meat." replied Rangkas in his moody interlude. The father just smiled as he rubbed the child's hair, then he said.

"Later you will try, son, now we eat what is there first."

"A promise, sir?" ask Rangkas to his father. The father just nodded his head with his typical smile and made Rangkas finally throw away his moody demeanor. It makes the mother who has been watching the two can only smile happily.