17 May 2010

'Djin' on my father's orchard


One of the best things about going back to kampung is hearing stories from the folks. These stories vary in nature-sad, happy, humourous depending on the storyteller's mood. The story of this week is about how my father's orchard has got a djin residing on it. Of course no one in my family knew about it until a fruit buyer came all the way from Semporna to Ranau (about 5 hours drive away) to buy langsats from my father last fruit season.


The person said that something followed him back to his place. Upon consulting a knowledgeable man, he was told that it was a djin from the orchard. A good one. The djin supposedly stays on the land and looks after the land. His dwelling place? The bamboo plants that are abundant there.


Now that is something interesting to know. Most especially when the land was recently trespassed on (rather, somebody decided to reroute the river from being on the land's boundary to exactly in the middle of the land) and when my father brought the case to the court, he won the case before the trial. My folks, being the believers that they are, naturally credited the victory to God with...maybe...some help from the djin, as in Dusun, we have supernatural creatures of equal nature, the rogons. Rogons could be bad or good, depending on how you deal with them. Respect them, and they will do you favours. Offend them and they'll cause you harm. In this era of modern religions, some people reject them totally, while some accomodate them and accept their role as 'the helper', maybe just like angels or slightly of lower level.


No matter what, the story is indeed enlightening. I'm impressed to know that my father's land has a wonderful resident of different makeup then us :-)

8 comments:

TataJane said...

waw! menarik ! At least yg bagus punya kan :D

smallkucing said...

I think heard something similar for Banana tree also :(

Verone said...

Tata- yup :-)
smallkucing- banana tree? hope it's a good one too.

azamain said...

that's 'miion' and a friendly one at that for following and not harming the fruit buyer. Keep the bamboo though,it has tasty 'hobung'...:). BTW,any news of its return [miion]?

Verone said...

Azamain- so miion is different from rogon right? I think it has returned. Got to visit it next time :-)

jew said...

say hi to the djin buragas!hehe

Lee said...

Hi Verone, I too believe in this....as used to be involved with logging, Jungle, and estates.....
I even carried 'one' in my car long ago....blogged about it before.
Love your story and your eloquence, have a nice day, Lee.

Verone said...

jew- buragas indeed :-)
uncle Lee- wah, you actually carried one in your car? I wonder if 'it' did show its' face to you. I always wonder how they look like, not that I am a brave person but just wondering...