Of Balinese Might and Magic

An interesting part of Covarrubiass wanderings in Bali was his curiosity about the riddle of the leak, Balinese evil spirits.

July 5, 2005

When I was interested in studying about leak, my Balinese friend forbade me. They warned me that I would most certainly meet with disaster.

Covarrubias really wanted to see a leak spirit with his own eyes. Everywhere, he had heard stories about people who had studied magical incantations which enabled them to turn into a fireball, an animal, or a fanged creature with a protruding tongue and dangling breasts. It was said that they could fly above

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