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Old 22nd May 2011, 05:41 PM   #5
Alam Shah
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This KLO is probably meant as a charm or amulet, for esoteric use. It was probably made for the local market. I've seen a wide range of such objects when visiting keris markets in Java, stockist for the so-called supernatural 'dukun' (witch doctor) and the likes.

I asked many whom swear by these objects, called 'barang tarik' which literally means, 'pulled out' items from the mystical world, why only low quality objects are found and not those which are of good quality workmanship?

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