Tenaga Dalam - Pukulan Cimande Pusaka

Mr. Giesen largely credits Pendekar Sanders for
this achievement because thanks to the Panther
Production tapes he was able to go on with his
Cimande training after he no longer could find a
good enough teacher in Holland.
this black history and it takes a lot of effort to
write it down. It was a horrible period of time for
my family and me. To guarantee the privacy of the
persons involved I changed the names. Otherwise
this story is authentic.
September 1995, Judith
Welcome
Pendekar Taruna Giesen (on the left) trains a
small group of people in the village of Swalmen in
Holland where he lives with his loving wife and
children.
More Paranormal Stories
Translation by Pendekar Taruna Ger Giesen
Story 3
Black Saturday Ended in a White Cloth
Strange thing not only happen with keris but with
wayang dolls also, proven by the next story.
The role of the intrigant is never clear. Not even
after the event. So it will always be a riddle if the
old wayang doll acted up to his dubious
reputation, or if I imagined it all. But I, almost ten
years after it happened, still have a problem with
In the summer of 1983 1 got an old wayang doll
from my friend Betty and her husband Herbert.
They had owned it several years, but because
very few people are crazy enough to look after
another’s 20 cats for three weeks, I got, as I
heard later rather precious, the wayang doll as a
thank you gift. According to Betty, whose father
was busy with old Indonesian artifacts for years,
the doll was really used for playing in the
traditional way. This information went in one ear
and out the other. It was an ugly little fellow with a
half arm, but because of this he was kind of cute,
I thought. That’s why he got a place in our living
room. An old wine bottle was soon found and
that way he went in front of the window as a
piece of the interior. My husband Bert didn’t
particularly like it, but what the heck, if I liked it.
And so Durna, not until after the scary intrigues I
heard his name for the first time, stood for years
between plants and flowers. On a market I
bought a second doll, because that would be even
nicer between the plants, I thought. Number two
was a female, this way it seemed like a couple.
Durna was just out of Betty and Herbert’s house,
when their marriage went wrong. This could be
coincidence, but it was strange. In the mean time
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