Ascetic dies from a fall<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A man who climbed a 15-meter tall banyan tree in
\na West Java cemetery to find solitude and obtain magical power
\nfell off and died on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Eyewitnesses said Toha, 27, fell out of the tree about two
\nhours after he climbed the tree in the sacred place in Cirebon
\nwhere Sunan Gunung Jati, one of Indonesia's early Moslem
\npropagators, was buried.<\/p>\n
\"As soon as he had climbed high enough, he perched there,
\nmotionless. He seemed to be meditating on a branch until we heard
\nhim come crashing down,\" an eyewitness told Antara.<\/p>\n
The cemetery premises were crowded with hundreds of people,
\nmany of them from the Cirebon royal family, attending the
\ntraditional Grebeg Syawal ceremony, when the incident happened.<\/p>\n
His relatives said that Toha, who had not eaten and drunk
\nanything since leaving his home in neighboring Indramayu on Feb.
\n21, was taking his last \"test\" before acquiring the supernatural
\npower he was after. (pan)<\/p>",
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