Witch-Queen

Classed 'deity' as a powerful spirit/goddess-class being (Durga aspect), per the schema's restriction on type values. 'Rangda' literally means 'widow' in Old Javanese.

Domains

• black magic and pestilence
• widowhood and the demonic
• leyak witchcraft

Powers

• looses plague, crop-failure and death upon villages
• commands the shape-shifting leyak witches
• Devour children and prey on the newborn

Relations

• enemy: Guardian Beast-King
• syncretism: Durga

Sources

• Belo, Jane (1949). Bali: Rangda and Barong. Monographs of the American Ethnological Society 16. New York: J.J. Augustin.
• Hooykaas, C. (1978). The Balinese Poem Basur. The Hague: Nijhoff.