This story was based on the superstitious belief of the local community on the existence of gimbaran. Gimbaran could be literally translated as “genie”. Gimbaran sometimes had a human master who could command it to do certain tasks based on its abilities. It was known to have various abilities like protecting its master from illnesses and deflecting evil forces. It also had the ability to create illusions used to trick people into seeing certain things like rocks could appear as gold and maggot could look like food. It could also create illusion to look like a human that people were familiar with. This material contains several questons. This story was written by Sirhajwan Idek. It is also available in ESL Printables.

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Gimbaran (The Master of Illusion)

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This story was based on the superstitious belief of the local community on the existence of gimbaran. Gimbaran could be literally translated as “genie”. Gimbara…