It is said that it was created by the Wali Songo or Nine Saints, who were instrumental in spreading the religion of Islam in the Indonesian island of Jawa; for the dance dramatises tales of holy wars won for Islam.
Dancers would also wear the Blangkon, a traditional flat headwear of the Javanese people to show their ethnic identity.
He avidly ate like a shard of people starving, do not wince in pain and no blood at the time he ate the glass-shard.