Elephant’s Sperm in Kelantan

I really like Kelantan. Despite being the most Islamic state in Malaysia (95% Muslims), Islam hasn’t really vanquished some of the older beliefs among the people- apparently – so it’s quite common that you’d see somebody drawing a big crowd of people by selling stuffs with so-called medicinal substances, usually embellished with all kinds of make-believe stories, usually superstitious theories and all.

I first heard about elephant sperm when a friend of mine posted something about it on facebook – that he could never imagine somebody even has the will of doing something to make an elephant splosh. LOL.

I didn’t really know nor did I pursue to know what it was – or rather what it was for – until somebody came up with ONE when I was in Kota Bharu recently. And yes – ONE doesn’t mean one tiny drop of sperm but rather one tiny piece of stone. Looking at it, or rather, touching it with my bear hand, it was hard to believe that it was actually a solidified chunk of elephant sperm – or so I was told.

I found the theory of its formation quite amusing. Forget about sploshing an elephant – you’ll die under the feet of the giant mammal before you get it done. I was told that the female elephant has this bad habit of kicking the male elephant right before ejaculation so the male elephant ends up spraying it all onto the ground and if they’re left untouched for quite a long period of time, they’ll solidify into pieces of hard stones.And whoever finds them would be a damn lucky man. A ring studded with elephant sperm can be used to attract women – even the impossibles as I was told – and if there was one challenge that you’d have to go through in order to make it work, it would be to find a chance to have it rubbed on the skin of your target. Oh well, however you think it can be done is up to your creativity. I wouldn’t contribute any idea in this. Har har. But once it is done – or so I was told – voila! She’s all yours. 😀I was told that each piece of elephant sperm is sold at about MYR200 – MYR500 – although the term ‘sold’ is not really the right word according to them because it is more like a gift and the money is more like just a token of appreciation.

They obviously took pity on me for the fact that I haven’t yet married at this age (FIY, not married at 30’s are quite unusual in Malay culture) that I was actually offered a piece of it at MYR60!

But NO.  I didn’t buy it. Really. I did NOT. 😀