Malay Magic _ Being an introduction to the - Walter William Skeat
though perhaps natural retort, the archangel loses his temper, and rudely exclaims that he “will take the Earth ...
In dealing with this branch of the subject I will first take the case of the kings and priestly magici ...
country of Menangkabowe about the beginning of the twelfth century.”^19 Of the Perak regalia we read: “Tan Sab ...
A list of the Jĕlĕbu regalia (given me by Ungku Said Kĕchil of Jĕlĕbu) ran as follows:— A single-bladed Sw ...
An enumeration of the writer’s regalia often forms an important part of a letter from one Malay sovereign ...
It had been forged by the son of God’s prophet, Adam, smelted in the palm of his hand, fashioned with t ...
backward, one forward as a sign that he was leaving his country, and two backward as a sign that he ...
umbrella was confined to his family.”^38 A number of other particulars bearing on this subject will be foun ...
Besides the above there are not a few linguistic taboos connected with the king’s person, such as the use of t ...
Equals in rank when saluting one another touch^49 (though they do not shake) each other’s hands, but a p ...
on arrival, and whatever the cause may have been, it is a fact that Mohit’s mother died a day or ...
PLATE 1.—SOME OF THE SELANGOR REGALIA. Models, representing part of the regalia of H.H. the Sultan of Selango ...
accidentally trod upon the wooden barrel of one of the State Drums—and died in consequence of his inadverte ...
teeth, the ears, and the nails, all of which I will take in their order. The head, in the first place, i ...
takes care that those severed portions of himself shall not be left in places where they might either ...
described in a later part of this book.^64 To the same category (of sacred things having physical con ...
appeal addressed to the soul in the charm just quoted:— “Do not bear grudges, Do not bear malice, Do not ta ...
Come and sit with me, Come and sleep with me, and share my pillow.”^70 It would probably be wrong to ...
The “lump of earth from the victim’s footprint” used in one form of the soul- abduction ceremony^77 is ...
besides its own, or even bodies of a different kind to its own, and hence these may be only apparent ...
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