Malay Magic _ Being an introduction to the - Walter William Skeat
Malay belief. The following tale, which is entitled Charitra Mĕgat Sajobang, and is told by Selangor M ...
1 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, N.S. vol. xiii. part iv. Cp. also the note to page 8 supra, ...
11 “Concerning the creation of Adam, here intimated, the Mohammedans have several peculiar traditions. They say ...
when a set of models of the Selangor regalia were being made for me, with the late Sultan’s full per ...
and possibly his mat and the dish he ate from. One of the tombak belonging to H. H. was a species of trident, ...
in the ocean, to the extent of a day’s sailing; possessed of a lance formed of a twig of ejoo (the ...
yellow elsewhere),” and many others worthy of the Sultan “whose presence bringeth death to all who attempt t ...
floor of one must be lower than that of the main building (kelek anak). ↑ 35 I.e. the sarong or Mal ...
after the death of a king the use of the title which he bore during his life. A new title is invented ...
52 This dressing up of the buffaloes, when taken in conjunction with the suspension of the breast- ornament ...
58 For the ideas referred to in this and the preceding paragraph, cp. Frazer, op. cit. vol. i. pp. 187– Cp. ...
66 In calling the soul, a clucking sound, represented in Malay by the word kur or kĕrr, by which fowls are ...
78 Infra, Chap. VI. p. 431. ↑ 79 We might then expect to get some such table as the following:— Colours ...
83 Infra, Medicine, Divination, etc. ↑ 84 Infra, Hunting charms. ↑ 85 Infra, Fowling charms. ↑ 86 Infra, Vegetation ch ...
CHAPTER III ...
RELATIONS WITH THE SUPERNATURAL WORLD (a) The Magician “The accredited intermediary between men and spirits is the P ...
deciding this delicate point of law, as I managed to persuade the owner to take up the appointment. “B ...
wholesome rule was the cause of bad harvests. I was accordingly pressed to fine transgressors, which would per ...
(ʿelmu) you must meet the ghost of a murdered man. Take the midrib of a leaf of the ‘ivory’ cocoa-nut ...
“Theoretically, kramats are supposed to be the graves of deceased holy men, the early apostles of the Muha ...
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