Malay Magic _ Being an introduction to the - Walter William Skeat
him coal-black.^43 Hence the crow and the argus-pheasant are enemies to this day. The bird called “Barau-barau” is ...
bird with you, and the instructions which I collected say that you should on arriving enter the circl ...
PLATE 4.—PIGEON DECOY HUT. Used in snaring wild pigeon. Page 133. First you build a small sugar-loaf (c ...
“King Solomon’s Palace-yard,” and will also be useful from a practical point of view, as it will s ...
“It is not I who am setting out, It is ’Toh Bujang Sibor^45 who is setting out.” Then sound the decoy-tube ( ...
If you perch on a leaf, you shall be bitten by the leaf-snake, If you descend to the ground, you shall be bitt ...
Come in procession, come in succession, The assembly-flower unfolds its petals. Come down in procession, come ...
“Sift, sift the rice-ends, Sift them over a rush-work rice-bag,” etc. (as before). Put your lips to ...
they are to be snared, and which will catch them either by the neck or by the leg. The Princesses are inv ...
“I call you, I fetch you down, If you come not down you shall be eaten by the Bear-cat, You shall be ...
(b) Earth ...
1. BUILDING CEREMONIES AND CHARMS The first operation in building is the selection of the site. This is ...
(Here mention the purpose to which you wish to put it.) “If it is good, show me a good omen, If it is b ...
a little scrap-iron (tahi bĕsi), and deposit them in the hole which you have dug. Then take a fowl,^6 ...
Division was made by Adam.” Another rule of importance in house-building is that which regulates the lengt ...
III.—The Lion (singa). “A lion of courage, a lion of valour, Is the lion gambolling at the end of the ...
Great indeed is the calamity which has happened: Within the house its master lies dead.” In close connection ...
Even in the making of roads through the forest it would appear that sacrificial ceremonies are not invariably ...
2. BEASTS AND BEAST CHARMS All wild animals, more especially the larger and more dangerous species, are ...
hoped to repel them. The Malay addresses the tiger as Datoh (grandfather), and believes that many tige ...
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