Malay Magic _ Being an introduction to the - Walter William Skeat

fathom’s distance, and say:— “As a cocoa-nut shell rocks to and fro When filled with clay, Avaunt ye, Jĕmb ...

I will minimise my benediction (lit. my ‘Peace be with you’). If it (the deer) be a buck, you shall ...

Not Luck that is adventitious, But Luck incarnate with their bodies. Go tread upon the heaped and rottin ...

Bears and Monkeys “The Bear^116 is believed to be the mortal foe of the Tiger, which he sometimes defeats in ...

months, came to an end. Then Si Malim Panjang, elder brother of Si Malim Bongsu, decided to take the pla ...

Now the Princess’s nurse (who was called “The Daughter of Sakembang China”) was at the same time transforme ...

There are several superstitions about the Wild Boar which prove that it was not always regarded as an ...

effect that a Malay boy (a mere child) fell into the big rice-bin (kĕpok) in his parents’ absence and ...

Before leaving the subject of cats, I must mention the belief that the “fresh-water fish called ikan belidah ...

leaves prepared with mystic ceremonies, which is carried at the bow for the purpose. The omens are watched with ...

3. VEGETATION CHARMS ...

The Vegetation Spirit of the Malays “follows in some vague and partial way,” to use Professor Tylor’s words, f ...

So, too, a boat with a large knot in the centre of the bottom is considered good for catching fish, ...

Cocoa-nut Pearls The following remarks concerning these peculiar accretions are extracted from Nature:— “During my ...

these stones in any of the museums, or if there is any evidence beyond mere hearsay of their existence in ...

The Durian The Durian tree (for an account of whose famous fruit the classical description in Wallace’s Malay ...

If you do not I shall fell you.”^144 To this the tree (through the mouth of a man who had been statio ...

The Malacca Cane No less distinct are the animistic ideas of the Malays relating to various species of the Mal ...

it is most commonly called. These stick-insects are believed by the Selangor Malays to produce the sounds to ...

The Tualang or Sialang Tree So too of the Tualang-tree Mr. Wray writes:— “One of the largest and stateliest of th ...