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

water, fumigate it with incense, and deposit it in the hole dug to receive the centre-post. Early next mo ...

71 Young shoots of bamboo are eaten by Malays with curry. ↑ 72 The skull of this elephant, riddled with ...

They speak of them with a degree of awe, and hesitate to call them by their common name (rimau ...

Sel. Journ. vol. i. No. 6, p. 87. ↑ 86 Or with a needle, vide infra. ↑ 87 Or two cats, vide infra. ↑ ...

break with the weight of this well-fed wild goose. Be (your mouth) shut fast and locked. If a bachel ...

every man, one on the right hand to record his good deeds, and one on his left to record the evil deeds. ...

‘Peace be with you, O ’Tap, Prophet of God, in whose charge is the Earth. I ask for this tree (to e ...

Mischiefs One Hundred and Ninety (in number), I know the origin from which you sprang. The mischief of an Igu ...

115 Or Sugar-palm (Arenga saccharifera). ↑ 116 “The Malayan Sun-bear, the only animal of the bear species in th ...

J.R.A.S., S.B., No. 7, p. 26. ↑ 123 J.R.A.S., S.B., No. 1, pp. 93, 94. ↑ 124 J.R.A.S., S.B., No. 7, p. 22. ↑ 12 ...

writing. ↑ 134 In Court and Kampong, pp. 147, 148. ↑ 135 Vide p. 217, infra. ↑ 136 Vide p. 279, in ...

Aku minta’ jangan di-tĕbang. ↑ 146 This instrument consisted of a single short joint of bamboo, about nine ...

Strips of palm-leaves for thatching houses. ↑ 154 One who has made the pilgrimage to Mecca. ↑ 155 Sel. Journ. vol. ...

When the orchid was to be planted it was found that there was no room for it on the ground between the trees ...

169 This statement must not be accepted without reserve, though it may be true of the particular districts ...

178 J.R.A.S., S.B., No. 26, pp. 39, 40. ↑ 179 Orang hulu literally means “men of the inland country,” but he ...

indication of a larger supply of camphor.”—Garcia in the Historia Aromatum (1593), quoted in J.R.A.S., S.B., ...

comparatively dry and no embankments are required. This is not, of course, intended to be an exhaustive descr ...

199 Strips of bamboo or fronds of palm-leaf braided into an open square shape with cords attached to the ...

210 These were newly-plaited round baskets, three in number, and diminishing in size from the Pawang’s ...