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

MAGIC RITES AS AFFECTING THE LIFE OF MAN ...

BIRTH-SPIRITS We now come to the spirits which are believed to attack both women and children at childbir ...

PLATE 6.—BAJANG AND PĔLĔSIT CHARMS. Diagrams in the author’s possession representing the Bajang and Pĕlĕsit (bir ...

The following account of the Bajang is by Sir Frank Swettenham:— “Some one in the village falls ill of a complai ...

shortly after made a united representation to the effect that if the person suspected were allowed to remai ...

arms as wings, or open and shut her hands to assist her flight.”^7 The superstitions about the Langsuir, h ...

PLATE 7.—PĔNANGGALAN AND LANGSUIR. Models of the Pĕnanggalan and Langsuir, the former being the head on the left. ...

“O ye mosquito-fry at the river’s mouth When yet a great way off, ye are sharp of eye, When near, ye a ...

startled she attempted to escape, and in the excitement of the moment, kicked her own chin with such force t ...

measures are taken to compel the owner to recall it. It now only remains to describe the means employed b ...

BIRTH CEREMONIES In or about the seventh month of pregnancy (mĕngandong tujoh bulan) a “Bidan”^15 (sage femme ...

points out the luckiest place in the house for the child to be born. Such a spot must not be under the ...

(tahu mĕniarap). This contrivance, it is alleged, prevents the child from starting and straining its mus ...

head uses the words—“Muhammad, short be your head” in the case of a boy, and “Fatimah, short be you ...

When the child has been bathed, it is fumigated, and deposited for the first time in a swinging-cot (the ...

For the first two months or so, whenever the child is bathed, it is rubbed over with a paste obtained by ...

yam-leaf (daun k’ladi di-ponjut) or cocoa-nut (?), and carried away and deposited at the foot of a shad ...

sĕjuk), e.g. fruits, with some exceptions, and vegetables; (2) things which have a heating effect on the blood ...

house. To understand what this means to a Malay, you must realise that the seat in the doorway, at the ...

the tahi babi, jintan hitam, and garlic, pounded and mixed as usual with vinegar. After three days an ext ...