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

CHAPTER I ...

NATURE (a) Creation of the World The theory of the Creation most usually held by Peninsular Malays is summaris ...

beasts of prey. This wall, however, is being bored through by people called Yajuj and Majuj (Gog and M ...

few exceptions into good and evil genii. The most curious feature of the description is perhaps the marked anthro ...

round the earth, and producing the alternations of night and day.” To this I would add that some Malays ...

was related to me by a Selangor Malay:— “There was once a Selangor man named Haji Batu, or the Petrifie ...

climbed into a tree to allow it to pass. The beast, however, pursued him and commenced to climb the tree ...

night air; the Malay drums throb and beat and thud; all manner of shrill yells fill the sky, and the roa ...

in the form of a snake who is popularly called Si Bujang. This seems to prove beyond doubt the identity ...

term indicative of the superstitious dread associated with this particular period.”^31 1 Newbold, British Set ...

“be.” The tree would appear to be identifiable (vide App. i., iii.) with that mentioned in the firs ...

interpret as a corruption of Buwa-zangi, ‘Fruit of Zang,’ or E. Africa. They were cast up occasionally o ...

art thou?’ To which the Golden Dragon made answer, saying, ‘I have no land nor country, I have neither fa ...

Marsden’s work. “Rahu, a daitya or demon who is supposed to seize the sun and moon, and thus cause eclips ...

26 In Selangor I have also heard “Ular minum,” “the snake drinks.” ↑ 27 A Selangor Malay told ...

CHAPTER II ...

MAN AND HIS PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE (a) Creation of Man A common feature in Malay romances and legends is a des ...

colour of which was like gold of ten touch (amas sapuloh mutu), and its leaves like silver. All the trees w ...

cloud-like foam. The child showed no fear, and the white Semang, carefully lifting her, carried her up to the ho ...

And craved Life for it from Almighty God, And God Almighty gave it Life. Then sneezed God Almighty, and t ...