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

being split up and bent or opened outwards for several inches, and a piece of rattan (cane) being wound i ...

On one occasion, during my residence in the Kuala Langat district of Selangor, I had the good fortune to be ...

the patient as he sat up inside his mosquito curtain. Another brief pause, and the Pawang betook himself once ...

sacrifice. They were then duly deposited in the tray by the Pawang. Five waxen tapers, to “light the sp ...

following articles: a chupak (half cocoa-nutful) of “parched” rice, a set of three, five, or seven banan ...

And restore So-and-So. But if you do not restore him I shall curse you with the saying, ‘There is no god but God,’ ...

“The Upas loses its venom, And Poison loses its venom, And the Sea-Snake loses its venom, And the poison-tree of ...

Badi The next class of medicinal ceremonies consists of rites intended to effect the expulsion from the ...

These “mischiefs” reside not only in animate, but also in inanimate objects. Thus in one of the elephant-ch ...

You shall be cursed with my ‘curse of the nine countries,’ By (the power of) the word ‘There is no god ...

draught or potion. In the morning the cosmetic must be white (bĕdak puteh lulut), at noon it must be red (bĕ ...

Accept, accept duly this banquet of mine. It was good at the first: if it is not good now, It is not I w ...

tide, which is supposed to carry the boat (and the spirits with it) “to another country.” One of the char ...

Ashore ye shall get no food, But gape (in vain) about the world. By the grace of,” etc. Sometimes the crocod ...

purpose of obtaining his assistance in expelling a rival spirit of less power. In the autumn of 1896 (in t ...

FIG. 2.—Ceremony of invoking the tiger spirit. The accompanying diagram shows (approximately) the relative posi ...

betel. Everything being now ready, the medicine-man appeared and took his seat beside the censer, his wife, an ...

Be not careless or slothful, Linger not by inlet or river-reach, Dally not with mistress or courtesan, But de ...

fumigated in the smoke of the censer and returned to its scabbard. He next took three silver 20-cent pieces ...

occasional pauses for the emission of the growls, which had previously startled us, and the performance of wonderful ...