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

The following description of a ceremony similar to the one just described is taken from Malay Sketches:— “T ...

“At first the flame was steady, but by and by, as the singers screamed more loudly to attract the attention of the ...

several of these were carrying on similar proceedings in adjoining buildings, in order that the sick monar ...

cat, and so on. “Just before dawn there was a sudden confusion within the curtains which hid the Sultan’s ...

Venom be at ease no longer! Venom find shelter no longer! Venom take your ease no longer! May you be ...

away. He declared that the offending demon was sitting in his skull, at the back of his head, and that it ...

miniature green umbrella (made of cloth coated thickly with wax, and standing from four to five inc ...

“Peace be with you, O Breath! Hither, Breath, come hither! Hither, Soul, come hither! Hither, Little One, ...

Again, in order to recall an escaping soul (riang sĕmangat) the soul-doctor will take a fowl’s egg, sev ...

“One evening I was discussing these various superstitions with the Sultan of Perak, and I did not notice that ...

DANCES, SPORTS, AND GAMES ...

Dance Ceremonies The following passage is an account of a characteristic Malay dance, the Joget: — “Malays are not ...

concerned, it is probable that it came originally from Java; the instruments used by the orchestra and the ...

to the hem of the skirt. “All four dancers were dressed alike, except that the older girls wore white s ...

surrounding gloom. The orchestra was placed on the left of the entrance to the Hall, that is, rather to the ...

eldest, striking at each other with their wands, seemed inclined to turn the symbolical into a real ...

PLATE 18.—GAMBOR. Model, showing the performance of the kind of dance called gambor. The suspended figure in the c ...

forms, the spirit being duly exorcised again (or “escorted homewards,” as it is called) at the end of the perfo ...

have achieved unless “possessed.” When it is time for her to recover her senses she is called upon by n ...

PLATE 19 .—PĔDIKIR. Model, showing the performance of pĕdikir (a kind of dance) before a newly-married couple. Th ...