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

Omens and Dreams The significance of ominous signs and dreams is a subject which possesses vast ramifications, ...

his feet together in the air (menyabong kaki). It betokens that either his father or mother will die. A ...

an integral portion of most, if not all, of the more important ceremonies,^212 and eventually develops ...

close to his mouth and the lower (spreading) end over the brazier, and finally repeated the charm for a thir ...

would be able to tell me all about the robbery, who committed it, where the stolen property then was, ...

produced. This was filled with water and a piece of fair white cotton cloth tied over the top, mak ...

I touched the papers, and no one but the Chief ever spoke till the séance was over. I asked the men who held ...

is called bertangkap mangmang or ‘taking up the challenge.’ Each paper is then carefully rolled up by the kra ...

PLATE 24.—FIG. 1. WEATHER CHART. Weather chart used by Malays for foretelling the weather during a whole year. ...

FIG. 2. DIAGRAM. A magic diagram in the author’s possession, which is intended to represent the various par ...

“The loser is often fined in addition to suffering the loss of his stakes (one-half of which goes to ...

These names are the names of Hindu divinities, Maheswara being Shiva, and constituting with Brahma and Vish ...

(2nd day) Jibra’il Ibrahim Yusuf ʿAzra’il Ahmad (3rd day) Ibrahim Yusuf ʿAzra’il Ahmad Jibra’il (4th day) Yusuf ʿAzra’il Ahmad J ...

The first day runs,— (1)Shams(2)Zuhrah (3)ʿUtarid (4)Kamar Sun Venus Mercury Moon (5)Zuhal (6)Mushtari and (7)Mirrikh Saturn J ...

according to the letter they bear in the Cycle of Eight.^228 Most of these systems of divination involve t ...

original, having no connection with the nomenclature obtaining among nations with which we are more fami ...

“The better informed Malays acknowledge the solar year of 365 days, which they term the toun (tahun) sh ...

dal-ba-wau-dal-Ahajazdabuda. The present year (1251) is the year Toun-za. “In a Malay MS. history of Patani, in ...

FIG. 2. DIAGRAMS. Other patterns of the preceding diagrams, together with two additional diagrams (those ...

Of the mystic figures used in divination, the first in importance is, no doubt, what has been called the “magi ...