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

yourself from blood-guiltiness, you shift the burden of your crime on to the shoulders of the Archangel ...

This is a charm for sowing dissension between husband and wife (pĕmbĕnchi): — Make two of the wax figures in t ...

The simplest way, perhaps, of abducting another person’s soul is to go out, when the sun clears (mataha ...

“Take a lime branch which has seven limes on a single stalk, and suspend it from the top of your mosquit ...

(detar) home and place it under your pillow (for the three nights). If you want to use it by day, b ...

(buleh di-tengo’ orang-nya didalam puchok api). The charm runs as follows:— “I know the origin from which ...

may throw further light on the subject. It has not been deemed desirable to anticipate such inferences and c ...

1 “To return to the elemental spirits, it was explained to me by a Malay, with whom I discussed the subj ...

it is believed, are handed down in certain families as heirlooms. The master of the familiar is said to k ...

and inserted it with the story belonging to it in a publication called the Anglo-Chinese Gleaner. And I sai ...

Polong to go and afflict him, that is to say, to cause him pain or sickness; or if a third person ...

again several times, repeating more incantations. If not successful, go the next night and make a further eff ...

she comes will be caught in this snare, and that next morning when the fowls are let loose out of the ...

28 Vide pp. 353–355, infra. ↑ 29 Of the Pahang customs Mr. Clifford writes:— “Umat rushes off to the most fam ...

and blowing the smoke into the patient’s ear (di-ĕmbuskan). ↑ 33 Clifford, Stud. in Brown Hum., pp. 48–50. ↑ 3 ...

influence (badi) issues from the teeth. This dulang-dulang is valued at a quarter of a dollar, and is take ...

occasion of a festival. They do not here, as in some of the adjacent islands (of Nias in particular), ...

61 Bidang. ↑ 62 Ramping sapĕrti tangkei bunga. ↑ 63 Tombak sĕrai. ↑ 64 Duri landak. ↑ 65 Chahia bintang Zuhrah. ↑ 66 Dalima ...

“See how fruitful are the satela yams, Where the hills of Bantan rise by the sea; I know not whether good ...

always used sacrificially. ↑ 75 In Denys’ Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya, under the word “Marriage,” we ...