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

bĕrdah if accompanied by musical instruments. ↑ 81 Tĕpong tawar, or “Neutralising Paste,” is believed to avert ...

has no children, kahwin janda bĕrhias). In the case of the re-marriage of a widow who has no children by h ...

97 The Bilal is an elder of the mosque; in western Muhammadan countries he is styled Muezzin. ↑ 98 Selangor ...

ground, though all traces of the graves be obliterated, is regarded as an unpardonable sacrilege,”—Marsden, His ...

Tradition says that originally one grave-post (nisan) was used, and that the earlier form of a tomb was a ...

Jikalau sa-rasi dĕngan aku, mĕngadap-lah angkau, asap, kapada’ku, kalau ta’ sa-rasi, mĕlintang-lah ’kau dĕngan ...

champak-lah dayong. Numerous sea-snakes do, as a fact, exist in the seas of the Malay Peninsula and Archipelag ...

reached its highest development, and that his miracles were mostly miracles of medicine; whereas in Mohammed’s ...

143 Swettenham, Malay Sketches, pp. 153–159. Another excellent account, also by an eye-witness, of a similar ...

Newbold, Malacca, vol. ii. p. 179. ↑ 156 “I have said that all birds fight more or less, but bi ...

house, getting the materials out of his own body?” Ans. “A spider.” ↑ 168 i.e. “Tuju lobang,” which means ...

“Yes, it’s sweet ... to grouse about the crops, And sweet to hear the tales the natives tell, To watch the k ...

180 Literally, “Brothers and Sisters and Chiefs”; this refers to the Spirits who inhabit the villages, and not to th ...

of such a frankly unflattering nature. ↑ 188 This is hardly an accurate description of the temporary shed ...

200 When swearing fidelity, alliance, etc., water in which daggers, spears (lĕmbing), or bullets have bee ...

relieved to find his soul still in his own possession. ↑ 209 See J.R.A.S., S.B., No. 7, pp. 19, 20. ↑ 210 J.R. ...

219 Or Kutika. ↑ 220 “The original Javanese week, like that of the Mexicans, consists of five days, ...

which, being in the Arabic character, run from right to left. ↑ 226 See App. ccxliv. for an extract from a ...

Whilst Bintang Alnasj (Alnash) is the “Wain.” ↑ 236 Newbold, op. cit. vol. ii. p. 355. Cf. Colebrooke’s Li ...

19273536443 11 282937454 1220 ↑ 243 The crescent, or crescent and star, are here used as emblems of the 1 ST ...