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

Javanese.”^4 In the magic of the Peninsular Malays we find Vishnu the Preserver, Brahma the Creator, Batara Gur ...

their application.^8 But there are a few deities of whom the honorific sang-yang is used, but not batara, e.g. ...

of his power tended to develop into two distinct personalities, a development which apparently was never enti ...

Huntsman, or Spirit of the Land. Fishermen and seafarers, on the other hand, obtain many a favour from hi ...

(b) Spirits, Demons, and Ghosts The “Jins” or “Genii,” generally speaking, form a very extensive class o ...

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PLATE 2.—SPIRITS. Models of the White and Black Genii (Jin Puteh and Jin Hitam) Page 94. Altogether there a ...

As to the origin of these Genii, one magician told me that all “Jins” came from the country “Ban Ujan,” ...

Besides these subdivisions, certain Genii are sometimes specifically connected with special objects or ideas. Th ...

Sometimes, again, a White Angel (Mala’ikat Puteh) is mentioned, e.g. as being in “charge of all things in th ...

Next to these royal honorifics comes the title of “Headman” or “Sheikh.” There are, it is usually stated ...

we find the rakshasa of Hindu romances and the jin and ʿefrit of the Arabian Nights in the company of a lot ...

the water, with head like an inverted copper (kawah),” where the water rushes down the fall between t ...

And whose Swing-ropes are Malacca-cane-plants The Gift of His Highness Sultan Bĕrumbongan, Who dwelt at Pagar Ruy ...

Besides these there are several kinds of bloodsucking (vampire) demons, which are mostly Birth-spirits; and also ...

relative pronoun sang, which has the sense, in this case, of a definite article, is placed before it. ...

defective pronunciation and defective alphabets of the Archipelago. Some, also, are altered or varied in sense ...

16 It would appear not impossible that Sang Gala may be a corruption of Sangkara, one of the names of S ...

stone, and stands beside a lake called ‘Kolam Yamani’; into this lake the whole of the waters from t ...

24 Hantu and sheitan are generic terms for evil spirits, the former being the Malay term, the latter Arabic. ↑ ...