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

38 The Bajang is a familiar spirit (vide pp. 320–325, infra). ↑ 39 The Hantu katagoran, sempak-kan, and puput-ka ...

51 Pĕndĕras, the art of making one’s self swift-footed. ↑ 52 Pĕrahuh (a misprint for pĕruah = pĕruang?) that ...

CHAPTER V ...

MAGIC RITES CONNECTED WITH THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS OF NATURE ...

(a) Air 1. WIND AND WEATHER CHARMS Not the least important attribute of the Malay magician in former days ...

“Eggs of the House-lizard, Eggs of the Grass-lizard, Make a trio with Eggs of the Tortoise. I plant ...

appear in the course of this chapter, is strongly tinged with animism, have been thus described by ...

This does not apply to the small owl called punggok, which, as soon as the moon rises, may often be hea ...

drinking the blood of the animals which he slew, and pursuing night and day his fruitless search. At length ...

mother had told him, not forgetting the message of the old man about the chisel. Then the hunter said: ‘Truly ...

(all differently coloured) precede him in his search for his quarry. Page 116. “Then the boy returned to his mot ...

Jangan angkau meniakat-meniakit pada tuboh badan-ku. In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful, Peac ...

“The note of the birik-birik at night, telling as it does of the approach of the hantu pemburu, is list ...

Salampuri is the name of his poniard (sĕkin), Silambuara the name of his k’ris, The insignia of the Demon Rama ...

Maxwell:— The Night-jar (Burong chĕroh^30 ) takes its name from the word applied to the second stage in the op ...

or, “Hold thy peace, Tuah, My k’ris (dagger) is with me.” The story runs that once upon a time t ...

The “Luck-bird” (Burong untong) is a very small white bird about the size of a canary. It builds a very ...

plantation. Her parents, however, persuaded her to stay at home; first until the trees were felled, then ...

either stands up with the right toe resting upon the toe of the left foot, or else squats upon the left ...

it to is to steal money and other species of property.” The next few notes on Malay bird-lore were colle ...