The Lime-Tree
Yet another tree whose spirit is the object, as it were, of a special cult,^160 is the
lime-tree, which is revered and looked up to almost as their chief patron by the
theatrical players (orang ma’yong) of Penang. The invocations addressed to this
spirit show that, as in most branches of magic, every part of the tree had its
appropriate “alias.” Thus the root was called the “Seated Prince,” the trunk the
“Standing Prince,” the bark the “Prince Stretching Himself,” the boughs the
“Stabbing Prince,” the leaves the “Beckoning Prince,” the fruit the “Prince
loosing an arrow.”