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

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variety, which is said to have larger leaves than the “male variety,” being used). For further
details, vide Chap. III. pp. 78–80, supra. ↑


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The following is a list, as correct as I was able to make it, of the number and order of the
offerings which were thus distributed:—



  1. A portion of parched rice.

  2. A portion of sweet potatoes.

  3. Two (cooked) bananas.

  4. Two lĕpats (small cylindrical rice-bags).

  5. Three (cooked) bananas.

  6. Two kĕtupats (small diamond-shaped bags).

  7. Three yams (k’ladi).

  8. A portion of parched rice.

  9. Three short lengths of the stem of the tapioca plant (ubi kayu).

  10. Three sweet potatoes.

  11. Four sweet potatoes.

  12. A portion of uncooked liver (hati).

  13. A portion of cooked meat.

  14. Four sweet potatoes.

  15. Three cooked bananas.

  16. Three kĕtupats.

  17. Three (green) bananas.

  18. Three kĕtupats.




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kĕtupats

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  1. Three green bananas.




Three
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green
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bananas.
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  1. Three sweet potatoes.

  2. Three yams.

  3. Three lĕpats.




Three
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lĕpats
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  1. Two lĕpats.

  2. Five kĕtupats.

  3. Two yams.

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