[cxc] Cholera
It is related that a Malay named Satuba, who lived at Kuala Selangor, had a wife
and two children, both of whom died of cholera and (apparently) became
cholera-demons. The wife enters the right-eye socket (chengkong?) of the
cholera patient, and is named Sapu-laman; and the two children, who enter the
left eye, are called Sapu-negri and Sapu-rantau.
Satuba (when his wife and children died) ran off to the woods, and there he met
an orang kramat, who gave him this charm against cholera:—
Ya kayun Muhammad baka kallah
Ka hatal Makah.The charm is called Satuba’s charm, or the charm against “Prince ‘Lick-up-the-
men-of-war-ships’” (Raja Jilat juak kapal prang). The wife’s name in Arabic
was Adayatu’llah, and the children’s, Hidayatu’llah and Ayatu’llah respectively.