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

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FIG.    2.  DIAGRAM.

A   magic   diagram in  the author’s    possession, which   is  intended    to  represent   the various parts   of
the human anatomy, e.g. the heart and the lungs.

Page    544.

“The Perak Malays believe this to be an infallible test of the truth of a cause. The
boy who holds the false declaration is half-drowned, they say, as soon as his
head is under the water, whereas the champion of the truth is able to remain
below until the bystanders drag the post out of the river with the boy still
clinging to it. Such is the power of the truth backed by the sacred names and
persons invoked!

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