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

yourself from blood-guiltiness, you shift the burden of your crime on to the
shoulders of the Archangel Gabriel!!!

There are, of course, many slight variations of the actual ceremony. Sometimes
the wizard, during the insertion of the pins into the image, exclaims:—

“It is  not wax that    I   slay^258

But the liver,  heart,  and spleen  of  So-and-so.”

And then, after “waving” the figure in the smoke of the incense, and depositing
it in the centre of a sacrificial tray (anchak), he invites the spirits to banquet
upon his victim’s body:—

“I  do  not banquet you upon    anything    else,^259

But on  the liver,  heart,  and spleen  of  So-and-so.”

When the ceremony is over the image is buried in the usual way in front of the
victim’s door-step.

Another method is described as follows:—

“Make the wax figure in the usual way and with the usual ingredients. At
sundown take parched rice, with white, black, green, and yellow (saffron) rice, a
“chew” of betel-leaf, a wax taper and an egg—this latter as the representative of
a fowl (ʿisharat ayam). Burn incense, and recite this charm:—

“Peace be with you, O Earth Genie,
Bull-shaped Earth-spirit, Earth-demon, Bull-shaped World-spirit.
Come hither, come down, I pray you, and accept the banquet I offer.
I have a something that I want you for,
I want to give you an order,
I want to get you to aid me

And assist  me  in  causing

the

sickness

(as the case    may be),    of

Somebody.

or

madness

or  death

If you do not accept the banquet I offer
You shall be a rebel to God,” etc.