champak-lah dayong. Numerous sea-snakes do, as a fact, exist in the seas of the Malay
Peninsula and Archipelago. They are all, I believe, venomous. Vide Miscell. Papers relating to
Indo-China, First Series, vol. ii. pp. 226–238. ↑
131
Ipoh raʿyat laut, kalau kĕna sa-orang di-sandarkan sa-orang, mati sampei tujoh orang
bĕrsandar. ↑
132
Supposed to be identical with Lukmanu-’l-hakim, a mysterious person mentioned in the Korān.
Vide Hughes, Dict. of Islam, s.v. Luqman. ↑
133
For the Wild Huntsman, vide Birds and Bird-charms, Chap. V. pp. 113–120, supra. ↑
134
Apparently v. d. W. means the fascination which a tiger has for its prey. In Selangor this
fascination is called g’run or pĕngg’run in the case of a tiger, and badi only in the case of a
snake—the person affected by it being said to be kĕna g’run or kĕna badi, as the case may
be. ↑
135
Vide App. lx., lxxii., lxxix. The different names under which “Badi” is invoked are worth
noting; e.g. “Badiyu, Mak Badi, Badi Panji, Mak Buta,” in an elephant-charm (App. lx.); and
again “Ah Badi, Mak Badi” in a deer-charm (v. App. lxxii.), and in a later deer-charm, “Hei
Badi Serang, Badi Mak Buta, Si Panchur, Mak Tuli” (v. App. lxxix.), and again “Sang Marak,
Sang Badi” (v. App. lxxix.), and “Jĕmbalang Badi” (v. App. lxxx.). I may remark that Sabaliyu
is given by Logan in the J. I. A. vol. i. p. 263, as meaning a deer in the Camphor Language
(bhasa kapor or pantang kapor) of Johor, and this word was afterwards confirmed by Mr. D. F.
A. Hervey. ↑
136
Influence of the Breath in Healing.—In Notes and Queries, No. 1, p. 24, a Malay bomor, or
doctor, is described as blowing upon something to be used as medicine. Breathing upon sick
persons and upon food, water, medicines, etc., to be administered to them is a common
ceremony among Malay doctors and midwives. The following note would seem to show that
the Malays have learnt it from their Muhammadan teachers:—
“Healing by the breath [Arab. Nafahal, breathings, benefits, the Heb. Neshamah, opp. to
Nephest (soul), and Ruach (spirit)] is a popular idea throughout the East, and not unknown to
Western magnetists and mesmerists. The miraculous cures of the Messiah were, according to
Moslems, mostly performed by aspiration. They hold that in the days of Isa, physic had