Malay Magic, Being an Introduction to the Folklore and Popular Religion of the Malay PeninsulaMacmillan, 1900 - 685 oldal |
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ada-nya akan Al-salam aleikum Alam Allah ampat anak angin angkau asal kau jadi ayer Badi baik bamboo banyak barang Batara Guru batu berkat bermimpi bernama besar Bintang bird bridegroom bulan buleh Bumi called ceremony charm child cloth cluck cocoa-nut crocodile dalam dapat datang daun dengan deri deripada didalam earth hand handak Hantu hari bulan hati head hitam incense infra invocation jadi jangan Janggi jikalau Jugra jungle Kalau kapada kapada aku katika kayu kemdian ketupat kita kramat kuning lagi Lanchang langit laut magic makan Malacca Malay Mambang mati memegang menjadi merah minta Muhammad Nabi nama-nya orang pada padah-nya padi Pawang Perak Polong Pontianak puteh Raja rice rimba rumah S'ri sagala sakalian saperti Selangor semangat seven soul spirits sudah Sultan tanah tawar tengah tepong tiada tidor tiga tiger tray tree Tuan tujoh turun Vide App
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332. oldal - If you fail try again several times, repeating more incantations. If not successful go the next night and make a further effort, and the night after if necessary — three nights in all. If you cannot then catch your shadow, wait till the same day on the following month and renew the attempt. Sooner or later you will succeed, and, as you stand there in the brilliance of the moonlight, you will see that you have drawn your shadow into yourself, and your body will never again cast a shade. Go home...
570. oldal - Take parings of nails, hair, eyebrows, spittle, and so forth of your intended victim, enough to represent every part of his person, and then make them up into his likeness with wax from a deserted bees' comb. Scorch the figure slowly by holding it over a lamp every night for seven nights, and say : " It is not wax that I am scorching. It is the liver, heart, and spleen of So-and-so thai I scorch.
23. oldal - Not only is the king's person considered sacred, but the sanctity of his body is believed to communicate itself to his regalia, and to slay those who break the royal taboos. Thus it is firmly believed that any one who seriously offends the royal person, who touches (even for a moment) or who imitates (even with the king's permission) the chief objects of the regalia, or who wrongfully makes use of...
470. oldal - for Aix is in sight! "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
307. oldal - ... fifth dried flesh. They add, that Jesus, at the request of the apostles, showed them another miracle, by restoring the fish to life, and causing its scales and fins to return to it ; at which the standers-by being affrighted, he caused it to become as it was before : that...
307. oldal - ... continued to descend for forty days together at dinner-time, and stood on the ground till the sun declined, and was then taken up into the clouds. Some of the Mohammedan writers are of opinion that this table did not really descend, but that it was only a parable; but most think the words of the Koran are plain to the contrary. A further tradition is, that several men were changed into swine for disbelieving this miracle, and attributing it to magic art; or, as others pretend, for stealing some...
56. oldal - Muhammadan religion of the mosque ; the village has its regular staff of elders — the Imam, Khatib, and Bilal — for the mosque service. But the Pawang is quite outside this system, and belongs to a different and much older order of ideas ; he may be regarded as the legitimate representative of the primitive ' medicine - man ' or 'village-sorcerer,' and his very existence in these days is an anomaly, though it does not strike Malays as such.
397. oldal - ... which, being scarce in some parts of the country, bear a considerable price. On this occasion they kill and feast on a buffalo, and leave the head to decay on the spot, as a token of the honour they have done to the deceased in eating to his memory. The ancient burying-places are called...
432. oldal - ... sial) such as cats, tigers, pigs, dogs, snakes, and iguanas). When made they are to be deposited together in a heap upon a sacrificial tray (anchaK), together with betel-leaves, cigarettes, and tapers. One of the tapers is made to stand upon a silver dollar, with the end of a piece of particoloured thread inserted between the , dollar and the foot of the taper ; and the other end of this thread is given to the patient to hold whilst the necessary charm is being repeated. Part of this charm is...
506. oldal - I come not hither to vie with Thee in wisdom, for I only place my trust in Thee, and would surrender myself wholly into thy hands ; and I beg Thee to retire but three paces from the four corners of our shed, and that Thou shalt refrain from wandering hither and thither, for under Thy care I place...