XXII. BELIEFS, ( [ STOMS, AND FOLK-TALES OF 

 THE BEHRANG-VALLEY SENOI. 



l'.\ [vor II. X. Evans, Assistant Curator & Ethnogr, 



'■■' . urns. 



i\ in the present year (1917) I liad an opportunity ot 

 visiting up of Sakai who were living near the 



Behrang River, in Perak, about eight miles north of Tanjong 

 Malim, As they were a somewhat civilized community their 

 technology was not particularly interesting, since they had 

 given up making many of the articles worn, or used, by the 

 wilder tribes. I spent rather more than a fortnight in their 

 village, and found them friendly and willing to give information 

 with regard to their beliefs and customs. I'hey told me that 

 they maintained relations both with the Senoi (Sakai) of the 

 Slim Valley, whom they called Mai Slip, and with the tribe, 

 seemingly of mixed Sakai-Jakun origin, which lives near Ker- 

 ling in Sela'ngor, and speaks'Malay as its mother-tongue. 

 I re the nearest neighbours of the Behrang Senoi, who 



inhabit the neighbourhood of the Behrang and of the Bil 

 Rivers. The Kerlingp Mai Mel 11 ai (out- 



side people), or sometimes as Mai Renyup, from the fact that 

 they use a word "nyup" meaning "is not," in their dialect, 

 which is equivalent to the ordinary Malay phrase tiada. 



.Marriages between Behrang Senoi and Mai Sup ot Mai 

 em to be not infrequent, one woman that I met having 

 been married t<> a Slim man (and divorced); and another 

 having come from the Kerling tribe. Divorce seems to be 

 fairl) common, and I was told that in this respect men and 

 women are on quality, a permanent 



separation, with free lorn to marry, taking place at the wish of 

 either p irty. With the ex> 1 irrn m 



rare, and Kati lid that even 



this war- n I, nor did it lead to blows among the par 



: found another 

 ly take it away, and upbraid 



The di Behrang Senoi beh mgs to th< 



1: numbei <>f Malay 

 rhesi irectly frcm the 



local Mi tys, Sumatrans From various districts, who are, com- 

 parative! 1 n may have been introdm ed 

 through contact with Mai Meluar of 



The h 

 those of Malays and present no special features of inter -1 

 Their blow-pip the Batang Padang type, with tin 



■ i; hollowed at 



