toi8.] [.H.N . fs of the Behraug-V alley Senoi. 195 



ipar-wu n\ (?), rattan known as kerai, and 



two kin . and chiuchong), must not 



be burnt in the fire of the c< It is also forbidden 



to roast or boil the lie I ,01 of the Kera-monkey, at 



a fire on which dried (ish lia ked. In addition the 



many kinds insects must not be imitated 



when heard, for instance that ol the cicada. Even such 

 actions as playing with the sand by the river-side and laughing 

 loudly, as children like to do, or looking into anothei pei n' ■ 

 face and laughing, ai to their ideas, capable' of 



bringing on oni ms st< irms. 



Katil told me that a lew months before my visit a man 



, dried fish in the jungle, making his fire, 



without thinkin: matter, at the foot of a clump of 



rattan-palm of the kind known as rotan kerai [Doe\ 



geniculates). Asa result of this, a violent thunder-storm came 



re he had finished eating. On realizing what he had 



done, he took his working-knife and cut his loot with it 



(presumably with the intention of propitiating the Spirit of 



the Storm} ; then, on the bli lod gushing out, the sti inn sti ipped. 



He had only intended to make a superficial cut, but found 



that he had wounded himself so badly that he had to be carried 



>y his companii >ns. 



Thunder-storms caused by the infraction of one of these 

 prohibitions are called terlax rms.") 



In this connection, chilau, which I understand from the 

 Sakai of the Ulu Sun was said by Katil to 



mean " thunder storm," but this is not supported by the 

 comparative vocabulary 111 Skeat's "Pagan Races" where 

 chilau, cognate with kilau (Malay) " to glitter," is recorded 

 as meaning lightning among the Sakai of the Korbu Valley. 

 Ungku was given to me as the word for " thunder," and is not 

 uncommon in various Sakai dialects. Ungku, Turul, or 

 Nanchet, moreover, is the spirit who makes the thunder. His 

 young brother. Bonsu, asked him to go with him to a place 

 above the, sky. but Turul (Ungku) would not consent, as he 

 wished to 1 causi trouble on earth. Bonsu 



thus left him below, svhere he remains till the present day. 

 Turul has four children, three of them females, VVah Hilong, 

 Wah Hideh, and Wah Dampen ; the fourth. Puntok Keboie, a 



While I was with the Snmi I had an opportunity of 

 eeing how they behave during a storm, for on two successive 

 evenings there arose a high wind with distant thundei and 

 lightning. On the first evening, while the wind was blowing 

 in violent gusts. I heard tin- people in the next hou e calling 

 out loudly, rmd I asked Katil, who was with me, what they 

 ying. I did not. however, go into the matter deeply 

 then, as I thought that he might bi talk about the 



storm while it was still raging. On I 

 most of the people of the settlement were in the hut in which 



