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Katil also said that food is placed at the foot of a 

 morning and evening .sometimes only in the mornii 

 fourteen days after burial, the spiril oi the dead man being 

 thought to teed on what is put there for him. 



On the fourteenth da) the n lativesol the dei i ased bold a 

 irding to old custom- now. I understand, some 

 what neglected no ornaments hould bi worn or singing 

 indulged in for two month ; ath. 



Katil's pi ople do not bat] • lore burial, becau 



as he tolt] me, his t . 



by a heavy rain-storn body was placed in it, this 



being ascribed to the fact thai the corpse had been washed. 



Graves are dug so thai th headoftl to 



wards the east. The body is wrapped in mats or white cloth 

 and placed face upwards. 



Katil explained, by means of a plan scratched on the 

 ground, that the grave is dug to nearly the required depth and 

 the bottom then divided into two section- by a line running 

 parallel to its sides. The left hand section (when looking 

 towards the head of the: grave is nexl carried down to a 

 sufficient depth, below the right hand, to receive th< 

 When the body has been placed in this d 11, stakes 



are fixed slantwi ■■■■ bottom of the grave, their points 



being driven into the shallower (right hand) section, and their 

 ends abutting against the side wall of the grave adjacent to the 

 excavation in which the corpse lies. A covering of tree-bark, 

 or ofsheetsof bamboo, is th i the stakes, the body 



thus being protected by a sloping roof. After this earth is 

 piled up on the covering until the excavation is full, and the 

 mound formed. 



To turn now to Senoi ideas with regard to the soul and 

 its survival after death. As far as I could ascertain from the 

 Rehrang Sakai, a man's soul and his shadow are regarded as 

 one. The word kemoit, which I have mentioned abov 

 to mean the ghost of a dead mm. hut the soul, or shadow, is 



lala 

 a shadow), i ; 



but does not usuall) \ I, in case il should not be 



able to return. Tie ! have aire idy st il 



:d to be roaming the earth ''.hen violent winds are 



ig. They are evilly disposed and hunt thi 



men. which take the forms of animals >ften of the Muntjac). 



This is known because people in their .beams have seen the 



; mis have been hunted 



fall sick. 



The i itly >peak of human 



tujoh, " boards." It appears that the earth 



t to board 



above the earth ipal nnam), as does also that 



i:ele, the' earth. Both the t • and below th 



