igi8.] I. H. X. Evans: Beliefs oj the Behrang-V alley Senoi. 209 



Not long afterwards the Hantu Merah Mata came to the 

 spot and, seeing that Bonsu had gone up to the clouds on 

 the pinang-ttee, climbed into the 6wi/i-plant .im<\ chanted, 

 " Tinggi, tinggi batang birah ! 

 Tinggi rendah puyoh Melaka ' 

 Aku takut Hantu Merah Mala !" 

 and the foVa/t-plant immediately grew upwards, carrying the 

 Red-Eyed Spirit with it. But the Red-Eyed Spirit could not 

 catch Bonsu because lie had reached the sky. 



Then Bonsu called out, " Ancestor, open the door!" So 

 his ancestor 1 opened the door, and he went in and shut it 

 again. Upon this the pigs, the woodpeckers, and the porcu- 

 pines cut away the stem of the 6(>nA-plant so that it fell into 

 the sea carrying the Red-Eyed Spirit with it ; and he was 

 drowned. 



1 This is Ungku (Turul) who governs thunder and lights 

 story is not, of course , Unglcu's brother of the same name 



