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4. The husband must not make fish hooks, or the 

 child will be born doubled up in a wrong position, perhaps 

 causing the mother's death. 



5. Neither of them may stretch up either arm to 

 take food from the hanging trays of bamboo, called 

 toyang. Should they do so the child will come into the 

 world arm first, or probably not be born. 



6. They must not nail up boxes or anything else (nails 

 were formerly of wood), nor tie up anything, — for in- 

 stance, a rattan for drying clothes, — nor lock a trunk, 

 else the child will not be born and the mother will die. 



7. In case of feeling hot, if he or she should take off 

 their upper garments they must not be tied round the 

 neck, or the child will be born dead, with the navel cord 

 around its neck. 



8. The work of tying split bamboo sticks into loose 

 mats, for instance such as are used in the bottom of the 

 prahu, must not be done, or the child will be born with 

 two and two or all four fingers grown together. 



9. They must not put the cork in a bottle or place the 

 cover on a bamboo basket containing rice in order to 

 close it for a considerable time, as in that case the child 

 will be born blind in one or both eyes, or with one ear, 

 one nostril, or the rectum closed, but the cover may be 

 put back on a basket from which rice is taken for daily 

 use. 



10. For five months the work of putting a handle on 

 a parang and fastening it with damar must not be done 

 else both mother and child would die. 



The name given the child when the umbilical cord is 



