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A Love-spell. 
This is to be said over oil which contains chenduat- 
flowers. ‘The oil is to be smeared on the body or clothes of 
the woman whose affection it is desired to gain. 
Léd lod btkot. 
Jed lod &d &k. 
Kélhek langod. 
S’leman kentan. 
Balok wag hilag. 
Hertik kedong sayong. 
Sog mohr takob. 
Beb-tob teheu bim. 
S’naian bleuk kom. 
Chom pales suk. 
I was unable to get any translation of this formula, and 
as far as I could make out its language is vaisieeaiogs of the 
following words, however, I got the meanings : 
Bekot flower, : Takob hole es — ( ?) 
Ed _ skin ( ? ) of stomach. Beb-tob knock ( ? ). 
Ek stomach. Teheu wa 
Kilhek flower of a certain kind. Bim me (? ). 
Hertik tail. S’natan saiiee (Mal. ketika). 
Kedong rat. Kom frog. 
Sog hair. Balak ivory. 
SHR iy} S’leman Solomon. 
Mohr _ nose. Bleuk thigh. 
The Bird-Soul and Birth Customs. 
My evidence with regard to these subjects was gathered 
from Tokeh. It appears that a certain kind of bird, which 
is called Til-tol-tapah,* is thought to announce the impending 
arrival of a child. us, if a T2l-tol-tapah is heard calling, 
the Negritos immediately say that one of their women, or 
the wife of some Malay, is about to become pregnant. A bird 
of this species had been in the neighbourhood just before my 
arrival, and the tribesmen were, therefore, waiting for the 
fulfilment of its prophecy. Tokeh spoke of ‘the Til-tol-tapah— 
which he said he had never seen, but only heard—as being 
the bayang (Malay), or shadow, of ‘all the Negrito women, and 
also referred to it as the semangat bidan (Malay) or midwife’ s 
soul. Another bird the Chim-ot is also thought to convey 
similar intimations by means of its cry. 
1 Skeat also found that it was area to get the Negritos to virgo 
their magic formulas into Malay, o be se es use of archaic phrases o 
— Vide tre a Races, vol. II, 
have not been able to idewtity this bird, but I sorts that it is 
lt Tokeh told me that the Malays call it Kangkang kat up. Vaughan 
Stevens says that the Til-til-tapa (sic) is the smaller gto He 
calls the Chim-ot ‘* Chim-iut.”’ ‘‘ Pagan Races,” vol. II, p. 2 
