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Muhammad, the medicine-man Zainal. This feast I give to 
protect our homes and rice-fields by swamp and hill from all 
danger and tribulation, all sickness and suffering.’’ ‘‘ A’s- 
salam alatkum, hat Chang Teh, Perak Teh, sidang wang purba 
kala! Aku héndak mémbéri tahu yang mémégang télok rantau 
di-sint: aku htndak ménjamu ’Tok Pawang Kuala déngan ’Tok 
awang kolam, Pawang Muhammad dan Pawang Zainal. 
Aku menjamu mémbért makan-mu ini; aku héndak mémbtla 
kampong halaman dan béndang huma; minta jauhkan dari- 
pada oe mara bahaya dan sakit péning.”’ 
e he cries Ohui, Ohut, Ohui; then retreats three 
steps, ‘keels and repeats the cry four times ; after that he 
goes home. 
For seven days no one in the parish (mukim) may cause 
leaf or branch to wither; no one may execrate anything; no 
one may throw anything into the parish or drag anything out 
of it; and no stranger may enter. 
A series of similar ‘ceremonies by which the whole of the 
Perak river valley was “‘cleansed’’ of evil sea négért) is des- 
cribed by Sir William Maxwell in J.R.A.S., S.B., ‘‘ Notes and 
Queries,”” No.3. Mr.C. O. Blagden has aca an account of 
a propitiatory service seen by him in Malacca (J.R.A.S., S.B. 
1896 ; quoted in Skeat’s ‘‘ Malay Magic,’’ pp. 230-235). 
