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of the seven plants and puts them in his basket. The stalks 
whence the ears have been cut are smeared with clay ‘‘ as 
medicine for their hurt from the knife’’ and hidden under 
neighbour stalks as yet uncut. Before he leaves, the Pawan 
faces the east and touching the maimed stalks cries :— 
Hai Dang ’Pok! Dang Malini! 
Bértompok dayang di-sint. 
Dang ’Pok! » Dang Malini! 
Tétap dayang di-sini / 
Bérgtrak langit tujoh lapis, 
Bergtérak anak-ku Maharaja Chahaya ! 
Ta’ bérgtrak langit tujoh lapis, 
Ta’ bérgtvak anak-ku M aharaja Chahaya ! 
Bérgtrak bumi tujoh lapis, 
Bérgtrak anak-ku M aharaja Chahaya / 
Ta’ bérgtrak bumi tujoh lapis, 
Ta’ bérgtrak anak-ku M aharaja Chahaya ! 
Tégoh saptrti batu kéras, 
Saptrti bési tétap-lah, 
Dari dunia datang ka-akhiva 
i. sa-kalt déngan tuboh ‘tas ayah dan bonda- 
Bbychtrai Allah heaps i nhammad, 
Bérchérat mu déngan 
Ta’ bérchtrai Allah ae Muhammad, 
Ta’ bérchtrai ’mu déngan a 
“Ho Dang ’Pok! Dang Malini! 
Grow here in clumps! 
Establish youiselves here. 
If the seven tiers of the heavens are shaken, 
Then only shall my child Princess Splendid be shaken ; 
If the seven layers of earth be shaken, 
Then only shall my child Princess Splendid be shaken. 
Else shall she be established as rock, firm as iron, 
From this world unto the world hereafter 
Established in limbs and body with father and mother. 
Only if the Prophet be age? from Allah, 
Shall she be parted from me 
Finally the Pawang kisses the rice-stalks at the place 
where they are decorated with thread and sprays. 
n an account collected at Batu Kurau, in the Larut 
district of Perak, there are a few differences. The incantations 
are in debased Arabic. The seven chosen plants, it is 
explained, are not tied with the many-coloured thread and 
sprays till after the padi spirit has appeared: and that spirit 
comes in a whirl of breeze, but is thought to have taken 
fomerly the shape of a girl, Ninek Kémang. Sprays and thread 
are wound also about the edge of the basket which is to 
receive the rice-soul ears, ae, inside the basket are put an 
