124 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vou. IX, 
‘* Rice-paste without speck, 
I measure you out by the peck ; 
Two or three pecks now I pile, 
Thousands more come in a while 
Rice-paste without speck ! 
May my land yield me many a peck 
Of rice that grows sans blight or speck 
On ridges banked and fat with grain! 
By grace of Allah’s Prophet Abraham 
— ai of the Elders at the four corners of the 
By. as of Muhammad Apostle of God.’’ 
The Harvest. 
This is the invocation used to summon the rice-soul at 
harvest. While uttering it, one waves a white cloth so 
that the rice-soul shall not. fall on and crush one at her 
coming :— 
Hai si-dang muri! si-dang gtmbala! si-dang tatap / 
si-dang yas 
Yang di-atas bahagian aku; 
Yang di-bawah bahagian éngkau 
Jangan di-rosak di-binasakan bahagian aku ; 
Jtkalau di-rosak di-binasakan bahagian aku, 
E ngkau di-makan Koran tiga-puloh juz / 
Itu-lah tanggongan tngkau 
“Spirits that peep and mace 
All that shows above the field is my portion 
All that lies below is your BF ogy 
Hurt not nor destroy my port 
Else ye shall lia devoured by the thirty chapters of . 
the Koran; 
That shall be your doom.’ 
After that, pay one’s respects to earth and water. 
Expelling Evil from the Fields. 
On p. 249 of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 
Straits Branch, No. 77, 1917, I have described the ceremony 
called b&érpuar ‘and referred also to Mr. Blagden’ $s account 
quoted on Pp. 230 of Skeat’s “ Malay Magic.” 
Below is an invocation used :— 
Bismi ’llahi ’r-Rahmani-r-Rahimi / 
Hat dato, pttala bumi, jin tanah ! 
Bérhala besi / 
Anak (?) Wani, Bujang Wani / 
Anak (?) Wavan, Bujang Bandan/ 
Meényiah tngkau, jin dan shaitan! 
