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1g2!.| I. H. N. Evans: A Grave and Megaliths. 17E 
ancestors to lean against and table-stones are placed for them 
use as seats, though megaliths are erected for other pur- 
poses as well. s Some, but by no means all, of the Nias 
megaliths have a phallic significance.® 
In British North Borneo, according to my own expe- 
rience, the Dusuns sometimes place rows of stones outside 
villages, these being thought to act as a protection against 
disease ; and similar guardian stones are also found among the 
Tinguians of the Philippine Islands. 
Megalithic monuments occur, too, in many other islands 
of the Indian Archipelago, and an account of them, in those 
parts of Indonesia where he thinks that no cultural influences 
associated with Brahmanism, Buddhism or Islam have pene- 
trated, is to be found in W. F. Perry’s Megalithic Culture of 
I miomesia. 
author considers that certain belief and customs are 
Es Ne aobe connected with the immigrants who introduced the 
megalithic culture into N.E. India and Indonesia. Among 
these are several which are still found among the Malays or 
among the wild tribes of the Peninsula, such as a belief that 
stone implements are thunderbolts,* prohibitions against 
eating the flesh of certain animals, ° and ideas that certain 
on the Peninsula I know of instances of these ‘‘ punish- 
ment” beliefs among the Malays of Central Pahang, the 
Negritos of Perak, and the Sakai of South Perak. I tabulate 
the offences and the punishments which follow them below; 
more detailed ands eee can be gathered from previous 
numbers of this Jou 
Nationality. Pe of Offence. Punishment, 
Malays. Dressing up and Thunderstorms and 
laughing ata cat village swallowed by 
and dog. earth. 
Sakai. (a) eee ingle leeches Thunderstorms caus- 
the cook-house ing, most probably, the 
fire. death of the offender. 
Among the nanere 
1 Nias. By E E. W. =~ Serine 1918. 
- Phalli are carved on t 
e is an illustr. rae making offering to some 
small guardian stones in Customs of the a World, \ Vol. ITI, p. 668. 
+ Generally current among the 
children are protibited, or will not eat the flesh of 
certain animals. bless of the mousedeer and of the Bérok and _ 
monkeys is commonly regarded as prohibited: ‘The the w 
variety of the buffalo is regarded as pantang (tabu) by 8 some Malays. 
