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ren being driven out. I have very little doubt that he traded 
on the reputation as the people were quite willing to give him 
anything he asked for through fear that he would otherwise 
bewitch their children. The explanation appears sufficiently 
obvious. If any person thought he had in any way offended the 
Pawang the next case of sickness in his house would in all 
probability be attributed to him, the illness then being considered 
supernatural no ordinary remedies would be tried and incan- 
tations alone would be used to drive out the evil spirit. The 
result to the patient is very easy to imagine and as he or she 
being familiar with the story of the Polong, it is not surprising 
that the answers given to the well known formule coincide 
with the suspicion of the relations especially when it is remem- 
bered that the patient is a young boy or girl in high fever. 
H. Marriott. 
Jour. Straits Branch 
