216 SEA DYAK RELIGION. 
glittering teeth; sometimes dark, sometimes white in complexion ; 
but sometimes again devoid of all such terrifying features, a com- 
monplace human form, in fact, a magnified reflection of the Dyaks 
themselves. When he is seen, it is generally, as might be expected, 
on moonlight nights; but sometimes, s0 Dyaks aver, in the broad 
daylight. A young Dyak told me that one night he was watching 
for wild pigs on his farm on the skirts of Lingga mountain when 
there appeared a great white antw which he tried to catch by the 
leg, hoping to get something from him; but the antu shook him 
off, and with one bound disappeared into the jungle. Another 
man told me that when a boy he was going to a well to bathe, when 
he suddenly saw close to him an antu of gigantic stature, and he 
ran for his life and shut himself up in his room. That evening, a 
few hours later, a boy in the village suddenly died, killed of course 
by the antu. Such stories could be multiplied by the hundred. 
The antus also reveal themselves in dreams; and whenever one 
has been seen by night or day, the apparition will be almost cer- 
tain to revisit the Dyak in his dreams; and there is not the remo- 
test suspicion that these visions of sleep are mere states of the 
subjective consciousness, but they are regarded as objective 
realities. 
Antus rove about the jungle and hunt hke Dyaks themselves. 
Giraast, the chief of evil spirits. is especially addicted to the chase, 
and may be exactly described as a roaring lon walking about 
seeking whom he may devour. An old man solemnly assured me 
that he once saw this terrible demon returning from his hunt and 
carrying on his back a captured Dyak whom he recognised. That 
very day the man died. There are certain animals in the jungle 
which roam about in herds, which the Dyaks call “pasan;” these 
are supposed to be the dogs of the antus, and do their bidding. 
Irom what I can gather about these creatures, I imagine them to 
be a kind of small jackal; they will follow and bark at men, and, 
from their supposed connection with the spirits, are greatly feared 
by the Dyaks, who generally run away from them as fast as they 
can. A Dyak was once hunting in the jungles of the Batang Lu- 
par, and came upon an antu sitting on a fallen tree; nothing 
daunted he went and sat upon the same tree at a respectable dis- 
