Miscellaneous Notes. 



By W. George Maxwell. 



I have found in an old note book the following jottings 

 of folk lore picked up by me at various times from Pa' 

 Senik, an old Kelantan Malay now resident in Kinta. They 

 are mere trivial disconnected scraps, but are perhaps worth 

 recording. 



* * * * 



" When one leaves the house to go hunting deer, one 

 " ought, in order to avert from oneself any evil consequences, to 

 " repeat this mantra, 



II Bukan aku yang memburu, 



" Pawang Do Resat yang memburu." 



Pa' Senik was unable to tell me anything about Pawang 

 Do Resat or his connection with deer, but supplied the following 

 information about deer generally. 



" The first hunter of rusa was Pa' Chu Seming.* Upon 

 "his death, which took place in the rimba he became a hantu 

 " rusa. 



" His son Jitan died in the bluker, and likewise became a 

 " hantu. He looks after the kijang, pelandok and jungle fowl. 



" Nang Peluntong Chai was the wife of Pa' Chu Seming. 

 " She died in the padang. It is she who sends the deer 

 " away before a drive begins, if the preliminary propitiatory 

 " ceremonies have not been duly performed. 



" After the death of these three, the next hunters of deer 

 "were Cho Resat, Do Resat, Pran Ali, Pran Rasu, Pran 

 " Maiar and Putri Bongsu." 



* Another account, recorded in considerable detail in a Ms. 

 (written by a Perak Malay) which I hope to have ready for the next 

 number of this journal, makes out that Pa' Chu Seming became th« 

 Hantu Pemburuy the Great Spectral Huntsman. 



Jour, btraits Branch R. A. Soc, No. 49, 1907. 



