RECORDS OF MALAY MAGIC. 3 
to be used when the Pawang has done her work by the owner 
of the rice field, and the blade of which is fitted into a piece of 
the wood called pompong [the reason given being that ‘‘ pom- 
pong ’was the wood of which these instruments were originally 
made] whilst what I may call the handle of the instruments was 
made of a slip of Bamboo with the hollow filled from end to end 
with wax. About the other two “ penuweis” (b) and (c) there 
was nothing specially remarkable. Close to the Dulang was a 
cocoanut shell filled with the “‘tepong tawar” which plays so 
prominent a part in the more important magic ceremonies of the 
Malay, the brush consisting of the leaves of seven different 
plants bound up as usual with a cord of terap bark and ribu-ribu. 
The plants which furnished the leaves were as follows:— 
1.—The sapenoh. 
2.—The sapanggil. 
3.--Jenjuang (or lenjuang) merah. 
4,—Gandarusa. 
5.—Pulut-pulut. 
6.—Selaguri. 
7.—Sambau dara. 
But the most intersting object was a small oval-shaped 
basket about fourteen inches long and similarly bound with “ ribu- 
ribu” which was standing just in front of three rice-baskets and 
close to the pawang, and which was destined (I was told ) to be 
the “cradle” of the padi-spirit. I was permitted to examine it 
and found that at the moment it contained the following 
objects only :— 
1.—A strip of white cloth (at the bottom of the 
cradle). 
2.—A piece of partly coloured thread (benang pan- 
charona). 
3.—Anegg. | 
4.—QOne of the hard jungle-nuts (buah kras) already 
referred to 
5.—One of the shells called ‘ eee 
6.—A long iron nail 
7.—Five hasta of red cloth in which the “cradle” 
was to be slung. This latter should in strictness be a cloth of 
the kind called “jong sarat,” I was informed by the Pawang, but 
the “Kain jong sarat” being unobtainable, this substitute was 
