RECORDS OF MALAY MAGIC. 23 
out some considerable degree of mental exaltation which renders 
him at least to some extent unconscious of his actions. 
This truly remakable performance being over the Pawang 
returned to a sitting posture (though still with covered head) 
and let blood from his arm with the point of the kris so that it 
fell over the prostrate form of the patient. 
[ I may add that after the conclusion of the ceremony and 
after his return to consciousness, the Pawang suffered severely 
from nausea.| He now rose to his feet and engaged in an ima- 
ginary but fierce combat with the spirit whom he had been called 
to exorcise, performing the necessary evolutions first with the 
kris and then with the spike of areca blossom. Then once more 
he began to stroke the sick man down with the blossom spike 
from head to foot, and beat the ground where he was standing 
with the end of the spike at the conclusion of the operation. ~ 
He now sat down, again crooning to himself, and partook 
of betel leaf: then facing round to the patient and muttering 
over him, he shampooed him all over with his hands and turn- 
ing round to the jars again once wore transfixed the spikes of 
blossom in the jars, in which the spirit was now supposed to be 
lurking, with the point of his kris. Finally he drew his head- 
cloth over his head so as to cover his face and sat rocking him- 
self from time to time over the patient’s body: then crooning, . 
suddenly he clapped his hands and removed the head-cloth, 
stroked down the patient and flicked him with the corners of it, 
and lying down again at full length enveloped in his sarong 
in the course of about ten minutes, with numerous convulsive 
twitchings, he returned to consciousness, and sat up, and the 
mony was entirely at an end. 
The following words of the spirit language were subsequent- 
ly gathered from the Pawang. 
English Malay Spirit language Remarks. 
bird burong simbangan 
betel leaf sirih merak b’layang 
candle lilin talong 
child. anak demit N. Z. tamaita 
daylight. siang sinar 
dead Se MAU Ae ol pemerat. 
