26 RECORDS OF MALAY MAGIC. 
Ambachang masak sabiji bulat,* 
Penyikat tujoh penyikat 
Pengarang tujoh pengarang, 
Di-orak di-kumbang jangan (= to undo) 
Lulor lalu di-telan 
Kalau tidak ’kau sambut 
Dua hari, jangan katiga, 
Mati mampek, mati mawai(—= mati bongkang) 
Mati tersadai pengkalan tambang (= teodampar) 
Kalau ’kau sambut 
Dua hari jangan katiga 
Kadarat ’kau dapat makan, 
Kalaut ’kau dapat minum, 
Then holding the rattan line referred to, repeat the fol lowing 
Relumpoh (charm to disable an opponent) : 
Aku tahu asal-kaa jadi. 
Tanab liat asal-kau jadi 
_ Tulang buku tebu asal-kau jadi + 
-Darah-kau gula, dada-kau upih, 
Gigi-kau tunjang berembang 
Ridip-kau chuchan atap. 
Here blow upon the end of the line, and draw it thrice back- 
wards ; and thrice knock it against the bows of your boat: _ 
While you are planting the stake, to which the floating 
platform is moored, the following charm should be repeated: — 
Asalam aleikum Nabi Aliah Tap, yang memagang bumi, 
Nabi khalir yang memengang ayer 
Nabi setia yang memagang langit 
Nabi Elias yang memagang kayu, 
Nabi Nor yang tanam kayu, 
Aku ’nak buat tumpat meletakkan pekiriman kepada hulu- 
balang di-rantau (— buaia). 
* Ambachang, aie, his refers to the fowl, which should. be tied 
seven times lengthways, and seven times across, and which the crocodile is 
bidden to swallow whole (lulor, etc.). 
. + This of course (and the following lines) refer to the story that the 
first crocodile was a lifeless plaything of Fatimah,:the daughter of the pro- 
phet, who made its bones of sugarcane. joints, its flesh of clay, its blood of 
cane juice, its belly of areca nut sheath, its teeth of the sharp: pointed shoots 
of the berembang, and the ridge of its back from the eaves of thatch. 
