RECORDS OF MALAY MAGIC. 29 
Tertegak panji-panji Mohamad geda-geda Allah 
Aku minta kramat Pawang 
Berkat kramat Datoh mengkudum Putih 
Berkat kramat daulat Sultan Askandar Sahadanya. 
The .Wave Offering. 
The Pawang sat down facing the south with his back to 
the patient, the dishes containing the offerings of cooked and 
uncooked viands in front of him, and the tray which was to 
hold the offerings suspended in the centre of the room about 4 
feet from the floor, and just in front of his head. Then he light- 
ed a taper and removing a caladium leaf from the mouth of a 
jar containing “holy” water (ayer sumbahyang) gazed into the 
jar and then extinguished the taper. He then held his hands 
in the attitude of prayer first over the censer, and then over the 
“holy ” water and taking the censer in both hands, made three 
circles with it round about the jar, and then setting it down again, 
stirred the water thrice with a small knife which he kept in the 
water whilst muttering the charm. He now charmed the betel- 
stand in the same way, and then the first dish of cooked food, 
pushing the latter aside and covering it with a dish cover when 
he had finished charming it. 
Next he was offered two pieces of yellow cloth (yellow being 
the royal colour in Selangor) five hasta in length in all, together 
with a small vessel containing ‘“ Bugis” oil, with which he 
anointed the palms of both hands before handling the cloth. He 
now proceeded to wave the cloth in the smoke of the censer, one 
end heing grasped in the right hand, and the remainder passed 
round the right wrist, and over and under the right arm, and the 
loose end trailing across his lap. Having repeated a charm, the 
Pawang, now breathed upon the end of the cloth in order to 
charm it; then ran the whole of the cloth through his hands and 
fumigated it with the incense; then laying it aside, he took an 
egg from a tray which was held out to him and deposited the 
egg in the exact centre of a large bow] filled with parched rice. 
Once more putting aside the jar of “holy” water he let the tray 
down about a foot and a half by means of its cord, and allowed 
an assistant to affix to the tray a fringe or frilling made of strips 
