RECORDS OF MALAY MAGIC. 35 
Jika bulih kakandak hati, 
Jangan sakit jangan mati, 
Jangan chachat, jangan binasa 
(>) Another one runs as follows :— 
Tepong tawar tepong jati, 
Katiga dengan tepong kadangsa, 
Naik-lah mas ber-kati-kati 
Naik-lah orang beribu laksa. 
(c) And a third as follows .— 
Tepong tawar, tepong jati 
Tepong tawar sa-mula jadi, 
Barang-ku chinta aku perulih 
Barang-ku pinta semuania dapat. 
(d) And a fourth :— 
Tepong tawar tepong jati 
Kerapak tumboh dibatu 
Allah menawar Mohamad berjampi, 
Gunong runtoh ka-riba aku 
Bukannya aku yang punya tepong tawar 
Toh Sheikh Putih gigi yang punya tawar 
Bukan-nya aku yang punya tawar 
Datoh La’ailbau yang punya tawar 
Bukannya aku yang punya tepong tawar 
Datoh Betala Guru yang punya tepong tawar 
Kabul Allah, etc. 
Sacrifice at Fishing Stakes. 
Menyemak or Mencherak Kelong. 
Karly in January, 1897, I witnessed this ceremony at Ayer 
Itam ir the District of Kuala Langat, Selangor. The officiating 
Pawang was an old Malay, named Bilal Ummat, who had long 
been ‘the possessor of fishing-stakes in the same neighbour- 
hood and had been accustomed to ferform the ceremony 
annually for very many years past. I and my little party 
arrived in the course of the morning and were conducted by the 
Bilal to the building in which he and his men resided during the 
fishing season. Here we found, as we had expected, a feast in 
