SIDI, SIAMANG, ADUNADA 



By R. 0. WlNSTEDT. 



On page 605 of Skeat's " Malay Magic," under LXX occur the 

 lines : — ■ 



Bukan-nya aku yang berburu, 

 Pawang Sidi yang berburu; 

 Bukan-nya aku yang puny a anjing, 

 Pawang Sakti yang punya anjing : 



on page 640, under CXCIX 



Maalim Saidi yang puny a taivar 



Maalim Karimun 1 yang menuivar 

 — in a Perak MS. Cl^arm-book, Maalim Karimum is found : on 

 page 607 (LXXIII) 



Bukan aku yang berburu, 



To patek Sang Sidi yang berburu : 



on page 589, XV 



Aku-lah yang bernama Dato Mentala Guru 



Sakti di-rumah: 

 Sedang Sidi nama-nya aku : 



on page 607, LXXYI 



O serba Saidi 



Tuan patek yang puny a rusa: 



on page 590, XVIII 



Berkat Sidi terjali sendiri, 

 Menjadikan sakalian alam. 



Now in all the above quotations Sidi is taken to be the name 

 of a person; and in some cases is confused with the Arabic saidi 

 e lord/ either by the Malay pawang or by his European transcriber. 

 But clearly serba Saidi is a very doubtful phrase in the context, 

 if it is to be rendered " all sorts of Lords;" and berkat Sidi 

 terjali sendiri, if it referred to a pawang, would ascribe to him pre- 

 posterous powers. However in the first of the quotations, sidi 



1 A pawang philologist glibly explains yang berdiam di-Pulau Kari- 

 mun (Skeat p. 581). Tb it perhaps the Skt. Gariman (= guru + iman.) 



Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc, No. 81, 1920. 



