66 MALAY POISONS AND CHABM CURES 



Siamese woman, who exorcises evil spirits by means of 

 dancing and incantation. It is said that when she is 

 operating in any district all oth'er " medicine-men " are 

 disqualified for the time being. The evil spirit that is 

 raised by the honwr helia7i is generally the tiger spirit 

 (haniu riniau) ; but she also deals "svith the wild man's 

 lullaby {amk Pangan dadong), the young cut-throat 

 Q)ujang simheleh), the swaying child of the plain {anak 

 lenggang padang), the ghost of the argus pheasant 

 {hantu kua7ig)f the ghost of the stone cave {hantu anak 

 gua hatu)f the ghost of the sea {hantu semar laui), the 

 ghost of the heir apparent {hantu Eaja Muda), and the 

 old black jin, who is the most powerful {Data' jinhitam). 

 She calls up the ghost of the pig-tailed monkey to help 

 her in her sorcery, and utters her incantations to the 

 accompaniment of the tambourine {rebana). The male 

 homor h^ian is a personage fomid among the pagan 

 races of the Malay Peninsula : he deals exclusively with 

 the tiger spirit and is accredited with the power of 

 becoming a " were-tiger " ; his title is the only one in 

 which heredity asserts itself. The mysterious doings 

 of the tiger-spirit man have been described by Skeat in 

 " Malay Magic " (Ref. 3). 



The homoT mamhang, as well as the homor gihioh, 

 concerns liimself mainly with the fairies known as 

 '* Celestial Beings," such as the water-nymphs and the 

 elves* These two wizards work ^\ith the tambom*ine 

 and small drum ; their witchcraft is similar to that of 

 the ho'imr rrwk pek, except that in his sorcery, which is 

 known as j?ermaman tmh fek, or main mok pek for short, 

 the homor mok pek uses no musical instrument. 



Main Mok Pek. — The help of the homor mok pek is 

 sought to cure sick people, to discover lost or stolen 

 property, and to find out if anything pertaining to 

 witchcraft has been buried underneath a house. There 



