CONTENTS 



TAQM 



Preface v 



FOREWOKD xi 



CfHAPTEB I. — Methods of PoisostIng akd Malay Chasms in 



General. ........ l 



The magic kris — Uees of bile — Use of blood — Time- 

 poiaoDS "—Detection of poiaon— Magic antidotes. 



Chapter IL — The Work of the Bomor in relation to 



CtiNicAL Medicine . . . . . .16 



The bomor or pawang — " Ghost plants " — Superstitions 

 — Jin — Crystal gazing — Christian Science — -Theories as 

 to the origin of disease— Taboo— Origin of cholera — 

 Ideas as to amall-pox — Native methods of quarantine. 



Chaptbe III, — Charms and Amulets . . .39 



Charms against forest demons — Against small-pox — 

 The pe/esii— Snake bite charms— Charms against 

 poisons— The dngong charm— Bezoar stones — Snake 

 stones— The cMmata bahi charm— Amulets — Talismans 

 — ^Love charms. 



Chaitter IV. — Black Art in Malay Medicine . . 65 

 The spirit- raising bomor — Performance of Main Mok 

 Peh—Main Gebiok — Main Peteri — BerhmUu—Oranff 

 Bunian — Main BSrbagih — Waxen knaged. 



Chapter V.— Spells and Soothsaying .... 98 

 A Kelantan manuscript on Magic — Pre-natal language — 

 Divination — Protective formiilaa — The waking 

 charm " — Magic squares. 



Chapter VI.— Poisons obtained by Malays from Fish . 110 

 Cat- fish-^a rp— Glo be*fish-— S tin g-ra j's . 



Chapter VI I . — Other Poisons obtained by AIalays prom 



the Animal Kingdom 124 



Tortoises and snakes — Frogs and toads— ilothe—Beetles 

 — Land -bugs — Grasshoppers — Millepedes — SI ugs and 

 Snails^ — Worms. 



