BLACK ART IN MALAY MEDICINE 78 



0 Wonder-working Seven ! Receive my humlile salutation^ 

 Wonder-Workers^ growings created, magical, 



1 pray you take the yellow rice, the pancake, the parched rice, 



the drop of water, and the quid of betel 

 As a token of my confiding request. 

 If I be in the wrong, 0 Miracle- Workers, 

 Correct me, curse me, apum me. 



I pray you restore him (the sick man) to his former self, 



Kestore him fully to his previous health. 



Now that I have addressed the seven Miracle -Workers 



I approach the iow-lying Earth, 



To entreat the Eaja Jin, 



Father of all Jins, chieftain of all Jins, 



He who lives a hermit in the pen of the Black Cow, 



The Pillar, the Prop, the Fanner, the Leveller, the Mover, and 



Shaker of the Earth. ^ 

 (?) Left by Ina Jagak wrapped in the Rainbow, 

 (?) Ancestor of Jin Dohar, of a thousand skin diseases, the seven 



spotted, 



I conjure thee to recall thy thousand and forty followers from 

 the Earth, 



Restrain them from mounting guard over the body of this son 



of Adam . . . (the name of the sick man). 

 Recall all thy followers from village, field, jungle, sea and land. 

 Call them back from the four corners of the Earth, 

 The hundred thousand Jin and the hundred thousand Dewa, 

 And any Jins not already mentioned, 

 Tiie Bomor and the Mindok will tell of them. 

 I pray you accept this sacrificial ofiering, 

 It is not my saciifice, but that of the learned Akmal Hakim, 

 Hail ! First of the Mindohy 

 Hail ! Earliest of the Peiirl 



Having recited this the hovioT feUri gives the sacrifice 

 to aDybody sitting near by, who places it on the ground 

 outside, close to the house, and puts one hghted candle 

 of beeswax near it. The To' Mindok now starts to 

 Mdle and sing the Mrtaheh a kind of introductory 

 apology, during which he scatters handfuls of toasted 

 rice about the room, and may even put some of it into 

 his mouth. The full band strikes up. The bertahek is 

 sung in a plaintive tone ; it is a very lengt.hy incantation 



1 The Black Cow lives uader the earth ; her legs form the pillars and Uxo 

 props ; her tail ia tho faxmer ; her body ib the leveUer and the abaket, and her 

 mouth Lj the tnovor. 



