82 MALAY POISONS AND CHAEM CUBES 



If thou art in the hands of my patient 



His hands pay homage to God and also to the I^ophet, 



If thou art in the liver of my patient 



This is the secret (place) of God, the secret (place) too of His 

 Prophet, 



If thou art in the heart of my patient 

 Know that the heart is Abuhakar's palace. 

 If thou art in the lungs of my patient 

 Know that the lunga are Omar's palace, 

 If thou art in the spleen ^ of my patient 

 Know that it is the palace of Ali, 

 The heart, the lungs, the spleen and the gall-bladder. 

 Are the homestead of Life, 

 They are not the homestead of Jin or Devil, 

 Nor are they the homestead of aickneaa and suffering. 

 Ho, there ! 0 Jin ! thy origin was in the fumes from the " flame- 

 tongue " of smokeless Hell I 

 I know the origin of Barijin thy father. 

 Thy mother's name was MtrnjiUf 

 Thy child's name was Narijin. 



The pSfiri now returns to the mat and either stands 

 or sits in front of the To* Mindok, holding out his hands 

 for the band to stop playing. He is again questioned by 

 the To' Mindok, who asks Who is he ? "—to which the 

 peteri rephes either that it is a jin, or perhaps a famihar, 

 or merely a disease. He is asked how the jin (if it be a 

 jin) got in and by whom sent. Sometimes no reply is 

 given to the last question, but, in any case, a good deal 

 more coaxing by the To' Mindok and promises of food, 

 etc, is required before the peieri gives any satisfactory 

 reply. He is asked to keep the jin out of the way in 

 future, and so on, until the To' Mindok, having 

 exhausted all his questions, recommences to play, as also 

 do the other two musicians. The bofmr p^iiri shakes 

 his head about again for, perhaps, five minutes, then 

 suddenly stops and holds out his hands to the To' 

 Mindok. The To' Alindok asks if the jin has been taken 



* The word Umpa is used for flploen. The bomor p^Uri (To' DSraman) 

 explains that the spleen is only called kura when it becomce enlarged by repeated 

 ftttacks of agna, because the spleen then rE«wm>>Ip'» a tort-oiw {hira) in ghape 

 {d^mnn lura, fpver with flgii(»). 



