166 MALAY POISONS AND CHARM CUBES 



rmgid in combination with the pill -millepede and the 

 bristle-bearing worm (ulat hulu laui). These were 

 weighted and smik by means of a " thunderbolt- 

 stone " (baiu lintar) to which they were attached. 

 The people concerned experienced pain and distension 

 of the stomach, but were not seriously ill. Magic 

 powers are ascribed by Malays to the *' celts," or 

 " stone-age " implements commonly called "thunder- 

 bolts." 



Mixtures of Rengut. — A similar vehicle for the 

 administration of huah rengut is prepared by crushing 

 the pill-millepede in the same way and adding the galls 

 of the honey-bear and horned toad-frog. Another 

 combination is to take buah rmgui, the bristles of the 

 marine worm, and lime and make them up into a bolus 

 with the gall of a frog. Or as a poison huah rengui 

 may either be mixed into cooked rice, given in water, 

 suspended in the bUe of the globe-fish {ikan bu7ital), or, 

 in combination with other things, put into wells, a 

 procedure which is not an unusual method of adminis- 

 tering other Malay poisons, such as datura, hiredin, 

 chingkiani ringaSf andjuha. Another poisonous pre- 

 paration for consumption is made by combining hitah 

 rengui with the bristles of the " sea-worm " and the 

 roasted substance of a jelly-fish {geronggong laut). 

 These three ingredients are suspended in the mucus 

 obtained by crushing the pill-millepede and the land- 

 snail (Nanina humphi'eysiana). The jelly-fish is the 

 common small white " sea-nettle," wliich is itself able 

 to inflict a very severe, and in some cases a dangerous, 

 sting. 



Malays are very chary about collecting even a single 

 specimen of the rengiit fruit ; even the Negritos seldom 

 gather the dry fruit, because the dust which is present 

 may cause blindness. Malays say that wild monkeys 



