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from the body, and the Peaangalan flies forth 

 in pursuit of ks object, with the hair loose aod 

 streaming in the wind, whilst the unsightly in- 

 testines swiug to and fro in its course. The 

 food ot this creature is as disgusting as its ap- 

 pearance, consisting of the blood either of dead 

 men, or living enemies, and other substances too 

 gross to be named to ears polite " 



1 he Malays state that a maa had two wives, 

 the one black and the other white, who were 

 both Penangalans. He was informed of the cir- 

 cumstance, but scarcely ct edited it. In order 

 to ascertain the fact, he feigned a journey of 

 some days, and the women» believing him to have 

 left the house, departed on a Penangaian trip, 

 leaving their bodies behind. These the husband 

 changed, patting the body of the black one in 

 the place of t tie white one, and vice vcrjia. On 

 the return of the women, with their entrails 

 amazingly swollen from thtir foul banquet, each 

 entered a jar of vinegar in order to diminish their 

 size, and then re-animated the bodies, but, un- 

 known to themselves, effected an exchange, the 

 white one entering the black body, and ttie black 

 one the other, as they had not remarked the sub- 

 stitution. The husband, coming in, said, * Ha! 

 what is this? The head m\d neck are bluck, and 

 the body white, and the other is black with a 

 white head and neck i'" Hereported the circum- 

 stance to the king who ordered them both to be 

 put to death. 



Sianu thus enumerates * the evil spirits of the 

 Malays, viz; ** Jl^iis, or the prince of devils. 



• tndo Cbinete ffLeaaer, Vol. td. p. Hi, 



