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RELIGION AND MAGIC AMONG THE MALAYS 
OF THE PATANI STATES 
By NELSON ANNANDALE, B.A. 
PART II 
Ghosts and Ancestor Worship 
A LTHOUGH, as has been shown in a former part, the Malays of the 
Patani States regard many naturally organized things—vegetable and 
mineral as well as animal—as beings endowed with a soul, even 
extending the same property to certain objects made with men’s hands, yet I am 
not aware that they believe that the souls of animals, plants, minerals, houses or 
the like, remain in existence after the dissolution of their concrete bodies as 
actual spectres, unless it be in the case of certain animals, which have become 
kramat or sacred (like the crocodile, ’Toh Sri Lam) and do not really die, though 
their bodies may appear to do so. 
It is otherwise with human beings ; but it is not clear, in many cases, which 
of the souls I have enumerated becomes the ghost, or, indeed, whether it may 
not be some other vaguely imagined emanation, which has no very definite 
existence as an entity during the physical life of the person. It has been already 
noted that men’s bait are sometimes called haniu orange but 1 have been told 
by Jalor peasants that there are other bantu orang y also called jimbalam orange 
which are not badi % though they originate from dead men. These jimbalam 
orang may occasionally be seen at night in waste places, leaning on long sticks, 
wearing red caps and eating earth. If anyone is bold enough to seize one of 
their caps, and swift enough to escape their pursuit, he will gain the ‘great 
science* {bilmu besar }, that is to say, the art of becoming invisible. These 
ghosts appear to be closely connected with the Earth Spirits, which will be 
described later. 
In the town of Patani one of the most dreaded of spirits is the hantu 
bungkus or bantu galas (Bundle or Package Spirit), whose proper form is that 
of a white cat, but which lies about at night in lanes leading to the cemetery in 
the form of a bundle of dirty white rags. Should a person pass it who is afraid, 
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