THE SUPERSTITIONS OP THE MINTlRAc 
309 
ed by the Malays dod pendmding prayers or invocations of defence,* * 
(from dinding , a wall,) which must be repeated seven times at sun 
rise, and seven times at sun set. The following' are examples of 
pend hiding used for protection against the maleficence of enemies. 
PENDINDING. 
Hong kachula katumbo bisi kanduri idng Hmu kahutan katungalan 
nku ta’dindmg batu aku baring dedinding bumitiferap Mrtarap tutop 
ilngtn salagori kan lawanku santa sabut diddlam gantong klam kabufc 
mata orang miningo aku da tang klam kabut plimun aku malimun 
siklian. muso sitruku lawanku guru sidik turun berdoa aku mingina- 
kan doa plimun siklian mata muso sitrukan lawanku. (1) 
PENDINDING. 
Heh pisamin namanra. bisi aku diam dalam kandang maleikat sa¬ 
il las dikiriku aku diam dalam kandong kandang maleikat sablas di- 
(1) INVOCATION OF THE INWALLED. 
Hong ! horn, iron shoot, an offering of the wise to the forest in so- 
i.itude.f I am not walled with stone, I recline walled by the Earth 
my face downwards; cover me Salagori wind from my enemies. 
* The proper meaning is probably “the invocation of him who is walled 
in. ” 
■f With all the assistance which I have been able to procure from the best 
native Malayan scholars, I am unable to give.a translation on which I can 
rely of some parts of these rugged and disjointed invocations. 
Hong,— no Malay can explain the meaning of this word further than that 
it is used in original Malayan invocations in the same way as the Arabic 
JHsmillah in the modern or modified ones. It is deemed a very unhallow¬ 
ed word, of great power, and so panas, (hot), that if any man uses a Hong 
invocation three times nothing that he undertakes for himself will succeed, 
and he will live powerful and miserable, able to afflict or assist others, una¬ 
ble to help himself. It appears to be considered as a recognition of an Es¬ 
sence or First Principle beyond God, and an appeal to It for power which 
God has not granted to man. It is used in Javanese invocations, and a Ja¬ 
vanese explains it to mean Embryo of Being, Primeval Essence, so that Sir 
T. Raffles conjecture that is the Hindu Om [Aum) is probably correct.— 
History of Javaj2nd vol. p. 369. 
Kachula. Chula (instead of tandok) is the name given to hard horns 
or horn-like parts of animals, believed to possess magical or medicinal pro¬ 
perties. lang limit \ilmu] kahutan katungalan. The Malays cannot affix 
any definite meaning to the first two lines. Instead of the rendering given 
above a better one would perhaps be [magical] science for protection when 
alone in the forest,—or to make the offerer alone as when surrounded by a 
forest. 
