Malay Magic by Walter William Skeat

Skeat, Walter William, 1866-1953

Chapter 51: 12. A large iron nail.

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Chapter 51: 12. A large iron nail.

13 to 15. Three Malay reaping instruments (penuwei). [420] Close to the dulang stood a cocoa-nut shell filled with the tepong tawar, which plays so prominent a part in Malay magic ceremonies, and a brush made up of the leaves of seven different plants, bound up as usual with a cord of kulit t'rap (the bark of the Wild Breadfruit), and ribu-ribu (a kind of small creeper). The plants which supplied the leaves of which the brush was composed, were as follows:--
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