Malay

 

"Malay shamanistic performance"

divinations to discover aetiology of illnesses

 

p. 140, fn. 69 sekun, raksi, janji, temuan (harmony, good-luck, promises, meetings)

p. 93 origin of genies from emergence of the first man & the first woman

 

p. 104 Lagu ("Tune")

 

p. 143 the gates

 

pp. 118-20 main peteri -- spirits speaking, successively, through the shaman

 

pp. 124-179 complete text of the same main peteri

 

pp. 183-184 seance for ailing shaman -- spirits speaking, successively, through other (curing) shaman

 

[pp. 186-213 is complete text of the same seance for ailing shaman]

introductory song, by the minduk ("shaman's assistant")

 

gerak angin ("bestirring the wind"), by the minduk

 

the shaman's incantation

 

p. 198, fn. 56 Awang Kasim = "eyes of the shaman as he goes into trance" -- "the shaman shakes his head in trance", from Awang Mahat

p. 198, fn. 58 ""One king with two names" means that the shaman has taken a second persona; he is "carrying" a spirit."

pp. 217-218 ingredients for breaking contracts with the spirit-world

 

p. 222 said farm was to be offered to Sang Raya Uban

spirits coming to visit at the breaking contracts with the spirit-world

 

some of these spirits wept, sobbed as they were being abandoned by their human patron

classes of spirits encountered in breaking contracts with the spirit-world

 

p. 308 village-headmen spirits: one and many names

 

miscellaneous spirits

 

p. 314 to exorcize the jin who pierce the "soles of humanity's feet"

 

p. 319 characters of the winds, out of the "199 Winds"

 

p. 320 hantu, source of nafsu ("desires")

 

numerics

 

 

COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF HEALTH SYSTEMS AND MEDICAL CARE. Carol Laderman; Taming the Wind of Desire. U. of CA Pr, Berkeley, 1991.