I. Introduction : I. INTRODUCTION THIS book deals with the magic of the Muslim Malays of the Crown Colony of the Straits Settlements, comprising Singapore, Penang and Malacca; of the Federated Malay States, Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Pahang; of the Unfederated Malay States, Johore, Kedah, Kelant...
Iii. The Malay Magician : III. THE MALAY MAGICIAN ANTHROPOLOGY and history confirm the various stages in the development of the Malay magician. First he was the Indonesian animist, requiring no initiation into his office and no help from a familiar spirit. Hunting, fishing, planting, and healing the sick demanded merely...
Title Page : SHAMAN, SAIVA AND SUFI A STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF MALAY MAGIC BY R. O. WINSTEDT, M.A., D.LITT.(OXON.) MALAYAN CIVIL SERVICE CONSTABLE & COMPANY LTD. LONDON--BOMBAY--SYDNEY 1925 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BV ROBERT MACELHOSE AND CO. LTD, THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW Scanned , April 2000. J. B. Hare...
Ii. Gods, Spirits And Ghosts : II. GODS, SPIRITS AND GHOSTS (A) PRIMITIVE GODS THE Mantra, a Proto-Malay tribe, claim to be descended from Mertang, the first magician, who was the child of two persons called Drop of Water and Clod of Earth. In the Moluccas the earth is a female deity, who in the west monsoon is impregnated by...
Ix. Magic And Man : IX. MAGIC AND MAN To protect the soul-substance of his staple food-plant the Malay peasant, conservative as agriculturists all the world over, is content with the primitive ritual of the animist, covered for decency's sake with a thin veneer of his later religions. Courts and ports, where new...
Xi. Magician And Mystic : XI. MAGICIAN AND MYSTIC ONCE more the Malay magician sat at the feet of Indian teachers, this time as a student of Muslim pantheism. To India have been traced the first use of the Sufi term "fana" for loss of the individual self in God, and the Sufi's acquaintance with the practice of "watching...
X. Magician And Muslim : X. MAGICIAN AND MUSLIM A rough granite monolith inscribed with Muslim laws in the Malay language and Arabic lettering, recently discovered in Trengganu, is evidence that Islam had reached the east coast of the Malay Peninsula as early as the fourteenth century. At the beginning of the next century...
Vii. The Malay Shaman's S'eance : VII. THE MALAY SHAMAN'S SANCE THE main tasks of the Siberian shaman are healing and divination. His familiar spirit or spirits, possessing him their medium, descend at a "sance" to cure the sick, avert evil, foretell the future or answer enquiries. By auto-suggestion the shaman falls or pretends...
V. The Soul Of Things : V. THE SOUL OF THINGS THF, primitive Malay looked below the outer aspect of man and beast and plant and stone and found a veiled power or inner life for which their exterior is the host or tabernacle. This animating spirit he called the vital "spark" (semangat), probably because the dead are cold...
Iv. The Malay Charm : IV. THE MALAY CHARM THERE are three words used by Malays for incantation or charm, two of them Sanskrit ("jampi"; "mantra"), the other the Arabic word for prayer ("do'a"). Charms are employed in agricultural operations, by fishermen, hunters, fowlers and trappers; to abduct or recall the soul;...
Vi. The Ritual Of The Rice Field : VI. THE RITUAL OF THE RICE-FIELD IN the magic safe-guarding rice from seed-time to harvest survives the primitive ritual of the Indonesian race. Strip away the obvious accretions, the names of Hindu deities, the thin Muslim veneer, and the essence of the ritual remains intact in Malaya to-day. It...
Viii. The Shaman's Sacrifice : VIII. THE SHAMAN'S SACRIFICE AT "the primitive annual nocturnal rite" of feasting the spirits of the regalia and State of Perak the head of a pink buffalo was set on the topmost tier of the altar, the royal princesses held bits of the sacrifice on their laps, and there was a feast on the spot while...
Preface : PREFACE THis book is the outcome of a close study of the language and beliefs of the Malays during a period of residence in the Malay Peninsula that has now reached twenty-two years. Its object is to unravel a complex system of magic in the light of historical and comparative data. By itself this...
