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MALAY MAGIC

MALAY MAGIC

BEING

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FOLKLORE AND POPULAR RELIGION OF THE MALAY PENINSULA

BY WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE OF THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES WITH A PREFACE BY CHARLES OTTO BLAGDEN MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, AND FORMERLY OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS CIVIL SERVICE

London MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1900 All rights reserved

TO

SIR CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH

KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE AND FORMERLY GOVERNOR OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS

THIS BOOK IS (BY PERMISSION) DEDICATED

“The cry of hosts [we] humour

Ah! slowly, toward the light.”

Rudyard Kipling.