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Malay Magic

Note 61 — Chapter IV · The Malay Pantheon

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The Hantu Songkei61 is the spirit who so often interferes with the toils for catching wild animals and snares for wildfowl (yang kachau jaring dan rachik). He is described as being invisible below the breast, with a nose of enormous length, and eye-sockets stretched sideways to such an extent that he can see all round him.

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