Note 223 — Chapter VI · Magic Rites as affecting the Life of Man (continued 3)
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Kala’s colour is a reddish black (hitam merah223); if you go out you will meet a bad man or have a quarrel; it is an unlucky time altogether: the good news one hears turns out untrue, and the bad true; illness occurring at this time is due to a ghost (hantu orang), and the remedy is a black fowl; in cock-fighting a black cock will beat a white one at this time, but when setting him to fight you must not face towards the west, etc.