Note 896 — Chapter IX · UNLUCKY DAYS
Reading edition
J. Winkler, “Der Kalender der Toba-Bataks auf Sumatra,” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 1913, xlv, 436-447. Among the Batta dwelling inland from the Bay of Tapanuli the priest or magician, whose duty it is to announce propitious days, is a most important functionary in every village. The people “will not engage in any undertaking, however trifling, or make the smallest alteration in their domestic economy, without first consulting him” (Burton and Ward, in Memoirs of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1827, i, 500).