Identifier: paganracesofmala01skea (find matches)
Title: Pagan races of the Malay Peninsula
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Skeat, Walter William, 1866- Blagden, Charles Otto, 1864-1949
Subjects: Ethnology -- Malay Peninsula Malays (Asian people) Malay Peninsula -- Social life and customs Malay Peninsula -- Religion Malay Peninsula -- Aboriginal dialects
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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theevident care with which they were tended sounds morelike the work of tribes under Jakun influence, who likeother branches of the Malayan race are most particularin this respect. From all we know of the genuineSakai, they have so intense a terror of the ghosts ofthe deceased that they burn down the house, and evensometimes the village, in which a death has taken place,and never return to it. Can it be that deaths fromepidemic diseases inspire this terror among the Sakai,whilst those from old age or other milder causes donot ? I confess that I see no satisfactory explanation. To the foregoing account Mr. Wray now adds,that at Kuala Dipang, in Kinta, he saw the grave ofToh Sang, the chief of the South Kinta and a portion 1 Hale, p. 291. In a MS. note are thought to disappear and become Clifford says that the medicine-nicn tigers. For others there is no ceremony. ( ha-la) of the U. Kerbat Sakai are 2 l_ Wray in /. R. A. S., S. B., No. exposed after death in huts, when they 21, p. 125.
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