CO MALAY MAGIC MALAY MAGIC CKING 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 ILonfcon MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY : IQOO AIIrightsreserved 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 ofhosts [we] humour Ah! slowly, toward the light." RUDYARD KIPLING.