English: Identifier: paganracesofmala01skea
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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In the same connection, Hale says that each line(or word) was first chanted by the leader of thesong and then repeated in chorus by the rest. Mostof the expressions used were, however, well known tothem, and they often picked up the words to someextent as they went along. Words of the Songs.Apart from the words of the song given by Hale, Hale, ]). 299. De la Croix, in a Croix, p. 339). Cp. also Brau de similar account, adds, At times the Saint-Pol Lias, pp. 269-271. musical phrase dies away only to revive ^ Hale, p. 299. Hale adds that a suddenly and terminate in a long-drawn similar invocation or prayer was howl which is lost in the night. The addressed to the Spirits of the Forest, wild and profound poetry of the per- the mountains, the rivers, and the wind, formance produced a captivating effect the Spirits of Ancestors, the Spirits of in the midst of the great forest sur- Disease, the Spirits of Wickedness, and rounding us on every side (De la Trouhle of all kinds (Hale, p. 300).
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Sakai \\(.)Mkn and Child Performing Danck-Music.Note ihe head-dresses and girdles. (S. Perak.) Cerruti.
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