On the 28th January 1897 I witnessed (at Chodoi, in the Kuala Langat district of Selangor) the ceremony of fetching home the Rice-soul. Time of Ceremony.--I arrived at the house belonging to the Malay owner of the rice-field a little past 8 A.M., the hour at which the ceremony was to take place having been fixed at angkat kening (about 9 A.M.) a few days previously. On my arrival I found the Pawang (sorceress), an aged Selangor woman, seated in front of the baskets required for the ceremony. [419] Accessories.--At her extreme left stood one of the circular brass trays with high sides which are called dulang by the Malays, containing the following objects:-- 1. A small bowl of "parched rice" (b'ras ber'tih). 2. A small bowl of "saffron rice" (b'ras kunyit). 3. A small bowl of "washed rice" (b'ras basoh). 4. A small bowl of "oil of frankincense." 5. A small bowl of "oil of Celebes" (minyak Bugis). 6. A small bowl of "incense" (kem'nyan). 7. A small bundle of incense (in addition to the bowl). 8. One of the hard jungle-nuts called buah k'ras (the candle-nut). 9. One of the shells called k'rang (a cockle shell). 10. A hen's egg. 11. A stone (a small block of quartz). 12. A large iron nail. 13 to 15. Three Malay reaping instruments (penuwei). [420] Close to the dulang stood a cocoa-nut shell filled with the tepong tawar, which plays so prominent a part in Malay magic ceremonies, and a brush made up of the leaves of seven different plants, bound up as usual with a cord of kulit t'rap (the bark of the Wild Breadfruit), and ribu-ribu (a kind of small creeper). The plants which supplied the leaves of which the brush was composed, were as follows:-- 1. Sapenoh. 2. Sapanggil. 3. Jenjuang (or lenjuang) merah (the Red Dracæna). 4. Gandarusa. 5. Pulut-pulut. 6. Selaguri. 7. Sambau dara (a kind of grass). But the most interesting object was a small oval-shaped basket bound with the ribu-ribu creeper, and about fourteen inches long, which was standing just in front of the three rice-baskets and close to the Pawang, and which, as I afterwards found out, was intended to serve as the cradle of the Rice-soul (or "Rice-baby"). I examined it, however, and found that as yet it only contained the following objects:-- 1. A strip of white cloth (folded up and lying at the bottom of the basket). 2. Some parti-coloured thread (benang panchawarna or pancharona). 3. A hen's egg. 4. One of the hard jungle-nuts (candle-nuts) already referred to. 5. A cockle shell (k'rang). 6. A long iron nail. 7. Five cubits of red cloth by means of which the soul-basket was to be slung round the neck of its bearer. (The correcter custom would require an expensive cloth of the kind called jong sarat, or the "Loaded Junk," according to my informant the Pawang.)