"Let this my prayer be sharp as steel, Swift as lightning, Fleet as the wind! Grant this by virtue of my use of the prayer of Dato' Malim Karimun, Who has become a saint through religious penance Performed at the headwaters of the river of Saïran in the interior of Egypt, By the grace of," etc. I may add that when you are collecting the materials for a neutralising ceremony (tawar) the following formula should be used:-- "Not mine are these materials, They are the materials of Kemal-ul-hakim; [667] Not to me belongs this neutralising charm, To Malim Saidi belongs this neutralising charm. It is not I who apply it, It is Malim Karimun who applies it." Badi The next class of medicinal ceremonies consists of rites intended to effect the expulsion from the patient's body of all kinds of evil influences or principles, such as may have entered into a man who has unguardedly touched a dead animal or bird from which the badi has not yet been expelled, or who has met with the Wild Huntsman in the forest. [668] Badi is the name given to the evil principle which, according to the view of Malay medicine-men, attends (like an evil angel) everything that has life. [It must not be forgotten when we find it used of inert objects, such as trees, and even of stones or minerals, that these too are animate objects from the Malay point of view.] Von de Wall describes it as "the enchanting or destroying influence which issues from anything, e.g. from a tiger which one sees, [669] from a poison-tree which one passes under, from the saliva of a mad dog, from an action which one has performed; the contagious principle of morbid matter." Hence the ceremony which purports to drive out this evil principle is of no small importance in Malay medicine. I may take this opportunity of pointing out that I have used the word "mischief" to translate it when dealing with the charms, as this is the nearest English equivalent which I have been able to find; indeed, it appears a very fairly exact equivalent when we remember its use in English in such phrases as "It's got the mischief in it," which is sometimes used even of inanimate objects.