First of all you perform the ceremony called "Driving out the Mischief" (buang badi) from the sick man (vide supra) in or to drive away all evil spirits (menolak sakalian chekedi atau hantu). Then wrap the patient up in a white or black cloth, and taking a ball of (kneaded) dough (tepong pengalin), eggs and saffron, repeat the suitable charm, and roll it all over the skin of the patient's body in order to draw out all poisonous influences (menchabut sagala bisa-bisa). Then if you find inside the ball of dough after opening it an infinitesimally small splinter of bone, or a few red hairs, you will know that these belong to the evil spirit who has been plaguing the patient. The charm to be used when rolling the ball of dough over the skin runs as follows:-- "Peace be unto you, O Shadowy Venom! Venom be at ease no longer! Venom find shelter no longer! Venom take your ease no longer! May you be blown upon, O Venom, by the passing breeze! May you be blown upon, O Venom, by the yellow sunset-glow, May the Pounce of this Lanthorn's lightning kill you; May the Pounce of this Twilight's lanthorn kill you, May the Shaft of the Thunderbolt kill you; May the Fall of the heavy Rains kill you, May the Inundation of Flood-waters kill you; May you be towed till you are swamped by this my head-cloth, May you be drowned in the swell of this my dough-boat. By the grace of," etc. A second charm of great length follows, the object of which is to drive out the evil spirit in possession of the man. An example of this form of cure as practised by Malay medicine-men is referred to by Mr. Clifford, who, in speaking of his punkah-puller, Umat, says:-- "It was soon after his marriage that his trouble fell upon Umat, and swept much of the sunshine from his life. He contracted a form of ophthalmia, and for a time was blind. Native Medicine Men doctored him, and drew sheaves of needles and bunches of thorns from his eyes, which they declared were the cause of his affliction. These miscellaneous odds and ends used to be brought to me at breakfast-time, floating, most unappetisingly, in a shallow cup half-full of water; and Umat went abroad with eye-sockets stained crimson, or black, according to the fancy of the native physician. The aid of an English doctor was called in, but Umat was too thoroughly a Malay to trust the more simple remedies prescribed to him, and though his blindness was relieved, and he became able to walk without the aid of a staff, his eyesight could never really be given back to him." [679]