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cg8 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII,
6a. Lei'.k tebul (" kelulut meat")- This name denotes
the fondness of the bear for robbing
the nest^ of bees, especially of a small kind
which the .Malays call kelulut.
7.1. Leuk chenor or Leak pachor (" thorny meat ").
Refers, of course, to the porcupines spines.
8a. Leuk teh "earth meat" Refers to the wild
pig's habit of routing up the soil in quest of
edible roots, etc.
ga. Leuk senyup (."dark meat"). Refers to the
Benturong's nocturnal habits. The second
name. Leuk bakok, seems to have the same
meaning.
10a. Leuk danum. I could get no proper translation
mum, but it seems to refer to the habit
of individuals of this species of sleeping together
in companie«durmg moonlight night i
— like fowls in a fowl-house, as the Sakai said.
11a. Leuk iot meat "), the name being
given owing to Bamboo-rats making their
• holes in the Ixises of clumps of bamboos.
ha. 'water meat"). The soft-turtles
live in ponds and rivers.
13a. Leuk gersuk (" stone meat "), because this species
of tortoise may easily be mistaken for a
stone if seen from a little distance.
14a. Leuk hok (" cocoanut-shell meat"), because
the carapace looks like a cocoanut-shell.
The calling of any of these animals by their ordinary
names while their flesh is being eaten will cause the offender
to suffer from colic. I fancy, however, that the observance of
these customs i- becoming somewhat neglected by the Scnoi
of the Behrang Valley.
Another belief with regard to food is that a man whose
food is played with by someone else will suffer from colic
[vide belief with regard to the Batch Busud. infra, p. 21 4).
Ratil told me that, among the Sakai of the Slim Valley
w imen and children did not eat the heads of Berok ami Kera
monkeys (Maca d \1 onolgus), because
of the sabat* which resides above the eyes in these animals.
Infraction of this rule, it was thought, would cube them to
suffer from violent pains in the head, which might even be a
cause of death. The custom is not observed on the Behrang
River.
It is not allowable to cook turmeric with pig's flesh; the
breaking of this rule will entail the transgressors falling ill with
jaundice and fever.
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