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me that his people acknowledge a Dana Punan (Desire Spirit).
who is responsible for ill luck met with by those who have
given it an opportunity of causing them trouble.
The Giving oi Names.
Children are given names as soon as, or soon after, they
are born, but these are frequently changed. A child may be
named from some event which happened at about the time of
its birth, from the river near which it was born, from the
settlement in which its parents were living, or from some
peculiarity of person or habit.
One youth was named Jernang from the river near which
he was born, but was more usually called Si Kork from a
fanciful resemblance to a certain kind of bird, the tentork :
chechawi of the Malays (the racquet-tailed drongo).
A baby girl was given the name of Tenyuk. because her
parents were keeping a scaly ant-eater [tenyuk) as a pet at the
time of her birth.
The father of this child, whose name was Sagap (meaning
" read}') ? " was so called because his birth was expected to
occur some time before it actually took place, and thus everything
was read)' much before it was necessary.
A little girl was called Krek (cockle because her chin was
thought to resemble a cockle-shell in shape ; another Puntok
or l'untong ("burnt log") because she always liked playing
about among the ashes of the cook-house fire.
Senoi Oaths.
Katil, the headman mentioned above, gave me the following
example of a Senoi oath, which I believe that I have
translated correctlv.
Dideh
"This