Miscellaneous Notes on Malaysian Magic and Aspects of Spirit-Mediumship in Peninsular Malaysia
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In the early 1970s, the Museums Department in Kuala Lumpur gave an entire volume of its journal to Malaysian magic and spirit-mediumship. This is that volume.
William Shaw’s Miscellaneous Notes on Malaysian Magic and Aspects of Spirit-Mediumship in Peninsular Malaysia runs to 176 pages. It’s a study of what people believed and how they practised it, not a guide to doing any of it.
Volume 18 of the Federation Museums Journal, published by the Museums Department. A small piece of Malaysian scholarship, and a good one to have on the shelf if you’re curious about Malay belief and the people who stood at the edge of the unseen