WHAT DOES SUANGI MEAN IN MALAY?
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Definition of suangi in the Malay dictionary
suang I 1. sj ghosts; bird ~ owl; 2. the handler who got the help from the phantom. sombong II bomoh yang bekerja dengan bantuan orang-orang yang halus. suangi III; fish ~ = ~ sea fish sj, Holocentrum rubrum. suangi I 1. sj hantu yg jahat; burung ~ burung hantu; 2. pawang yg mendapat pertolongan drpd hantu.
suangi II bomoh yg bekerja dgn bantuan orang halus.
suangi III; ikan ~ = ~ batu sj ikan laut, Holocentrum rubrum.
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10 MALAY BOOKS RELATING TO «SUANGI»
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suangi in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
suangi and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Malay literature.
1
Humors and Substances: Ideas of the Body in New Guinea
tients will not easily admit an attack and why there are no public healing rituals to cure patients and kill suangi. For the sake of completeness, I should point out that patients often use a steam bath on their own initiative, without consulting a ...
Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern, 2001
2
Shifting Images of Identity in the Pacific - Halaman 68
The delegation had barely taken its leave before the common belief in suangi (sorcery, and witchcraft; to be followed) reared its head and drove a wedge between the Arfu and the Meyah again. The concept of sorcery has to be conceived of as ...
Toon van Meijl, Jelle Miedema, 2004
3
Landscapes of the Body: Reproduction, Fertility and ... - Halaman 54
This is referred to as suangi or arawegebi, or siwowoi, the latter two being Inanwatan terms which are, however, hardly ever used in public. Merely talking about suangi may already invoke its evil power. Therefore the euphemism na 'id ...
Dianne van Oosterhout, 2002
4
Perspectives on the Bird's Head of Irian, Jaya, Indonesia: ... - Halaman 8
Dianne van Oosterhout's materials on suangi witchcraft among the Inanwatan show interestingly that suangi is held to attack both the body and the soul of a victim. Suangi is a composite concept, partaking of elements of both sorcery and ...
Jelle Miedema, Cecilia Odé, Rien A. C. Dam, 1998
5
The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia - Halaman 166
In Maluku these alleged 'witches' were called collectively by the Malay word suangi (ghost) and were frequently accused by a shaman in trance of having caused illness or other calamities. 'When kings, dukes or ministers fall ill, they order ...
6
Islands of Java (with exception of the western part from ... - Halaman 272
A fixed white light is exhibited, at 154 feet above high water, from a white iron framework, 23 feet high, situated on the southeast part of Suangi, and should be seen from a distance of 17 miles. Front light. — At 1,200 yards 33° from the above ...
United States. Hydrographic Office, 1916
7
Publications - Trbtan 31 - Halaman 234
N. Entrance Gas Buoy. Kota Baru, on head of mole. Stagen (Setagin), near inner end of old pier. Outer end of new pier southward of above. Gas Buoy, E. side of Gosong Pajung near 9-foot rock. Gas Buoy, E. of Anak Suangi, W. ride of shoal.
United States. Hydrographic Office, 1925
8
Frontiers of Fear: Tigers and People in the Malay World, ...
Its best-known representative, at least to European ethnographers, is the suangi, mentioned as early as in a text dated 1621. The suangi was reported to exist in the Moluccas and on some of the Lesser Sunda Islands. Similar beings, indicated ...
9
Si Degil dari Pelalawan: kisah-kisah ringan dari masa ... - Halaman 282
113. Suangi. ADA umumnya orang Ekari sangat percaya kepada kekuatan magis yang bersifat baik dan buruk. Suatu hari terjadi pembunuhan yang dilakukan oleh penduduk satu kampung terhadap seorang warganya yang dituduh ...
10
One Head, Many Faces: New Perspectives on the Bird's ...
In the southwestern peninsula and hinterland, witchcraft, both suangi and lait, is both a female and a male affair; all lait is suangi, but not all suangi is lait (as suangi can also include 'evil from the outside'). In the central-western peninsula, ...
Jelle Miedema, Ger P. Reesink, 2004
