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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
In Malay Poisons and Charm Cures by the late Dr. J. G. Gimlette (London, 1929, pp. 79–94 and 274–280), and in Danses magiques de Kelantan, by Jeanne Cuisinier (Travaux et mémoires de l'lnstitut d'Ethnologie XXII, Paris, 1936, ch. 8), there are descriptions of a propitiary ceremony to cleanse that Malay state (pūjā něgěri) by séance, dancing, and sacrifice, conducted by a male or female shaman termed for the occasion “princess” (putrī). Who was this “princess” ? Folklore speaks of a putrī Sadong adopted by a queen of Kelantan 600 years ago and also of a putrī Sakdom.
1 Final -i in Kelantan becomes -ing and final -ing becomes -im; the consonant in a last syllable is unstressed and vague.