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 SIDI, SIAMANG, ADUNADA

On page 605 of Skeat's "Malay Magic," under LXX occur the lines:—

Bukan-nya aku yang bĕrburu, Pawang Sidi yang bĕrburu; Bukan-uya uku yang punya anjing, Pawang Sakti yang punya anjing.

on page 640, under CXCIX

Maalim Saidi yang punya lawar Maalim Karimun yang mĕnawar

—in a Perak MS. Charm-book, Maalim Karimum is found on page 607 (LXXIII)

Bukan aku yang bĕrburu, To patek Sung Sidi yang bĕrburu:

on page 589, XV

Aku-lah yang bĕrnama Dato Mĕntala Guru Sakti di-rumah: Sĕdang Sidi nama-nya aku:

on page 607, LXXVI

O sĕrba Saidi Tuan patek yang punya rusa:

on page 590, XVIII

Bĕrkat Sidi těrjali sĕndiri, Mĕnjadikan sakalian alam.

Now in all the above quotations Sidi is taken to be the name of a person; and in some cases is confused with the Arabic saidi 'lord,' either by the Malay pawang or by his European transcriber. But clearly sĕrba Saidi is a very doubtful phrase in the context, if it is to be rendered "all sorts of Lords;" and běrkal Sidi těrjali sěndiri, if it referred to a pawang, would ascribe to him preposterous powers. However in the first of the quotations, sidi