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19: B. Dandun Wacana 20: B.jagal 21: B. kurda 22: B. Diyu Mamag (in his ears) 23: B. bajag (in sumur upas) 24: B. and Aswatama 25: B. and Danyarj Jambira Rahu 26: B. céwol 27: B. in search of lisah tala 28: Abiyasa is given lërja tala by the gods 29: B. digging a canal (susukan) 30: B. in kali Bëdog 21: B. in kali Jënës 12.577 35 X 22 cm out side, 26 x 13 cm writing, 246 polychrome illustrations in Wa yatj style, cr ayon, beginning severely damaged by moisture 20 lines, partly thick, partly thin import paper, lined, Javanese leather binding (goat), se verely damaged Bima (Wërkudara) metamor phosis tales couched in 24 wayaij PUrwa plays composed by a dalaq for the u se of Mr Moens who asked for informa- ti°n on the role of Bima in popular Central J a vanese belief and floklore. The 24 tales are partly ithyphallic, expatiating on Bi- 013 s genitals and copulation with a variety °f beings, many superhuman. Exorcism of

evil spirits, pests damaging the crops on the fields, by means of circumambulations of wholly naked men, is mentioned also. See Plates 5 and 6, and frontispiece. The plays are: 1: (damaged) Bima Birawa (demoniacal) 2: B. kantèt 3: B. wanita 4: B. Wënag (deity) 5: B. gambai} (copulation with crocodile) 6: B. glèntèr (abnormally long phallus) 7: B. sulur (birth in caul) 8/9: B. tlaté (elephant’s trunk and phallus) 10: B. tulak (fighting pests in agriculture, ithyphallism) 11: B. gatjdul (swollen scrotum, cured by Arimbi) 12: B. kacëp (copulation with dèwi Uma) 13: B. medamël (fighting pests, tlawiyan Busur), see Plates 5 and 6 and fron tispiece. 14: B. jédorj (swollen belly), devored 15: B. juwing (torn by demons) 16: B.’s urine: magic 17: B’s pair of phalluses; the left one is bitten off 18: B. gèlèq (B. grows horns, having eaten woh kuldi, and begets a son with a buffalo) 19: B. bèsèr (diseased urethra, cured by Arimbi) 20: B. poroij (after copulation with Durga) 21: B. ijanja-anja (walking on the hands; lost phallus) ; 22: Arimbi playing gatèg with B’s testi cles, which he had lost) 23: B. in river Sërayu, glans penis lost: top used for playing 24: B. lélur (son begotten with an elephant)

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