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trations in wayag style, crayon (in 12.550/51 no illus trations) 33 and 35 lines, thick import paper, lined, Javanese leather binding (goat), worked Sajarah Jim, phantastic genealogy of spirits, male and female, Sétan and Dëmit, their marriages and offspring, mentioning a great number of individual names. The lists °f w ayag plays which are said to contain the history of successive generations of spirits fill 13 chapters of LOr 12.549. LOr 12.550 contains a Sajarah Sétan, Jim, Dëmit, a phantastic history of three races of spirits, called Sétans, Jims and Dëmits, who are said to be at war one w *th another over the boundaries of their states. The Sétans are said to be shaped in three forms: Yahudi, Martudi (murtadd: re negate) and Srani (nasrani: Christian). The text contains names of individual spirits, and lists of wayag plays which are said to relate their exploits and genealogies. Mr Moens wrote a note on the contents of the 13 chapters on one of the first pages of the book. TOr 12.551 contains: Séluman, lists of spmits belonging to an invisible society which is a replica of human society, also lv 'ded into various nations or races and ri ^ ed hy kings etc. The lists, filling 17 apters, contain the names of wayag plays which deal with the birth, exploits in life, a nd death of a very great number of spirits,

both male and female, whose personal names and residences are mentioned in full. This system of Séluman wayag plays is a replica of the well-known system of wayag purwa plays dealing with the lives of the Javanese wayag purwa heroes. There can be little doubt that the system of Séluman wayag plays was fabricated by a dalag for the use of Mr Moens, who asked for information on popular Javanese belief in spirits. A number of the spirit names mentioned in the lists may be genuine, belonging to well established folklore in the countryside in South Central Java. A con siderable humber of names seems to be invented by the dalag on the analogy of well-known names, simply to fill his lists. His invented spirit society is in a way comparable with Ragga Warsita’s pseudo- historic genealogy of Javanese kings, with a fabricated chronology, registered in his Pustaka Raja, and with the phantastic Surya Raja tales of the Yogyakarta kraton. It is unknown whether Sastra Diharja, who signed his name on the last page, of LOr 12.551, was the original author or a scribe. 12.552 35,5 x 23,5 cm outside, 31 x 17 cm writing, 4 illustrations, pen cil drawings, naturalistic style, many leaves are dirty and damaged 34 lines, thin im port paper, lined.

31.110 1021 pp. (no origi nal numbering), Javanese script