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made between the two groups is based mainly on the fact that magic and divination found official recognition of Javanese scholars whereas folklore and popular superstition did not. The manuscripts registered in the present Synopsis under the heads from 40.000 till 42.000, texts on medicines, magic, divination etc., contain pieces of information which are interesting for students of folklore. The legends, local cults, customs and ceremonies described in manuscripts registered in 45.000 up to 49.000 also are interesting in this respect. In Part One, Religion, many incantations, prayers and exorcist practices have been mentioned (12.000—-12.800, Old Javanese and Javanese-Balinese; 15.500 and 15.600, Islamic Javanese), and in Part Three, Belles- Lettres, a number of exorcist tales has been registered (30.225, Old Javanese and Java nese-Balinese, 31.080, Javanese wayai3 plays). All these texts are more or less related to the popular beliefs which are described in the codexes registered under the present head. In the last decades of the nineteenth cen tury and in the twentieth century Dutch scholars requested Javanese authors to- write notes on folklore and related subjects, in the same way as papers on local legends and customs were written. Javanese folk-tales

and children’s stories were also collected by Javanese authors at the suggestion of Dutch scholars (see 31.420). Manuscripts containing the latter kind of literature are listed in the General Index under the catchwords folk tales and children. Due to the incidental character of the writing of notes on folklore they are spread over many manuscripts. Under the catch words folklore, superstition, boar, crocodile, tiger, were-tiger, dog, taboo, papali, manu scripts containing information on the subject are registered in the General Index. 49.210 Notes on Javanese beliefs and cus toms, by Javanese Christians: cod. 10.820. 49.220 Gugon-Tuhon, by Puspa Kusuma, Kuta Arja: cod. 8979 no 5. 49.230 Notes on folklore, were-tigers, ma- can gaduijan, etc., by Kujana: cod. 6305, 6307. 49.240 Ceremonial addresses, weddings : cod. 6448. 49.250 Belief in spirits, by Sutarja, Yogya- karta: cod. 8978. 49.260 Panitisan, incarnation in animals, coll. Moens, Yogyakarta: cod. 10.930 (coloured drawings).