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bjlëmbara Aji. It was composed by a dalai] for the use of Mr Moens who asked for information on popular Central Javanese belief in invulnerability magic. 12.542 40.300 35,5 x 23,5 cm 1368 pp. (no origi- outside, nal numbering), 29 x 16 cm writing, Javanese script 178 polychrome il lustrations, crayon, partly naturalistic, partly in wayag style, severely damaged and soiled 19 lines, thick im port paper, lined, Javanese leather binding (goat), worked, severely damaged Tales on magic sometimes practised in the country-side to destroy pests {ama) infesting crops; the peasants, both men and women, perform circumambulations in the fields, as often as not wholly naked, with flowers in their hair, burning incense, beating wooden musical instruments and carrying a board bearing a magic im age, painted or carved in the wood, or a large polychrome wooden mask (mum mery), allegedly representing some spirit or supernatural being. Prayers (me!), partly Arabic, partly Javanese, ancl the directions of the processions through the fields are mentioned. Sexual symbolism and primitive ithyphallic ceremonies and gestures are ap

parent. The information is couched in 20 phan- tastic stories telling the origin of the boards, registered in a list written by Mr Moens on one of the pages of the book. The stories were composed by a dalarj for the use of Mr Moens, who asked for information on the function of the boards with images seen and collected by him. He used to call them criss boards (kris-planken), because he had observed that they were sometimes used as wall-decoration inside the houses, and as racks to suspend crisses when not in use (the criss was stuck in a loop running through two small holes in the centre of the board). The boards are called tlawiqan (tlawugan) or aqkiq in the Javanese text. LOr 12.542 is volume II of Mr Moens’ col lection of tales on "kris-planken". In Mr Moens’ list the following names of spirits whose images are found on the boards are mentioned: 1: tlawirjan Busur (cf. Basur, in Hooykaas, 1978) 2: agkig Limbog 3: agkig kyahi Barug 4: panulak tlawigan Bancur 5: aijkig Sëmar Mèsëm 6: agkig Këntui] 7: procession of naked women with smouldering sticks (upat) with the cold ends stuck in their vaginas, and naked men with their phallusses stuck in screws of leaves (sèmprotj), carrying a board with an image of Garèg. 8: Watag Dlurug, see Plates 8, 9 and 10. 9: Guntur Gëni 10: Crubuk 11: Jaka Tlawa