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calling Murwa Kala only a special kind of wayai) performance. They know of other wayat) plays which are performed for special purposes: on the occasion of an annual village celebration, a wedding, and even to' make rain in a period of drought. Javanese opinion is not for making a difference between Murwa Kala and other wayai} plays. In fact, all wayarj plays are still considered by thoughtful people as somehow partaking of the character of mysteries. Therefore it seems best to register Javanese wayat} exorcism in the present Part Three, with the other kinds of wayat) texts. In Javanese civilization the wayai} lore occupies a central place, connected on all sides with the other domains of learning, both sacral and profane. In the 'twentieth century Murwa Kala exorcism has been the subject of several papers written by Dutch scholars. Manu scripts containing relevant texts have been registered in the General Index under the catchword exorcism. 31.191 Exorcist texts in verse, Paqruwa- tan, West Javanese origin : cod. 5593, 7847. 31.192 Murwa Kala wayai} play, exorcism, Surakarta, Yogyakarta: cod. 6431, 6525, 6526. 31.210 Wayai} Romances, Ver sified Plays and Textbooks. In the Pasisir districts and East Java, well- ordered pakëms, manuals for theatrical liter ature for the use of dalais, were very scarce. Unlettered wayai} performers relied on their memory, and those who were comparatively lettered made up wayai} plays from elements borrowed from books of tales. But on the other hand, well-known and popular wayai}

plays were often versified and edited by poets, who enlarged them in order to make sizable books. In many cases it is difficult to say whether the wayai} play or the poetical romance is the oldest form of a well-known tale. Probably since the flourishing period of the Sërat Kanda literature, in the seven teenth and eighteenth centuries, interaction was the rule. In the period of the renaissance of classical letters in Surakarta the inter action came to light in consequence of the appearance of many wayai} plays in written literature; before that time they were mostly transmitted orally. In East Java and Madura several wayai} purwa plays have been versified or made into prose romances since the middle of the nine teenth century. Of course many tales show similarity with passages of the major Sërat Kanda, which belongs to an older period, but the later poems and romances seem to con tain particulars and insertions which probably are due to the phantasy of wayai} performers. Under the present head some: East Java nese epic and romantic poems and prose tales based on wayai}, plays, or closely con nected with them, have been collected. Some of them were believed to have exorcizing influence, if recited. Darma Jati is also known in Bali. 31.211 Darma Jati, Javanese-Balinese ver sion : cod. 4181 (= 10.500 = BCB prtf 18), AdGUB 59, AdGUB 60. 31.212 Darma Jati, East Javanese, Java- nese-Madurese version: cod. 4947, RtMLV 28820 (= 6824), 8664, 9025, 10.555 (= BCB prtf 43 B, frag ment), CB 8. 31.213 Daqyai) Kapuluqan, in prose, from