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40.380 Special magic, Javanese-Balinese, to bring rain (for agriculture), connected with incantations; cf. 40.350, fair weather magic: cod. 4400 (Pairjujanan), 9884 (Krt 1621, Pa]t}ujanan). 40.390 Javanese-Balinese charms, rajahs : cod. 5147 (= 10.466 = BCB prtf 8), 5294 (Balinese illustrations), 5435d-IV, AdKIT 1646/35 (spirits, illustrations). 40.400 Javanese-Balinese notes on magic incantations, Kawisésan, referring to gods, demons and spirits; cf. 12.000 and 12.400: cod. 9201 (Krt 201), 9339 (Krt 511), 9778 (Krt 1427), 9812 (Krt 1489, Macalit}), 9814 (Krt 1491, Suta Soma), 9815 (Krt 1492), 9857 (Krt 1590), 10.215 (Krt 2264), 11.022 (Kaputusan Batara Siwa). 40.500 Physiognomy of human beings, the lore of the interrelationship between ex ternal marks, physical shape and psychic qualities, character, has, on the one hand, an affinity with divination and the expla nation of prognostics (cf. 41.750). On the other hand, physiognomy of women is closely connected with eroticism and love-magic (cf. 40.750). The other kinds of physiognomy (in Javanese often called katura^gan, from turarjga: horse) have been mentioned in the opening remarks on magic in general (41.000, horse; 41.100, cocks; 41.250, doves; 41.500, cats; 41.600, crisses). In pre-Islamic and Javanese-Balinese liter ature, texts on human physiognomy in gen eral are scarce. Notes on female physiognomy are mostly incorporated in books on eroticism (40.750). In Javanese literature of the Muslim period, on the other hand, notes on human, and especially female, physiognomy, are of

frequent occurrence. In this period human physiognomy is called pirasat or wirasat (from Arabic firasa). Though books exclu sively dealing with pirasat are scarce, notes on this subject are found in many primbons and in encyclopedic works and compendiums. It is a remarkable fact that chiromancy, which is a kind of physiognomy practised often in other countries, is seldom mentioned in Javanese books. Javanese texts on female physiognomy have been published occasionally by local printers in Java. Van Hien’s “De Javaanse “Geestenwereld” contains some Dutch infor mation on the subject. Relevant manuscripts have been registered in the General Index under the catchword physiognomy. 40.510 Carcan Janma, Javanese-Balinese notes on human physiognomy, and prognos tics as to character: cod. 9524 (Krt 921). 40.520 Treatises on human and animal physiognomy, called Katuraijgan, and on Javanese mysticism, in verse, Yogyakarta, Pakualaman (compendium): cod. 6398. 40.530 Katurafjgan iij worj wadon, physiog nomy of women, with references to character, in verse, coll. Poensen: cod. 5783. 40.540 Iman Sapirp, didactic poem on wi rasat, etc.: cod. 11.018. 40.750 Texts on eroticism usually are connected with female physiognomy. Love- magic also is brought under this head, and so are magic practices, recipes and medicines for the preservation or enhancement of fe male beauty. Sexual intercourse and its