Container Reference (shelfmark): EAP1005/32 / Subject: Birth / Digitised Content: Yes (available) - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Container Reference (shelfmark) EAP1005/32 Subject Birth Digitised Content Yes (available)

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32/9
Title:: Body purification ritual, fortune telling, helping pregnant women
Scope & Content:: Prayers used by the shamans in a body purification ritual; instructions on fortune telling for illness; incantations to reduce the pain pregnant women suffer and help them give birth easily. 16 pages. Cham manuscript; no covers; written in Chinese ink on Chinese paper folded in half; Akhar Thr...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 16 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP1005/32/13
Title:: The work for shamans
Scope & Content:: Incantations, offering mantras, charms used by Gru Urang to perform several rituals such as relieving one of misfortunes upon entering an deteriorating year; making a lucky amulet, amulet for women who are about to give birth, amulet for pregnant women; incantations to make the naive one become ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Chamic
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 44 TIFF images

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