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Updated: September 24, 2025
He smelt man, went to the door which he opened a little, enough to ascertain what this was, and he saw Batangnorang. Then he passed through it and said to the stranger: "How did you come here? What is your name?" "I come from the earth above. I am Batangnorang." He was afraid antoh would eat him, and Crocodile's sister being his mother he added timidly: "I have a mother.
He lost his parang, then, after a while, he stopped and took sticks to strike antoh with, but every time he struck the stick was wrested from him, and he had to take flight again. He ran up on a mountain and antoh, in close pursuit, caught up with him sitting on a fallen tree.
This chanced to be close to the place where Inyah was. They went ashore to make camp. Some of them went out to search for wood and met the babi, who attacked them, and they fled to their prahus. When Dirang, who was an antoh, saw his men on the run, he became very angry, went after the babi, and cut off its head.
These Katingans begin their year in June and July, when they cut the jungle in order to make ladangs, months being designated by numbers. At the beginning of the year all the families sacrifice fowls, eat the meat, and give the blood to antoh in accordance with their custom. After the harvest there is a similar function at which the same kind of dancing is performed as at the tiwah feast.
The Duhoi and the Katingans use the contrivance for curing disease, though not in the way we should expect, by carrying away the disorder, but by making a present of the prahu to a good antoh to facilitate his journey. The name of the flying prahu is menama, in. Katingan, melambong. The more or less wavy carvings of the edge represent the beach.
As with a person, so with a kapatong; nobody is permitted to step over it lest the good antoh which resides in it should become frightened and flee. Kapatongs are made from ironwood; they are of various kinds and serve many purposes. The smaller kapatongs are used for the protection of the living and all their earthly belongings or pursuits.
Among the aborigines of Borneo whom I visited, with the possible exception of the Punan nomads, the belief in evil spirits and in good ones that counteract them, both called antoh, is universal, and to some extent has been adopted by the Malays. Apprehension of evil being predominant in human minds, the word is enough to cause a shudder even to some Malays.
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