A Javanese spirit invoked in a ritual using a creel-and-broom figure with a coconut-shell head, placed in a cemetery on Thursday evening amid burning incense and believed to answer questions about marriage and healing by gesture — a superstition Hurgronje notes survives in children’s games long after belief in it faded.
Source
The Achehnese, Vol. II, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.
A Javanese spirit invoked in a ritual using a creel-and-broom figure with a coconut-shell head, placed in a cemetery on Thursday evening amid burning incense and believed to answer questions about marriage and healing by gesture — a superstition Hurgronje notes survives in children’s games long after belief in it faded.
Source
The Achehnese, Vol. II, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.