In more difficult cases an infatuated person has recourse
to powerful love magic (guna pengasih) incantations that resemble
other sorts of secret magic and that consist of a charm (serana)
and a spoken formula ( Mantra) - Typical charms are twin coconuts
or twin bananas, and even more effective are the saliva of a
snake, the tears of a chili, the oil from a coconut that has
been dragged around by a chili, or that from a coconut tree
under which a pregnant woman has sat. " The silken net
" ( Ijaring sutra), " the crawling serpent "
(i naga bilad), and the "constant weeping " (i tuntung
tanggis) are among the names of formulas used to obtain a difficult
girl. The desired person must be anointed inadvertently with
the above-mentioned charms after the corresponding magic formula
has been recited over them.
There are other ways to get a girl, such as the pengatiap, stealing
her thoughts through concentrated mental effort " (keneh);
thinking of the beloved at all times: when eating, putting food
aside for her, and on going to sleep calling her mentally until
she is made so unhappy and uncomfortable that she cannot work,
eat, or sleep until she is with the man who operates the magic.
I was told of a special magic way to obtain a girl for "
only one night," which is to remain throughout the night
looking intensely at the flame of a lamp made out of a new coconut,
freshly made oil, and a new wick, remembering the girl's face.
On the following day she will not be able to refuse the man.
A girl will also fall in love with a man who succeeds in feeding
her a sirih leaf (to chew with betel-nut) on which has been
inscribed an image of a Cintia, " the Unthinkable God,"
with enormously exaggerated sexual organs.
Besides these innocent and harmless procedures, there is a black
and evil sort of magic (pengiwa) when a man or a woman wants
to take revenge on a lover; to tie a hair of the victim to a
bird which is afterwards released will make the person lose
his mind. Another way to make a lover go insane is to make an
image of the person using something that belonged to him: a
piece of his underclothes, hair, nail-clippings, or earth from
his footprint, but with the head either at the place of the
sex or at the feet; the whole then inscribed with magic syllables
and a formula said over the image. Menstrual blood anointed
on the bead of a man infallibly destines him to be henpecked.
The love technique of the Balinese, is natural and simple;
kissing, as we understand it, as a self-sufficient act, is unknown
and the caress that substitutes for our mode of kissing consists
in bringing the faces close enough to catch each other's perfume
and feel the warmth of the skin, with slight movements of the
head (zigaras, diman) in the manner which has been wrongly called
by Europeans " rubbing noses." In general, the love
