The Artifact: Malaysian Spirit Boats
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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In this episode of STBYM’s The Artifact, Robert discusses a most nautical form of exorcism...
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| 0:33.6 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. |
| 0:38.8 | Hi, my name is Robert Lamb and this is the Art Effect, a short forum series from Stuff to Blow Your |
| 0:44.8 | Mind focusing in on particular objects, ideas and moments in time. |
| 0:49.6 | In the absence of modern medicine and sometimes in conjunction with it or in spite of it, |
| 0:58.8 | cultural practices around the world have long looked to supernatural causes of illness. |
| 1:04.4 | In some cases, the source of the illness is identified as an aferious witch or wizard, |
| 1:10.1 | but other times the culprit is seen as a demon or evil spirit. |
| 1:14.4 | Inevitably, such identifications come with means of driving the spirit away. |
| 1:18.5 | Perhaps it is exercised from the individual via the consumption of sacred substances, |
| 1:24.0 | locked out of homes with special rights or driven off into the bodies of beasts. |
| 1:29.5 | Or, you could send them away aboard sacred model boats. |
| 1:38.4 | This practice and vestiges of it can be found throughout southeast Asia with many variations |
| 1:46.2 | turning up in Malaysia. As outlined by Prince John Lohanstein in the journal Atropus in 1958, |
| 1:55.2 | Malaysian evil spirit boats, or Kapalhantu, were neither toys nor full-scale ships, |
| 2:02.1 | but sacred vessels of magical significance. |
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