Keeping a keris for protection - Ethnographic Arms & Armour

7th January 2008, 12:13 AM

#32

David

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Join Date: Aug 2006

Location: Nova Scotia

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Pusaka

Personally I think a keris is and can be thought of as a Jimat.

http://drgrotte.com/BalineseMedicine...ntraforAmulets

"Because the jimats is created and consecrated specifically for one individual it can never be transferred to another"
In this respect at least i would have to say that a jimat is the polar opposite of a keris.

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