Ghost Belief Essay

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After all this enlightenment and modernization that has taken place, superstitious beliefs still persists in our societies especially ghost belief. For my opinion ,the reason of Malay still continue ghost belief is because their socio – cultural habits has already setting by their ancestor, some Malay villagers cannot accept the improvement of socio – economic development and also got a lot of evidence about experience of supernatural among Malay make them resolutely believe. In Malaysia we can discover still got a lot of villager still retain in their superstitious belief like bomoh, shaman and also some of their superstitious culture. Some of these superstitions and beliefs among the Malay is strong that they are almost customize by their ancestor. The Malay villagers have held fast to the belief in supernatural beings left in legacy by their past history and beliefs. In fact, Malay still likely to preserved their cultural from their ancestor so their tradition belief like ghost belief can be progress to future. Many fundamental beliefs and practices among the Malay peasantry , especially as manisfested in the public ritual officiated over by the pawang and in the folk cures of the bomoh, are based upon the belief in spirits.There are some specialist whose role in the Malay village milieu covers the area that involving magic practice, spirit belief and also curing disease by spell of bomoh. Beside that, the religious leaders sometimes will carry out religious ceremony which have been inherited from their ancestor to propitiate the spirit. The rituals and incantations meant to invoke , placate, or exorcize them as the occasion demands. Some spell practice, like sihir is forbidden it is regard as work of evil creatures such as syaitan or iblis but still got village specialist likely to practice it . Sihir , also we call it witchcraft will bring the

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