Kala (Malay charms)

Destructive manifestation associated with Batara Guru in Malay charms. Skeat associates Kala with dangerous boundaries between settled land and forest, and between sea and shore.

Relations

• identified in account: Batara Guru

Sources

• Walter W. Skeat, Malay Magic (1900), pp.85–96: greater gods, sea-spirit family and black/white genii