Jailangkung: Indonesian spirit-basket divination

• Main Author: CHAN, Margaret
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Indonesia; Jailangkung; Hantu; Mysticism; Séance; Spirit-basket; Archaeology of the everyday; International distribution of games; Asian Studies; Religion
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2834; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4091/viewcontent/oxfordhb_9780199935420_e_69.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Chinese spirit-basket divination, which dates to the fifth century, would have been lost to the world had it not been reincarnated as Indonesian jailangkung. The term is the homophonic rendition of the Chinese cai lan gong [菜篮公, vegetable basket deity] and unambiguously links the Indonesian practice...