• Jerita tuai  --stories of ancient times, myths and  legends (358 titles).
  
  
• Tusut  --genealogy, family tree (23 titles).
  
  
• Sampi  --1) prayer which may comprise a few words  said to acknowledge an omen, or a poem lasting an hour or more; 2) oratory,  rhetoric (approx. 50 titles).
  
  
• Pengap  --Invocation to deities sung at major  rites (78 titles).
  
  
• Timang  --Songs of praise; invocation poem (20  titles).
  
  
• Ensera  --Epics or sagas sung in poetic language  with explanations and conversations in  prose; any tale told partly in poetic form  as opp. to simple prose tale (99 titles).
  
  
• Renong  --1)  narrative sung to embolden men going  to  war; 2) song of entertainment sung at  the  commencement of a long  journey, bejalai (17  titles).
  
  
• Pantun --1)  (pantun jako) adage, saying, parable,  simile; 2) impromptu song for  entertainment  (17 titles).
  
  
• Sabak  --Poem of lament for the dead or  lamentation  for the dead (6 titles).
  
  
• Biau  --ceremonial waving of a fowl (usually a   cockerel) over the heads of guests etc  accompanied by recitation of a sampi.  See  also sampi (6 titles).
  
  
• Ramban  --love song in poetic from (1 title).
  
  
• Pelian  --general term for rites for the sick or  healing rituals for the sick performed by  a manang (shaman) (41 titles).
  
  
• Entelah  --word puzzle; riddle (1 title).
  
  
• Sugi  --epics associated with deities (10 titles).
  
  
• Pengarap tuai  --traditional belief system (32  titles).

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