Keeping a keris for protection - Ethnographic Arms & Armour

1st January 2008, 09:19 PM	#11
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 7,019	The very few people whom I have known to engage in using incense on a keris have done this on Thursday evening. The incense used is menyan (kemenyan), which is from gum benzoin, from the styrax tree. It is used by placing a small lump on top of coals in a small charcoal brazier made of terracotta.

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