About three years back, I came across a book at the library entitled Venomous and Poisonous Animals and Noxious Plants of the Pacific Region, edited by Hugh L. Keegan and W.V. MacFarlane (MacMillan & Co, NY 1963). Always interested in things like this, I checked it out. I was surprised to find that it gave local names to a number of the venomous snakes in the Indo-Malay area. While these don't have much to do with Silat, these are names that are largely unavailable in the common Indonesian and Malayan dictionaries, so I copied them down. I just came across the paper, which was dying, and decided to make the information available here. So, without further ado:
Common cobra: ular sendok (Indonesia); ular tedong sendak (Malay); ular bedul (Malay); ular biludah (Padang Highlands, Sumatra); oraj sendok (Sundanese); hantipeh pura (Dayak).
King cobra: ular anang (Java).
Yellow-headed krait: ular tanjon api (Sumatra).
Banded krait: oraj welang (Sundanese); ular welang (Malay); ular katam tabu (Malay); ngu sam liem (Thai).
Malayan krait: oraj weling (Sundanese); ular weling (Malay).
Malayan pit viper: ular biludak (Java); ular tanah (West Java); ular gebuk (West Java); ular bandotan bedor (Central Java); ular bedudak (West Java); ular lemah (West Java); ular kapac daun (Malay).
Sumatran pit viper: ular bisa (Sumatra).
Wagler's pit viper: ular puckuk (Sumatra); ular bakaw (Malay).
Common long-glanded snake: ular cabe (Java); ular kapala dua (Sumatra); ular cabeh (Malay).
Red-bellied long-glanded snake: oraj cabeh (Java); ular cabeh (Malay); ular sina matahari (Malay); ular tedong matahari (Singapore); kendawang (Dayak).
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