As Sport
Cockfighting has long been associated with the Malay, even with the coming of Islam, is still continued in certain parts. The cockfight being of a religious character within Malayan sport from pre-colonial occupation and heavily influenced by animism where the shaman is seen to "recite and blow incantation to the birds for blessing and ‘charmed water’ sprinkled over them" where even as sport still "closely related to animistic tradition (Clifford cited Gullick, 1991)".
Chicken also have been mentioned in Hikayat Raja-raja Pasai, written in 1390.
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