A rural community in Perak was carrying out an execution. Villagers tied up hands and feet of an ancient Malay dame, hooked her neck to the fork of a long pole with which she was gradually pushed into a river. Her cries and pleadings, were in vain. Executioners reported seeing a lizard crawling out of her nostril as she was drowning. That, they believed to be a "bajang" appearing in the form of a lizard. Hence, the executed is proven guilty for keeping an evil spirit that plagued their village with diseases.