 Many strange powers are attributed to this animal by the natives of the countries it inhabits ; there is hardly an event in life to man , woman or child , or even domestic animals , that may not be influenced for better or worse by the Slow Loris , alive or dead , or by any separate part of it , and apparently one cannot usually tell at the time , that one is under supernatural power . Thus a Malay may commit a crime he did not premeditate , and then find that an enemy had buried a particular part of a Loris under his threshold , which had , unknown to him , compelled him to act to his own disadvantage . ... [ a slow loris 's ] life is not a happy one , for it is continually seeing ghosts ; that is why it hides its face in its hands . 
