Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768Harvard University Press, 1990年1月1日 - 317 頁 Midway through the reign of the Ch’ien-lung emperor, Hungli, in the most prosperous period of China’s last imperial dynasty, mass hysteria broke out among the common people. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land, clipping off the ends of men’s queues (the braids worn by royal decree), and chanting magical incantations over them in order to steal the souls of their owners. In a fascinating chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers that ensued, Philip Kuhn provides an intimate glimpse into the world of eighteenth-century China. |
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... evil.34 The use of charms and amulets to " ward off evil " ( pi - hsieh ) was universal . Much of this protective activity was directed at vengeful ghosts ( kuei ) , which proceeded from the yang aspect of the soul : spirits of the dead ...
... evil arts " were at issue . Although their normal community functions were such benign prac- tices as healing - exorcism , their demonic role in fiction suggests that magical arts were considered to be turned readily to evil uses . 49 ...
... ( evil spirits ) , 86 hsieh - shu , see Evil arts hsing ( torture ; punishment ) , 174 hsing - ch'iu ( seeking [ information ] by physical torture ) , 143 , 174-179 , 181 , 260n32 . See also Torture hsing - lü ( statutes on criminality ...