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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... fear . 53 In Chinese popular religion , the pervasive fear of aliens is expressed in the serious ritual business of propitiating “ ghosts ” ( kuei ) . These are conceived as unattached spirits who lack the family ties that would ...
... fear naturally attaches to aliens , or that sorcery accusations within the community would be so harmful to social relations that they cannot be permitted - or perhaps even conceived of . Hence it is upon the stranger that sus- picion ...
... fear , both of which involve the fragility of a spiritual - corporeal link . The popular fear was of soul - loss : the delicacy of the bond between soul and body meant that agencies either natural or super- natural could sever it ...