Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768Harvard University Press, 1990 - 299 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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... hair symbolizes some kind of metaphysical abstraction - fer- tility , soul - stuff , personal power . " 29 Evidence from Punjabi culture shows that hair is used as an implement in sorcery precisely because it absorbs and stores ...
... hair = unrestrained sexuality ; short hair or partially shaved head or tightly bound hair = restricted sexuality ; close shaven head = celibacy . " Leach makes the point even more apposite by citing the psychiatrist Charles Berg on the ...
... hair is a visible symbolic displacement of the invisible genitals . " " Magical Hair , " 153. See also Chapter 3 , note 14 . 29. Leach , " Magical Hair , ” 160 . 30. Paul Hershman , " Hair , Sex , and Dirt , " Man 9 ( 1974 ) : 277 , 289 ...