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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... magical remedies . Magic could quash magic , as shown by the doughty Hupei literatus who smote demons with The Classic of Changes . Indeed , premodern China ( and today's China to an extent we do not know ) was an arena in which ...
... magic when putting up structures . The timing , layout , and ritual order of construction were deemed essential to keeping evil influences out of the completed building . Of course , anyone capable of “ good ” magic is also capable of ...
... magic ) or mai - sha ( bury baleful magic ) . Sha meant the baleful spiritual emanations from corpses . Both expressions meant magic that spread death pollution . 45. SYT CL 33.9.17 ( Fuheng ) . 9. Political Crime and Bureaucratic ...