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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... ritual specialists who conducted exorcisms and funerals and pre- scribed the geomantic alignment of buildings . The foot soldiers , how- ever , were laymen . They relied upon a vast written and unwritten armory of spells , charms , and ...
... ritual specialists ( community priests , shamans ) must be community members , whereas “ bad ” or “ dangerous " ones ... ritual " techniques . " Quite the opposite : it was their ritual invulnerability that made them dangerous . Monks ...
... ritual . It was the symbolic form of a basic political fact . The fact that it was repeated makes it , like other rituals , more significant rather than less . It was a ritual of largesse and gratitude that sustained the relationship ...