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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... sorcery could never be ruled out when a child fell sick . Sorcerers would likely be persons who customarily dealt with the supernatural ( such as Buddhist monks or Taoist priests ) and who might reasonably be supposed to possess means ...
... sorcery statutes ? Although even in these cases " delusion " is brought in to debunk the efficacy of sorcery , the effect on the public was considered quite different from the mass " delusion " practiced by sectarian sorcerers on their ...
... sorcery . Why not scour the countryside for the rascals and then prosecute them openly ? The reason was the potential for panic , and here prudence overrode justice . The danger posed by sorcery had both a supernatural dimen- sion ( an ...