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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... statute . 15 Again , the " delusion " principle protects the Code from appearing to place credit in the reality of the socerers ' link to the spirit world . Sorcery under Statutes on Criminality Under the " Ceremonies " statutes ...
... statute seems to have been used to prosecute rather marginal cases — mostly unau- thorized possession of spells for medicinal purposes or personal pro- tection ; and in those , the statute generally was applied analogically rather than ...
... statute was used to prosecute a man who murdered someone to obtain his gall bladder for concocting a cure for leprosy . Documents on the case mention no biodynamic sorcery as such , though the statute seems quite apposite otherwise.21 ...