. The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese. Breath of Death. phase of delirium tremens when little demons are seenupon the wall and upon the bed, nodding, beckoning,jeering, threatening. The Breath of Death.—This is the deity they worshipas the noxious god during the masses for the comes as the harbinger of evil, and brings swiftdestruction on his wings. The Great Feast to Spirits.—The first of tlje Ming Demonolatry 459 emperors, who feared, from the n
. The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese. Breath of Death. phase of delirium tremens when little demons are seenupon the wall and upon the bed, nodding, beckoning,jeering, threatening. The Breath of Death.—This is the deity they worshipas the noxious god during the masses for the comes as the harbinger of evil, and brings swiftdestruction on his wings. The Great Feast to Spirits.—The first of tlje Ming Demonolatry 459 emperors, who feared, from the numbers of soldiers thatwere slain in battle, that there might be a hungry hordedespatched from Hades to hover as a war cloud over hisnewly-attained empire, ordered three feasts a year duringApril, August, and November to be ofifered by the. Feasting the Spirits. mandarins to these deceased warriors, and now it includesall penniless, orphan spirits. Sometimes the priests takea bowl of rice and throw it out grain by grain, and thisas food for the dwellers in Tartarus may be turned intoas much as the sands of the Ganges. The throats of thespirits are small like a hair, but by chanting Buddhist 460 The Dragon, I mage, and Demon, prayers they will be expanded. The picture represents a musical entertainment called f(xng yen k^eu, given to spirits, when the priests blow rice out of their mouths. On the thirtieth of the seventh moon, it is supposed
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