. 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. Samaritan,—they all pass by on the other —Perhaps there is noother country where this terrible crimeis so alarmingly prevalent. The appealsfor help to foreigners in an interiorcity, from the friends of the dying,are frequent. It is often attemptedin a fit of passion. Eevenge is theobject sought, and when a man isdead he is in the position to avengehimself of all the injuries he mayhave thought himself t
. 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. Samaritan,—they all pass by on the other —Perhaps there is noother country where this terrible crimeis so alarmingly prevalent. The appealsfor help to foreigners in an interiorcity, from the friends of the dying,are frequent. It is often attemptedin a fit of passion. Eevenge is theobject sought, and when a man isdead he is in the position to avengehimself of all the injuries he mayhave thought himself the subject. So prevalent is the opinion that thedead have power over the living,that it is by no means an uncommontragedy for a person having an irre-concilable difficulty with another, to take his life in orderto place himself in a position to be avenged. Many ayoung woman, after a severe beating by her husband ormother-in-law, with a dose of opium goes into the otherworld that she may return and take revenge on heroppressors. In the examination hall the essay of aliterary man may be spoiled by the returning spirit ofa woman whose virtue he robbed, and who, on taking. A Pillar to TranquillizeDrowned Spirits. 454 ^^^^ Dragon, Image, and Demon, the fatal dose, expressed the wish that she might not betransmigrated but remain a suicidal ghost to haunt herdeceiver. Drowned Spirits—The souls of the drowned are sup-posed to remain under the water for three years, whenthey seize some other man, pull him into the water, andescape. Boatmen are in continual dread of these drowneddemons, and men sometimes at dusk suppose they seethem squatting beside the waters edge. Stone pillarsare erected on the unfortunate spots in order to controlthe souls of the drowned. Lunacy—Chinese physicians say that lunacy comesfrom the phlegm which seals up the orifices of the Taoists ascribe it to demons, and they are called in ;they require the lunatic to drink water with the ashes ofa cha
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