. 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. The Lily-boat (South China). The Bank of Hades—The priests sometimes givenotice by gongs and placards that they will despatch atreasure-boat to Hades; the old women all bring theirstrings of silvered paper to the boat, which is placed bythe canal, till it is full of its precious freight, when, afterthe amply-rewarded priests march around and chant, it is CD o C. 452 The Dragon, Image, and Demon, burnt; a cheque on th
. 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. The Lily-boat (South China). The Bank of Hades—The priests sometimes givenotice by gongs and placards that they will despatch atreasure-boat to Hades; the old women all bring theirstrings of silvered paper to the boat, which is placed bythe canal, till it is full of its precious freight, when, afterthe amply-rewarded priests march around and chant, it is CD o C. 452 The Dragon, Image, and Demon, burnt; a cheque on the Bank of Hades being handed toeach one who makes a deposit. Travelling in Hades—From the well-watered regionsurrounding Soochow a man takes a lily-boat to travelon the Grrand Canal of Tartarus, burning it as he startson his journey, not like the North American Indian, whoplaces his canoe on the mountain side. But in North China travelling is done almost entirelyby carts, whose axles turn under the body. These cartsare without springs, so that they go bump, bump, nowin a hole and then against a stone, over roads roughbeyond description. The departed soul is thought totravel by the same kind of conveyance in the spirit land,so the mourning family always sends by comhvbstion^which is the packet-post between the two worlds, a full-sized paper cart, with paper horses, and from twenty tofifty outriders and gangs of servants, so that the mancan make a princely entrance into the hill country ofHades. Headless Ghosts.—The views of the
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