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Identifier: yankeeonyangtzeb00geil (find matches)
Title: A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Geil, William Edgar, 1865-1925
Subjects: China -- Description and travel Yangtze River (China)
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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A NATION OF SPIRITUALISTS 179 of sand, his confederate reading the hieroglyphics andreducing them to legible writing. The people ofChowtung are mostly spiritualists, and enquire of thedead on a multitude of occasions, for which purposethe Magic Pen is largely in demand. Indeed, to theChinese the whole country is filled with spirits of thedeparted. There is but the thinnest partition, a sheetof paper as the people say, between the living and thedead. The spirits of the defunct are more powerfulthan the living, and their influence is felt in all depart-ments of life. The creaking of houseboards, the squeak-ing of rats, the singing of the kettle, the sputteringof boiling rice or the rustling of the leaves in the windare all manifestations of the spirit world. All painand even the smallest misfortunes are attributed tomalign forces. It is a common sight among all classesof people to see one of the women of the householdengaged in the following mummery with a basin ofwater and three chop-s

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