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Title: 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
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: DuBose, Hampden C
Subjects: Taoism Buddhism Confucianism
Publisher: New York, A. C. Armstrong & son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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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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that all the spirits in prison, all the devils in hell, areturned loose; countless myriads coming as swarms oflocusts from the unseen abyss, black, hungry, andnaked, whose motto is Your money or your life. Infront of every door piles of paper-tinsel are burned,and it is estimated that at one temple at Hangchow Demonolatry. 461 during two weeks fifteen hundred dollars daily are ex-pended in paper sycee. On this dread night there isThe Devils Procession.—Mara, the god of lust, sin,and death, comes in two ways,—to frighten and to deceive.The goddess of mercy, pitying the devils in Hades,wished to visit them and bestow her gracious favours uponthem, but fearing lest these, so long accustomed to sin,might on seeing her beautiful face have depraved inclina-tions, and so increase their guilt, she was metamorphosedinto the devil king,—also called the burnt-faced devilking,— so that none would love, but all would fear. Marahas a green complexion, long tusks, and a frightful face ;his p

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