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Identifier: liondragoninnort00john (find matches)
Title: Lion and dragon in northern China
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir, 1874-1938
Subjects: Weihaiwei
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton and company
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living and the dead, orby manipulating little wands of bamboo or peach-wood,3 or by the use of a kind of planchette, professto be able to foretell the future4 or to answerquestions regarding the present and past, or to disclosewhere stolen property has been concealed and bywhom it has been taken. I have personally knownof a case in which a thief was captured by means ofthe indications given by a fortune-teller. His methodwas to take a small stick in each hand and point 1 See illustration. * See illustration. The Tie/t Kou is the Japanese Tengu. SeeTrans. As. Soc.Jap. Pt. ii (1908). * For the magic uses of peach-wood see De Groots Religious Systemof China, vol. iv. pp. 304 seq. 4 I see no race of men, however polished and educated, howeverbrutal and barbarous, which does not believe that warnings of futureevents are given, and may be understood and announced by certainpersons. Ciceros words, after the lapse of a couple of thousand,years, are still true. (See Cic. de Divmationc, i. I.)
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PROTECTIVE CHARMS USED IN WEIHAIWEI. P- 174) CHINESE SPIRITUALISM 175 them both in front of him, keeping his clenched handsclose to his sides. He then moved slowly round, andwhen the sticks were pointing in the direction thethief had gone the points came together.1 No doubtthere is as much make-believe and quackery aboutthese mysterious doings as there is in the similarpractices of many so-called mediums in the West;but I am unwilling to believe that M there is nothingin it. Some day, let us hope, the spiritualism ofChina will be thoroughly studied by scientific inves-tigators, and it will be surprising if the results do notform a most valuable addition to the material collectedby the European and American societies for psychicalresearch.2 1 A very similar method of divining is practised in the Malay States.See Svvettenhams Malay Sketches, pp. 201-7, and Skeats MalayMagic, p. 542. The following remarks in Dennyss Folk-lore of China (pp. 56seq.) will be of interest to those who are wis

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