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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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and there she sits tossing her head backwards,from side to side, and rolling her eyes wildly as she rantsa jargon, partly inarticulate. ^ Many women in China at times fall into a trance followed by frenzy, and are consulted as spirit mediums or interpreters of the gods, whose mouthpiece they are supposed to become. ^ The familiar spirit takes possession of the medium at any moment and without invitation. • Almost every village has one or more spiritmediums, each having his or her familiar spirit. If spiritualism is good, China ought to be one of the most enlightened and holy of countries. But though spirit 45^ The Dragon, linagey and De^non mediums are so numerous, no practical wisdom has come from the other world through them. While they swarm in China, they fail, as in England and America, to convey any useful knowledge to mankind. 3. There are, outside the city, bad gods who deal with those possessed with devils. One of the most noted temples has twice within a century been demolished by
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Exorcising the Demon Fox. the officials. The forms that demonolatry assume are manifold. Catching Demons.—In the historical books there areaccounts of hogs crying, dragons fighting, stones talking, and of voices in the temples. At the sound of the wind, the rustling of the leaves, or the voice of the birds, the people think there are demons. They call the Taoists to burn the charms, brandish the swords, and call the gods to arrest the evil spirits, and sometimes the affluent Demonolatry. 457 ask Pope Chang to despatch a messenger to exorcise the demons. China the Land of Demons—The people believe that evil spirits flit hither and thither, so in front of the door there are protection walls to shield the living from the intrusion of the dead. The house walls are built high and the windows open in the courts only, so as to prevent the ingress of spirits; there are no straightpassages, for as spirits travel in bee-lines, in order to intercept their progress the passages are zigzag; and there is a s

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