CHAPTER VII

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GHOSTS, APPARITIONS, AND SUPERNATURAL BEINGS.

Prominent Part played by Ghosts on the Chinese Stage—The False Ghost at Chinkeang—Chinese Terms for Ghosts; Their Shapeless Form—Candles Burning Green in the Presence of Ghosts—Apparition at Shanghai—The Ghost from the S. S. Fusing—The Foochow Gun-boat Ghost—Ghosts of Suicides and of Women who Die in Child-bed—Ghosts of Murdered People—Haunted Houses—Sanding Floors to Detect Ghostly Visitants—Intelligence of Ghosts—Pauper Ghosts—The Shen of Offence—The Ghost in a Chinese Farce—Idol Ghosts—Ghosts Permitted to Revisit the Earth—Charms against Malevolent Ghosts—Animal Ghosts, pp. 71–79.

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