CHAPTER VII.

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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