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Telling Stories: Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History

Telling Stories: Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History

Ter Haar, Barend

Hardcover

OccultAnthropologyChinese History

ISBN10: 9004148442
ISBN13: 9789004148444
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 30 2005
Pages: 382
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.53 Depth: 9.64
Language: English
This book analyzes the role of oral stories in Chinese witch-hunts. Successive chapters deal with the implications of Chinese versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story; the use of parts of the adult human body, children and foetuses, to draw out their life-force; attacks by mysterious creatures, causing open wounds, suffocation, the loss of hair and the like; the presence of a Drought Demon in the corpses of recently deceased women; and finally the emperor forcibly recruiting unmarried women for his harem. Of interest to historians and anthropologists working on oral traditions, folklore and witch-hunts (also from a comparative perspective), but also to those working on anti-Christian movements and the intersection of popular fears and political history in China.

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