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Telling Stories - Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History (Hardcover)
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Telling Stories - Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History (Hardcover)
Series: Sinica Leidensia, 71
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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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