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Telling Stories: Witchcraft And Scapegoating in Chinese History (Sinica Leidensia) (Sinica Leidensia)
Telling Stories Witchcraft And Scapegoating in Chinese History - Sinica Leidensia
Author: Barend J. ter Haar
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 h...  more »
ISBN-13: 9789004148444
ISBN-10: 9004148442
Publication Date: 12/1/2005
Pages: 392
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Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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