THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Saturday, SEPTEMBER 8, 1938.
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SUPERSTITIOUS MAGIC AMONGST THE CHINESE
A STRANGE survival from
the past is the belief in magic. It prevails to a certain degree in almost every country, regardless of the advance of learning and the progress of natural science.
BY
T. PAUL
GREGORY
even them.
the
If you have been frightened by a pig, then may It enter the pig- sly.
If you have been frightened by an
ox, may il enter ita bam And my little child come back into
mother's room agalu” *
от
In conclusion, one might mention The East, of course, is where it is
general incantatory formula caltea encountered in its most flourishing
bel-faan
in- "expelling evil. state; for here magle has not been
thuences" which regarded as Bort as solely a diabolicul art. regarded
of You can arrange to step ashore but rather as an accomplishment to
panacea or universal remedy for sudden illnessen. The procedure is at home and drive away in your be highly
and respected
simplietly itself and consists of open- Fortunately, however, own Vauxhall.
Thus the sorcerer is
18 Chinese are a most praclient race, ing the ordinary Chinese almanac at Important personage amongst and there has been devised means random and fanning the patient with We assist you in this connection my Oriental people: for his know of exorcising or expelling these de- the volume and chanting the follow- without any trouble or complica-
ledge of ceremonial magic embraces mo
mons which make the ills of child- ing words: exorcising the
of ΟΙ evil spirits hood such a problem to parents 25 to the lite QF these strange
venerated.
tion to yourself. .delivered and the cure of disease by means of well as sheer misery
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[ people, and conscu bulit up. In fact, quarters of the Island which
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"Fet-lui-faan Chong-lol-Jaan
Ching-san ch'ank-kau-faan Ch'ut-tsa vep-ve faan Kaal-tant to-mei faan
Kap-jaan maan-juan Tung-feng-fean
to you at home and subsequently incantations and charms. It is in victims. One in Hongkong.
Chin, however, where superstitious methods of conjuring away deraons bellets
have always formed from their abode in the body portion of the folklore of the common a
child, ta ocensionally seen a sort of oc performed in the streets of those cule system practically every village boasts of more or less exclusively occupied by ita naam-mo-slu-shaang or exorciser Chinese. This is the method of as well as its aheng-p'ol or sorceress exercising for the cure of chlidish who can be hired for a fee to exhibit fright or haam-keng as it is known their maglent powers in various ways, in the Cantonese vernacular. In either to consult
with
dead or thin the else 10 conjure
10
away evil one pass, it fired sorceress follows:
woman, periiaps, a Phone 27778/9. spirila. It is the latter function or a relative of the family, will take it in most de the child's clothes Into the street
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1038,
- LORD RUNCIMAN,
PEACE-MAKER
incidentally
mand; for
masses, there 19 a firm
the literate and will strike them against the kerb, bellef uttering as she does so the following
incantation:
in the existence of demons, and that the different orders of these spirits preside over the powers of nature. Consequently, every disease to which Besh is heir is alleged to be the result of some particular demon which hus chosen to make the body of the sufferer its abode. Furthermore, à is alleged that demdninent possession is an extremely common occurrence, and puzzling illnesses are often thus explained. The Chinese claim, more- over, that the earth, air, and water are the abode of a formidable body of spectral creatures.
for
car
ir
one
of the
"A-zo *lol-kui Ioh Chue keng ngan keng Maau-yl io-sluue keng A-som-keng
Sheung-ko lak-tai keng Kaat-tau hong-met keng A-so a-a-a!
Nei t'ung-nin loi-kui foh Saam-wan ta'at-wan lel-kui loh” "Baby come back!
If you have been frightened by a
pig or an ox
A cat or a rat-
Baby don't be afraid any longer
Jow
If you have been frightened from going up high and coming down
Or of the spectres at the heads streets or the end of lones O, baby!
Como back now.
May your three spiritual and seven
animal |"souls return"
Naam-fong-faan Sai-fong-faan Pak-feng-Jaan Set-fong-faan-shan Ch'uk-hef, ch'ik-hel"
This may be freely translated
"Evit spirits that fly hero to trouble
You
Demons that wander about Ghosts from newly-crecled build- Ings and from the pulling down of old structures Evil spirits of the
morning.
spirits of the evening
evit
Unclean spectre at the ends of
strects and the enda of roads Precipitate and stilful creatures
of evil
Eastern demons
Southern devils
Western impa
Northern ghosts
Evil spirits from all directions
Disperse quickly! Disperse quickly!"
uttering
Aller
this
stereotyped
the almanac is turned phin and placed before the household shrine of the Tei-chue or "God of the Sell", implying that the exorciser is seeking its protection. After all this has been done, it is believed that the evil influence causing the illness will depart and the patient will then recover,
Loi-kui is the Tung-kwoon dia- as lectical pronunciation of the Canton-
ese foi-kivai,
MR. PEPYS in
HONGKONG
25th. August-Busy all the morn-this system, the air, even
50
did
It cool,
bec
the
make
મ
ing about my papers, though I doe seeming to lack all like and fresh- ness. Being come to Sheung Shul And time to order some two tons of
to my wee do halt at the Customs barre cow-dung to bee delivered garden upon Saturday. For it seems while I visit rome property I doc It may be a little early to 1 HORRID AND LOATHSOME
own there and on my return to the best to mes to trench every bed and congratulate anyone, but it does and loathsome; for they are the dis- Some of these are especially horrid
cover in again than to make a large coach I find Mr. Mack hath opened pit and rot it there and then top-the boot and poured out flaggons
doc dress the ground. For I doubt strong waters, one of which appear that, in the current embodied spirits-the unhappy ghost. of suicides, or of drowned persons-
lies would breed. Bui Lord 1 quaff very gratefully. Later on wee not flies
go down the new read and the im- German - Czecho - Slovakian dis- which roam about during the silent
tear my garden is more like to suffer
it is from lack of water than Inck of
provement in its surface hours of night and create terror In
fertilizatioun. To
And I would that the Office To the Clubbe for my' pute, Great Britain's diplomacy the minds of those susceptible persons
nuncheon where in talk with Mr. of Works would doe as good and as who are forced to be abroad during has scored a triumph. It is those witching hours from the third
Povy, he tells mee hee is sorry the speedy a piece of work upon my
I where
learned but to-day to the fourth watch
011
water restrictions were not put on a house, personal victory for Lord Run-
p.m. to 3
It may be remarked in passing that month since, seeing that they dee irk the hot water cistern did burst in came when save-yard quake and this ceremony is generally carried out few people and save much. But my drying room. But of that anon. eiman, however, that capable cemeteries yawn. These mysterious by those Chinese women who are things indeed grow serious and i doc Being corne to toe le into Chinese mediator who has handled the shades are alleged to glide along near Slick-lung in the district of Tung-
speetres from the region the natives of the territory adjacent to pray most heartily for a wet Septem-t doe make bold to walk
This night I did bowl in the territory seeing that I did carry no highly explosive Czech and the base of wails, and consequently, woon; but as the Chinese popula- Alleys but very ill, and I believe my offensive weapon, save it may
many people finve a
superstitious Sudeten German feelings like, dread of walking too close to these every section of Kwangtung as well enough. Home thereafter in
tion of the Colony halls from almost hand and wrist are not yet strong Lucky Strike cigarillo, and did con-
with Mr. verse in fluent Cantonese an experienced miner handles en
structures at night, and it they hap- as from other parts of the hinterland,
Bruno's coach and did dine at home Customs officer, asking him if pen to do 50,
country folk did still smuggle sugar will even go
and so to bed. 60 the interested foreigner may observe his dynamite, firmly, fearlessly far as to spit in that direction; all types of curious practices in
26th.
h-Up very betimes and to my into China and tabacco out of it. "BAND LIGHT INSTRUMENTAL”
for there is curious notion vogue amongst the
office. In the newes sheetes there is But of the master I could gain no but with the certain knowledge that
masses of the
did after- should
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of new import, save that the clear Informatious and a wall at night the ejected
salvage of the last air-shippe pro-wards come to see that hee did sup- Massed Bands of the Aldershot and Eastern Commands conducted by of the destructive force of his
Gallen will be sufficient to injure CURING CHILDHOOD TERRORS ceeds and some bodies found. But pose I was asking him if he could |material. The Czech statesmen, whatever demoniacal being which
Lord! what a chorus of blame arises give me different kind of cigarillo Another curious method of in- from all the world, the attack being and a light for it. So 1 M. Edouard Benes, the Prey be lurking there, and thus re dividual exorcism, and incidentally discommended on all sides. But 1
to our ប្រុស vent its wreaking bann
territory where also practiced for the cure of child-
my way back 13 8756⚫sident, and Dr. Milan Hodza, the passer-by.
am minded the attackers had been once more doe find Mr. Mack pro- hood terrors, is that onc found In addition to the kwai, which may
wiser to stand by the position that during flaggons from the boot. So Prime Minister, have acted be translated as signifying anything among natives of the Chung-shin it was their right so to doe, (and home, though on
on two occasions
occasions there from devil to ghost, the Chinese district. Tals is known g
indeed it may bee there being naught was an alarm that the boot had praise-worthy parts, and, at the believe in a whole class of demons it is performed by placing alum on than to prate of mistaking it for a in the end, and 1 am not but the
chuc-tsal or
or "barbecuing
the pig" forbid in War in these sorry times)
worked nes) { wo open, and so indeed it did last moment, it is obvious that which they for want of a better name the, coals of a briskly burning fung-lo hostile air-shippe. Later on I am Hongkong until after eight of the
term faan. These arc properly
"earthenware chatty the Sudeten leaders are more clean spirits par excellence, and amly Sing it at a safe distance, Roof Garden where wee
and then
luto am asham- bidden to take my nancheon with clock. And it is ao the ones which take inclined to compromise, with light in being in the vicinity of the y
party the child around the Mistress Louisa and her Lord at theed to go to my cocktail
are mighty so driv
so drive home to
sing the cam CHATER ROAD. honour, than to revelt, without ving. Houses are often said to be the resultant cloud of acrid smoke, victual, being minded that Chinese chutt straining his wrist in writ be pass it quickly le and fro through merry but I doc eat a steak to my age to my clothes in the drying- their abode, and when their presence all the while chanting the following chow is too rich for me in the sum-Are
with pleasant vision of Mr. EXEKONANIUKINK COMERULAYANDEXISTENwww.ves good excuse. Taking the is discovered, then the house becomes invocation:
But la-cha
insurance. situation as a whole, both sides aimculty
"haunted" an
mer. So back to
my and a real
my office and ing cheques
when doo examine
amine them I arises in finding a ugh to risk
after, home. And I doe believe Lord!
so much amiss that I latterly have acted with com- tenant who is daring enough to
never to have spent such a quiet and
and naught so mendable forebearance and dis-of ghostly encounters with some ap- nightly visitations and the possibility
time where there is so little of inter-can in common honesty claim upon, and so I doc suppose T shall pay my I may set down here. 27th.
thThis day Mistress
premiums without claiming ought cipline: and both sides have Moreover, these evil influences like parition from the nether world.
Lord and another lady doe done these eighteenl But lest I doc more years, even as I have shown an inclination for honest the cacodacmones of
fong eat their nuncheon with mee and done the ancient Greeks are supposed to let the dealing, and a readiness to ad- human body with sickness and dls- mit mistakes in conduct and in Children are alleged to be especially orders of n dangerous character.
argument. It is never impos- susceptible to the malign ministra- tlons of these baleful beings, and sible to settle disputes of this almost every childish complaint from sort if
rather
colle is than fright to emotion is given the reins.
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de-
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It is feared, in some quarters, threat of an overwhelmingly that the policy of appeasement powerful association of nations which Great Britain has en- behind Czecho-Slovakia has deavoured to bring into opera-diluted the Sudeten determina- tion in the Sudeten case, may tion to resist all compromise; but it is only fair to remember be no more than a temporary relief.
that, in response to the appeal Even so, the postpone- ment of a life or death crisis of Lord Runciman, Herr Konrad always leaves room for hope Henlein himself has gone to that an ultimate settlement will Berlin to advise Herr Adolf be amicably reached. If the Hitler of the British mediator's renewed optimism of European plea for further negotiation, the capitals has real foundation, preservation of calm and the then diplomacy has in some
introduction of good-will into all deliberations. measure redeemed its reputa-
It may be stretching the imagination tion. Surely, then, the next
littlo to say that this was the step in the Sudeten-Czech quar.
effect of Lord Rünciman's ap- rel is a series of negotiations, possibly culminating in a hear-peal, but that is the interpreta-
ሲ
tion that appears to fit best the ing of the whole case before
form of the latest despatches some international arbitration
from Berlin. Prague and Lon- tribunal where fair-dealing and
don. Lord Runciman, perhaps, an unblused judgment are as- sured. How much saner is such of Europe, but has reprieved the has saved not only the sanity In solution than the old, bloody,world from a dreadful, whole- filthy, hateful remedy of war.sale execution of millions by the
It is possibly true that the butchers of Mars.
Taam chuc-sat
Taam taai koli
Lot t'eng that
Chuc-tsal yap chuc-laan Ngau-tsai pap ngau-laan Sal-man-tsal yap a-ma
kaan"
"Barbecuing a little pig Barbeculog a big one Come hack (0, child) so that you may be useful (to your parents when you grow up)
est which I
and
Her
Louisa
for
F
and
after by her motor coach to Sheung cause a boom in Union shares I doc Shut. But first wee doe go to their give notice I shall retire in 1943 if chambers in the Hotel, and I find
doe last so longt that in the sleeping appartement is 28th, Lord's Day-Very heavy rain all night, upon the Peake at all events and I deo thank Heaven for at a half after two of the clock I do it. By noon it clears somewhat and walk over
to High West and up to the summit where I doe sit reading
set a machine for the air-condition ing of the place and so it is always mighty cool. But I for one love not
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
"Mother won't forgive us for eloping—to `she's coming to live with wet"
for a space and after scramble down but Lord! I did slip and stumble after the rain. By
By the time I am down I am parched with thirst and so across to Mr. Franklin's house for a bow! of syllabub made with lim- mons, and so home and to a hot bath. Wrote afterwards, then dined with my Children and so to bed.
20th
-Writing at length
my wife, poor wretch, who hath much ado with the children, the weather in Devonshire being very bad. Busy at my office and after did drive home with Mr. A. Jay to his house and there played with the dogge Martin, who grows opace. But we did talk of the situation in Europe which scams mighty grave.
to
30th-Busy with my broker this day, and dee scttle matters, if so bee this talk of war doth not disorder everything. Comes Mr. A. Jay to eat his nuncheon with mee in the Clubbe and says heo belloves that at the latter end all will bee well and that
a show of strength, now' may. save much trouble later on. And I believe hee hath the right of it and um much comforted. Bowled in the Alleys, pretty well after a bad start Home but my wrist is too weak. and dined with the Children.
31st-This day I did goo to the King's Picture House, a thing I have not done before this year. With mee to the 7.15 house do take my Chil- dren
And
wee doe much enjoy the Colour Silly Symphonies of Mr. W.
oy of which they show four or But Lord) what a poor silly play is the after ploco and an insult to Mr. E. Wallace's name. Home by motor- coach and we dined not until nigh upon ten of the clock upon eggs and bacon, and so to bed..