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the disembodied souls of quondam inhabi- tants of the earth may be brought en rapport with the living through means of the mesnieric trance.

Thus we find that certain individuals, possessing peculiar susceptibility to the influx of ideas or promptings from the spirit world, are tempted by either gain or curiosity to hold a seance for the benefit of those who would like to receive messages from the departed. These clairvoyants, or mediums, to employ the

more general term, have of course abounded in every age, and have, on account of undoubted psychical JODEDESEOS power, won immense follow-

ings and prestige.

The

Some have been seers, like the witch of Endor who materialised

Hongkong Telegraph.Samuel for the benefit of Saul,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1938

ROCKY ROAD TO

REVOLUTION

By T. Paul Gregory

IN CHINA

A translation is given in verse, but he has been fortunate in in- tervewing a number of Chinese although whilst it is very free women who had been present on it is yet rather accurate in one of these occasions, and who substance: havo kindly supplied him with most of the facts.

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Here

"Ye sisters three-ye ladies four, O! lead me to Hades' door! What would ve do in Indes?

Sprat:!

My kindred seek, one word in say Then quely tend me back,

humbly pray."

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After the arrival of sheng-p'oh, or medium, at the house where she is to hold the is she pre-arranged seance, escorted by the feminine portion of the family to his ritualistic incantation. Is cach thrice repeated. At some quiet back room. whilst others have been mere and who for a fee will act as a table and, some low stools repetition, the medium seems to medium for the imparting of it- have been provided. Upon the go more and more into the in- mediums, like the pythia of the telligence from the dead to the table there is sometimes placed fluence of a trance. As soon as Dephian oracle, who were able living. In the West, spiritualis the seng-chan, or portrait of the the words have died from her to advise questioners on the tie mediums may be of either person with whom it is desired to lips the last time, a

her. Her body sex, but in China, the majority communicate. Near the stool comes over

fession are elderly women. of those engaging in this pro where the medium is to sit is straightens, her limbs relax, placed a small basin containing and a cold clammy sweat streams

course of future events.

It is such mediums as the lat ter who have been sought after by the Chinese; for the Chinese

tremor

There is an odd similarity

Whilst they may be met with rice. Candles are lighted, and from her face and temples. She everywhere in this ancient land, ten-po or imitation paper money appears to the beholders to be as between the two most bitterly mind, as a general rule, is deep- it is said that those who come is burnt. Likewise, a part of the a person dead, save for convul- opposed political systems of this concerned with the belief that from Kwangtung in the South procedure requires that a num- sive trembling of her lips, which peradventure, a prescience of the are the most proficient. In the ber of paper charms called pi-chi, now and again dribble saliva. Communism, jage,

the future ming be of incalculable Cantonese 1134

vernacular,

She is now said to be en these (paper cut-out somewhat in the

Russians know it, and Fascism, value.

mediums are termed sheng-p'oh, shape of a Chinese robe) should

and her clients may now inter- literally "sorceress" or "witch." be burnt as an offering to the rapport with the spirit world, as preached in Italy and other

Consequently we find that the Sometimes, too, they are called spirits,

rogate her. Her answers are totalitarian states. Each has people are deeply interested in sin-p'oh, which means "fairy As mentioned above, no man given in a high unnatural voice, sprung from revolution, has the iden that an individual's women,'

"although it must be can be present, and there is also which at times shrieks with progressed, or evolved, through luck or

said that the former expression a singular rule observed that no crescendo force. may is by far the most usual. It copy of any of the Chinese "What do you see?" she may similar stages; and each has ex-somehow or other he dependent may be interesting to mention Classics, especially that portion be asked. perienced the blood and suffer-upon the whims of his departed that whilst almost every Can- of the Confucian Canon known tonese sheng-p'oh is reputed to as the "Great Learning" must be ing and terror and bestiality ancestors.

be a medium of considerable left lying about in the room. ability, it is these, who bail Indeed, it is stated that should from the countryside around any of these precautions be

which are the hand-maidens of revolution. But the remarkable

thing about these two systems

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"Nothing, nothing! It is so dark. I can't see anything," is the reply.

"Now what do you see?"

To the Chinese, the stability of Shek-lung in the district of neglected, the medium will de-

"It is a little lighter now. family ties is so marked that Tung-kwoon who are considered clare that the spirits are not of government is that, though

even death is not considered a by the Cantonese themselves to en rapport and will refuse to go Ai-, yes, I can see much better now. Yes! yes! I see houses- their aims have been always separation;-for-the-spirits of the be super-eminent_in_their_pro- on with the geance. When every- very different, they seem to departed

dwelling in the

thing has been finally declared many, manyerere.1" have arrived at much the same shadowy realm of Yam-kaan or

ready, the aheng-p'oh ascertains "Do you see any people?" from the onlookers their desires point, at least at this time. It Hades are continually watching

"No not yet. Ai-ya-yes, I see them. is, perhaps, because they have over the welfare and interests of LET us assume that a certain and the complete facts regarding

family desires to consult one the nature of the difficulty yes! I do now. travelled the same ugly road. all their descendants upon the of its members who has crossed under which the family labours, They look so thin and sallow Ah, one is approach- He carth. Hence, if a family should the great divide. must, together with the additional looking. The Russian revolution wasbe in great mental distress however, be dead at least one data as to the name, sex, datca ing me. to have freed the serfs of that through the illness of one of its munication can take place with as she has learned all these le is the one you seek.

hundred days before any com- of birth and death, etc. As soon Ai-pa-a-a! I recognise him. great country, down-trodden, members, or should profess a de- his spirit; for the Chinese affirm particulars, she crouches on one the hand of the medium GALERIA LA VEZAVEZ Still-used. imprisoned, butchered sire to know whether an intend that the soul takes this length of the stools and humps up her stretches forth, and grasping a on occasion by the servants of ed marriage is advisable, or of time to reach the domain of back in such a way that her face handful of rice casts it in the

government. Twenty-one should seek to discover whether Yama, the king of the under- rests upon her knees. In this direction of the interlocutor). years after the upheaval, when the chosen burial spot of some

world. men and women turned to mur-relative is propitious, or in- der to win themselves an ideal deed, upon any other of the

myriad subjects which state, one is struck by the in-the daily life of the people, must be women; for the Can-

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Have they won free- The Chinese

are, however, dom? The recent Russian elec-pre-eminently a practical people, tions provide the answer. They and consultations with the de were nothing short of farcical. parted are not accomplished so In all of Russia there were only easily. Consequently, there exist, two constituencies where there as in other lands, individuals more than one candidate. who are able to enter into com- Who would dare to oppose Stalinmunication with the spirit world, and the steam-roller machine which crushes with gressors and the transportation such discrimination?

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An important factor, is that those who seek the required in formation of the deceased spirit

tonese shong-p'oh refuse to hold of the male sex. a seance in the presence of any Consequently,

it has been exceedingly difficult for the writer to obtain first- hand information on the subject;

uncomfortable posture, she com- mences to chant the following words in the modulated sem- blance of a prayer:

"Saam-kwoo-tie, sz-kwoo-neung,* Ts'ing nei yan njoh to Yam-fong! Yap-to Yam-fony, pan hok-sz pri

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THE identity of the one

tablished, the sheng-p'oh is now in a position to answer all manner of questions regarding the deceased spirit, which now begins to converse with the members of its former family

the

agency of the

lot? Ts'am-sok nyok ta'un-yan-▬▬▬▬ Ta'am ngoh ts'an-pan kong kul-we

chnen-lol Sung ngoh is'nk-ts'uk tso_wann- through medium.

At length, after the curiosity of the family has been gratifled, the seance may be declared over. The medium is roused from her trance, by having her name shouted three times in her ear, and she goes through all the rigmarole of rythmic convul- sions. Each limb seems to gradually recover its sensibility, and at length she sits up rub- bing her eyes and yawning as if waking from a deep sleep.

From the Office Butts

A certain local golfer has such

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The accordian is said to be an

10 Siberia of countless thou- a fine opinion of himself that its casy instrument to play. We "Russians," observes Tinn, Rands of unfortunates who were stymie was called the bogey thought it had too many ins and

louts. "still have their mail tampered guilty of no more than a natural man.

Π O with. their telephones tapped, resentment this sort of

She rises to her feet, and go- Cheese is still an important.

The Royal and Ancient Golf and are still likely to be waked government.

item of army food. Even so, Club intends to fix a limit to the ing to the table washes her eyes there are stiltons loft,

number of a player's clubs. with some shing-shui or "holy What does it matter, so long as nahes from a burnt charm with a water" (made by mixing the

up in the night to be carted off If Russin's rond is one way to gnol without warrant or due to freedom and democracy it is That sort high time the world looked for process of Inw..."

U ǜ Cheer up! It's only 344 days to ChristmaA.

We overheard a newcomer that he can't get a decent in Hongkong. He should port a few ostriches,

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quantity of clear water). After

Home

it is a round number?

The Intest craze among pet this is done, she burns owners in Britain is the aquisi- imitation paper money ва ли any tion of freaks, such na white offering to the spirits and, busi- egg sparrows, white blackbirds etc. ness-like, demands

her fee im-In Hongkong several race pony (which may be any amount from owners have discovered that 50c upwards) and takes her de- they own white elephants.

parture,

It may be interesting to note that the deities who are invoked In this incantation are supposed to be the taal-tae or "seven sisters,”-

of thing might be excused in some other. It is remarkable states where dictators rule and that lenders of nations can be so where there is no pretence of lacking in discernment that freedom, but in Russia, where they should choose the hardest Lenin and his helpers thought to way to reform. The advanced cradle world revolution, KO- democracies can be pardoned for A writer in à London journal cialism and Utopia, it seems outja little self-satisfaction in hav-asserts that it's wrong to res- It is said that the Navy re- of place. Russia's recent his-ing discovered the advantages train girls too much. If they cruiting authorities find dimcul- don't advertise themselves!ty in securing good. cooks. tory has been remarkable for of constitutional revolution and they're liable to be left on the Perhaps it's because some cooks Ita-executions-of-political-trans--orderly..revolt,

shelf.

Ifocl bad-at-sea.-

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the Chinese name for the Pielades. (See the writer's article in the Pic- torial Supplement of the Telegraphy Saturday, August 14, 1937),