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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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"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

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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

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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

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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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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-

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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..