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Chinese Tales of Vampires, Beasts, Genies and Men

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The title is self-explanatory .Before the cultural and political changes of the nineteenth century the Chinese believed the body has two souls, a superior soul that leaves the body at he time of death, and an inferior soul that normally dissipates. In the West the inferior soul would be called a psychic residue. Sometimes, when a person has been psychically very strong, the inferior soul continues to animate the body, but as a stupid and evil vampire. This could explain why, when bodies are exhumed there are sometimes fragments of wood under the fingernails, so this does not necessarily mean that the person was buried alive as has been commonly assumed. The Chinese believed that foxes could assume a human form by day, but not when asleep. One of these tales is of a married woman whose secret lover had overslept and had to leave when the servants were up. She protected herself by inventing a tale that she had found a fox asleep in her bed and that when it awoke it turned into a handsome young man that ran away.

Language: English

Pages: 116

Format: Kindle Edition

Chinese Tales of Vampires, Beasts, Genies and Men

4/5 ( ratings)

The title is self-explanatory .Before the cultural and political changes of the nineteenth century the Chinese believed the body has two souls, a superior soul that leaves the body at he time of death, and an inferior soul that normally dissipates. In the West the inferior soul would be called a psychic residue. Sometimes, when a person has been psychically very strong, the inferior soul continues to animate the body, but as a stupid and evil vampire. This could explain why, when bodies are exhumed there are sometimes fragments of wood under the fingernails, so this does not necessarily mean that the person was buried alive as has been commonly assumed. The Chinese believed that foxes could assume a human form by day, but not when asleep. One of these tales is of a married woman whose secret lover had overslept and had to leave when the servants were up. She protected herself by inventing a tale that she had found a fox asleep in her bed and that when it awoke it turned into a handsome young man that ran away.

Language: English

Pages: 116

Format: Kindle Edition

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