Folklore of China and Its Affinities With That of the Aryan and Semitic Races 1876

ISBN: 9780766163157

出版社: Kessinger Publishing, LLC

出版年: 2003-6-26

页数: 176

定价: 22.95

装帧: Pap

内容简介

This work contains a series of articles which lend a better knowledge of Chinese popular beliefs. Contents: introductory; birth, marriage and death; days and seasons; portents or omens, auguries, lucky numbers and dreams; charms, spells, amulets and divinations; superstitions as to various subjects; ghosts, apparitions and supernatural beings; witchcraft and demonology; elves, fairies and brownies; serpents, dragons, fabulous animals and monsters; superstitions regarding the powers of nature; legends of locality, household tales, etc.; fables and proverbial lore.