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Researches into Chinese superstitions, by Henry Doré, S.J. ;

Dore, Henri, Kennelly, M., tr · 1926 · Shanghai, Túsewei Printing Press · 5 pictures

Henri Doré's multi-volume survey of Chinese folk religion, magic and ritual, translated by M. Kennelly and printed by the Túsewei Press in Shanghai in 1926 for missionary and scholarly readers. Plates on tinted green, grey and yellow grounds reproduce paper charms in seal-script, the bagua trigram wheel with yin-yang, five poisonous creatures, and line drawings of robed figures.

Folklore · Superstition · Magic

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