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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

A volume of Henri Doré's Researches into Chinese Superstitions, translated by M. Kennelly and printed by the Túsewei Press in Shanghai in 1926 for missionaries and Western students of Chinese religion. The plates are numbered line drawings of Taoist talismanic charm characters, each brushed in heavy black strokes inside a ruled frame with small annotations in Chinese naming deities, trigrams and cyclical signs.

Folklore · Superstition · Magic

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