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Chinese sorcery scares refer to a series of moral panics or mass hysteria events in Imperial China, occurring in 1768, 1810, 1876, and 1908. [1] These scares were characterized by widespread fears of sorcery practices, particularly "soul-stealing," a form of alleged magic believed to cause illness or death.
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674821513.. Winner of the 1990 Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies，Chinese：叫魂：1768年中国妖术大恐慌; National Polity and Local Power: The Transformation of Late Imperial China (1990), with Timothy Brook and Min ...
Pages in category "1768 non-fiction books" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
The eleven tales that make up Return to Nevèrÿon are set before the dawn of history. Nevèrÿon (pronounced "Ne-VER-y-on" according to the preface to Tales of Nevèrÿon) is the fictional land the stories are set in, a name derived from the aristocratic neighborhood of Neveryóna (pronounced "Ne-ver-y-O-na") in the capital city Kolhari.
1768 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1768th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 768th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1760s decade. As of the start of 1768, the ...
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Sorcery commonly refers to: Magic (supernatural) , the application of beliefs, rituals or actions employed to manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces Sorcery ( goetia ) , magic involving the evocation of spirits