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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 "Fictional characters who use magic" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 525 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768: Robert C. Tucker: Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941: Daniel Yergin: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power: 1992 Alexander Stille: Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families under Fascism: Winner [13] Noel Mostert
Kodoku (蠱毒, 'curse poison'), also called kodō (蠱道, 'curse method'), kojutsu (蠱術, 'curse technique'), and fuko (巫蠱, 'sorcery curse') is a type of poisonous magic found in Japanese folklore. It is the Japanese derivative of the Chinese gu magic. It is said to have been widely used in ancient China.
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 ...
Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are making their long-awaited public debut at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., ahead of Lunar New Year next week.
Orphen (オーフェン, Ōfen) Voiced by: Showtaro Morikubo (1998, 2020 anime) [1] (Japanese); David Matranga (1998, 2020 anime) (English) Orphen is the main protagonist of the Sorcerous Stabber Orphen series and the title character, is known for his arrogance, gruff demeanor, short temper, and near-obsessive drive to finish what he is working on as soon as possible without distraction.