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Soulstealers : the Chinese sorcery scare of 1768

In the reign of Ch'ien-lung emperor, Hungli, mass hysteria broke out. It was feared that sorcerers were roaming the land clipping off the ends of men's queues (braids worn by royal decree) and stealing their souls. Kuhn chronicles this epidemic of fear and the official prosecution of soulstealers

eBook, English, 1990
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1990