Chapter VII

GHOSTS, APPARITIONS, AND SUPERNATURAL BEINGS.

Prominent Part played by Ghosts on the Chinese Stage—The False
Ghost at Chinkeang—Chinese Terms for Ghosts; Their Shapeless
Form—Candles Burning Green in the Presence of Ghosts—Apparition at
Shanghai—The Ghost from the S. S. Fusing—The Foochow Gun-boat
Ghost—Ghosts of Suicides and of Women who Die in Child-bed—Ghosts
of Murdered People—Haunted Houses—Sanding Floors to Detect Ghostly
Visitants—Intelligence of Ghosts—Pauper Ghosts—The Shen of
Offence—The Ghost in a Chinese Farce—Idol Ghosts—Ghosts Permitted
to Revisit the Earth—Charms against Malevolent Ghosts—Animal
Ghosts, pp. 71–79.