We print below " few extracts from Dr. Dudyoon's very interesting and instructive Report, to which reference was made in a rocunt article, pai We tried to reason him out of his phantasy, but it was all to no purpose; the more we tried, the more he belaboured poor body. Iie wer i continually used xs a plug to the hole in the trachea, otherwise no sound was ited. We stitched up the wound veral times, but by virtue of its callousness, tightness and his constant flayellations, our efforts were attended with but [little success. The patient already mentioned in this report, beat his forehead igualy, and, atill finding no relief, threw himself into a river from which he was rescued and is now perfectly sane an his right mind, understanding clearly ions and words, He is anxious to hi igly wound healed, which rosed outer table of frontal His et, he described as A young man one night while sleeping on hia k'ang was accosted by a spirit, who handed him " knife and ordered hi open h While hesitating, the spirit aald he would himself do it and taking the ki ped open the belly and exposed. Next day the patient with red at the pital in his right mi ry, from which it was us sible to move The most remarkable care however which came to our notice was a Mr. Hell, 40 yours of aye, a native of Tenge ow, in the pro-vinea of Shantung, in Ninghai chow, at a place called Wei pa tai, At present ives at place east of Wu tu tre kow Possession,—6 Chinese belis by evil or depre amoy inhabit the individual disguised ne foxes, hedgehogs, weasels or awakes, the country there are eniall houses everywhere for the worship of theee xuimals, ho colours belonging to Ukem ure black, grey, yellow and white respectively, There ie w system in Chinn possessed of various methods by which spirits can be mads to come d reveal the future or lose avcrete, such ws planchette, spirit-rapping, prayers, writing chi with the char: acter for demon? form 4 an invariable part of them, burning these and driuking the infusion of the asi water oF tea. They algo burn income and prostrate themselves, all with the design apparently of appearing the 9) the person afflicted sve to be in ordinary health and the cursory observer would net distinct 80 possessed, but on close im odd and queer, especially ut the eyes and speech may be detected. Dhey axe called spirits ur yeni or immortals and are most frequently associated with ip vf the Lavist Gud of ho possessed are the creatures of their NInstances, They svemt to be beyond their own powers of will, What they do, is done unwillingly they feel compelled to act in the way they senses ate-said to be frequently caused by evil spirits, The mysterious tail-cutting mania whi 14 a fow years avy was cent this belief. "Che worship or the fox has been particularly prominent at Peking of lute yeara and we great were the crowds of people that tucked to its shrine soliciting the cure of all manner of diseases, that the officials have lately lind (o order its removal to " temple.
A ult named Chang about 40 years of age; from Paoting Fu came to the dit sary with wu opening in his wind-pipe. The wife, five sons daughters. In the Sth year of Kitatny-Hou (1879) with moon ninth day xt 3 o'clock pan, the father wont to the hullo to gath fuel, Hie fourth son, called Laifu, 4 youre old, was proceeding to the family of Chao wh" lived in the same court, wien a snake entered hit body. On the Ith the child was taken to the mowutnius and burned. On the fuel being consumed, it was covered that the body was not burned. j Crema ted a seo ud time with 26th thie Ind was eaten on the hills by a white fox. On the axine day " snake coiled round the ley and entered the body of his second daughter, called Yate, a girl seven yours of age. She could not straighten her limbs, her colour changed, she died, her body was taken to {the mountains and burned and was deatroyed by the fire. In the Gth year of Kuang-Bott, second m th day, his also the a1 the remaining family, and all became unconscion were unaware of what was transpiring around them or what their xctio were. When nearly dead they all gradually recovered. In the mi idly of the 3rd moon his eldest daughter, called Txi-Hsinu-rh, aged eleven years, was also attacked by the snake, and xt it legs and arms moved in all directions; afterwards she could move her honda xd feet onl gradually she lost all power of mov and the father who was also under 1on, the second day his wife called How Shih 39 years of age (lier birth-day ocoura on the dth day of dth moon, the day of the fire poisons, viz snake, scorpion, lizard, frog and centipede) was also killed by the snake, and on the Sed day 1 j placed in her coffin two clouda of a blue and white colour covered the courtyard, dense as to prevent different being recognised, After the cutfiui wound was self-inflicted; believing that clouds disappeared. In the evening of ho was possessed of a fox, he had deter-the same day, these two coloured clouds mined upon giving it exit." He was of: returned. One piece of the blae cloud, as observe! violently beating his breast Tnrge as a large tub, hovered over the shoulder and head, which gave him no culti about teu feet above it. The light emitted from the cloud wns yellow and ite bri ea day. At midnight ight disappeared. On the 8th day of 11th moon Mr. Hei ted for Peking, of about 40 days? journey. On own door one purple, standing twenty foot high, and continued about as long na one takes to ext a meal, and then di peared, He came to Peking to lodge a complaint with an Imperially xppuinted oficial who hay the direction of such occurrences. His office is called Eh it and his name is Chang cli The pour man turned up at the hospi and recounted the above story. We tonk him m for some time an ioned and questioned him but his changed, fe had ubid. OF his eldest daughter, he 4 weasel jumped down from the top of " wall upon her head, and when carried out her legs quivered, When he himself was attacked, he said he went to pray to the Lord of Heaven, when it thurio dered twenty times and there were dashes of lightning. Upon enquiry if any oth is village hind boon affected, i Huang of also of 7 person ther family of 6, thad died; inw family called Wu of 3 persons 2 Ind divd in another family of the came name of two persons, 0 in the family of How 1 died, in that of Hau three died that of Lan of 9 persons, seven hud died, In the cases there was abdominal diate ion; sometimes however the abdomen was dim ished in size; the dise went to th head, and th afflicted tu ned black, ping—disearw of evil or def otod disensy—previous year an elated to us the The case was not without some di It was evidently not epilepsy nor ectusy, nur delirium like D catulepsy, nor insanity, nor char was it? His outwar when he elf, suggested the lott now and then, as fre quently as every minute or two he cried ut and his whole body was shaken convulsively, but especially his hend, We tried the effect of survive sedatives but with no benefit. As the man was 110 Christ'an and know nothing of the religion of Jesus, we did not attempt the Biblical method of casting out devils, Had we auch a case again 1 should feel inclined from the success reported by the Rev. De Nevius of Chefoo, to try the Sori As it was, we were poor hit he laboured under might undeceive him by Imving reeuurse it was supposed we
to some plan by which he mixlht believe the snake had been expelled. Accordingly was blind-folded, a busin of water wae procured, " long snake of white paper wee artfully concealed and a large spatula was used at a knife (for devils are said to be afraid of polished steel) and a sev-saw mo ion made on hi After great exertic he much a ake was extracted from the ady amid the most fearful convule sion, his eyes were opened just to 800 one of the attendants carrying away the snake drowned in the basin of water. At the moment of its supposed exit, the convulsive effort was ao strong that the little cap he wore on hie hexd was raised several inches in the air. After this he was considerably improved but not altogether free from the spasmodic head movements. I contributed a little mot towards Lamasary imploring the pri prayers to drive out the evil spirit which took the form of a snake.
Monguls.—A goodly number of Mougula lave been avon each winter, We bare
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