The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-05-13
HGN Qt E~TlQNAHt.E SHAPES ArFEAH
TO the CEIE>TlAIS.
FccaliaritIes of the Returning shades
Nateriatigcd AnimalS
From the Hong Kosas China Review

From the Hong Kons China Review
One popularity about Chinese ghosts
is that they do not ALWAYS mateyialize.
but are frequently seen in incomplete,
form, the herd first becoming visible.
then the feet. then the body. aud SO on,
Another quaint belief is that ghosts
have no chin, and IL say 10 Cantonese
Nj mo ha-pa you've no chin-is
/ equivalent 10 saying you're a ghost .
Like English ghosts, they appear dur
ing the hours OF darkness. and are corr
4 PEELED to vanish at coek-cTow. bW the
conventional white clothing is absent
/ from the Chinese idea A ghost in China
always appears in the dress he common
iy wore during life, and his advent is
announced by candles burning not blue
but green the Greeks call slgernataral
terror green fear.
Animals also have their ghosts. \
resident At Canton. named Ling. had a
very Intelligent monkey. which having
been severely whipped fer some mis-
chief. became Sulky. refused food. and
died. Shortly after the aaoakey's ghost
began 10 haunt the house. Food Placed
on the tables mysteriouSly disappeared,
and strange anaoyanees took pale. Al
length a fire broke out II the house an
accountability. and Nj Ling shifted his
residence. But the monkeys ghost
still followed and prosecuted him, until.
as last resource. he took a room IN the
Temple Of the Five Hundred Worthless;
the monkey ghost did not dare 70 fa<e
the gods. and left him in peace. Mr.
Ling was still re>iiing III the Temple
last year.
Ghost stories Of the ordinary kind are
numerous. A mandarin met his death
in the late collision between the Chinese
steamer Fusing and the British steamer
q Es-s--,x~ yr-Sc l. II
sixty drowned. The mandarin's ghost
appeared to his wife. who was living in
streaming with water from
head 10 foot. He told her he had been
drowned. and that he had sent by cer-
tain friend some money for her use be-
fore he took passage In the Fusing. and
that the friend would al rive shortly.
Two days after the friend named arrived
with the money. and shortly after came
the intelligence os the Fasings disaster
The commander of 8 Chinese man-of-
war belonging IL the Foochow Arsenal
feet. was suddenly taken i'll. and died
at friends house. After his death,
the friend frequently saw his ghost. and
one night addressed il. saving "Yoa
should not lament: il was YOUR fate.
you should be satisfied with it," There
upon the ghost disappeared. and never
showed itself again 10 the same party,
but continued often 10 appear 70 the
men on board the ship he had been
being frequently seen TO
pace up and down the deck as he was
went during his lifetime az night. and
would sometimes place himself in tho
attitude Of drilling the mer.
Here Is a parallel 10 the celebrated
BeTkely Square story. 1t must be noted
that the ghosts of suicides are distin-
yulshed by wearing red silk haadker-
chiefs. Outside the north gate OF
there was house haunted
by evil. ghosts, where no human being
dared reside, ot which the doors were
ever barred and locked. A scholar
named is al bought the house people
All told him he was doing dangerous
thing, bu. he did not heed them. None
u his family would enter the house. SO
Is al went by himself. opened the
1oors. lit a candle and sat down. In the
middle OF the night a woman SLOWLY
appreac he'd, with red silk handkerchief
hanging 10 her neck. and having salut-
Il him. fastened a rope 10 the beam OF
he ceiling. and pat her neck in the
loose. Is al did not in the least change
'ounienanoe- The woman again fast
med rope and called on Ts'ai to DO as
ne mad done, but he only lifted his leg
md put his foot in the moose. The
woman said. You're wrong Ts'ai
aughed and answered. On the contrary.
was you who were wrong long time
80. or else you would not have come 10
his pass. The ghost cried bitterly,
md having bowed TO Ts'ai. departed,
md from that time the house was no
onger haunted. This Ts'ai was after
yard very distinguished scholar,
,nown as the Provincial Chancellor.
The writer remembers having read
= H.
'oiice cell. in which woman had COM
nifted suicide by hanging herself, after
vhich inmate after inmate continued 10
tempt to do the same, till at last girl
eclared that a fiendish little woman
ppeared in the cell at night and COM
handed her to hang herself. which she
cit herself irresistibly impelled to at
empt doing. The cell, it is said, had
0 be closed and abandoned.