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In digging out the earth to build the wall the workmen had broken into this dragon's cave, little thinking of the consequences which would result
Read record →The following particulars are given concerning the President of the Ministry, whose name was Lü Yüeh
Read record →The Emperor bore malice toward Chang T'ien-shih, the Master of the Taoists, because he refused to pay the taxes on his property, and conceived a plan to bring about his destruction
Read record →A minute later, sad and pensive, he stooped to pick it up; what was his joyful surprise when he saw reflected in it the subterranean room and the musicians!
Read record →The Emperor Ming Huang of the T'ang dynasty, also known as T'ang Hsüan Tsung, in the reign-period K'ai Yüan (A.D
Read record →rcy, great pity, save from misery, save from evil, broad, great, efficacious, responsive Kuan Yin Buddha,' She saves the tempest-tossed sailor, and so has eclipsed the Empress of Heaven, who, as the female Neptune, is the patroness of seamen; in drought the ma
Read record →If she is left without help, who is there who will be willing to adopt the virtuous life?
Read record →The King's warrant arrived, and suddenly the sky became overcast and darkness fell upon the earth
Read record →The t'u-ti sent out his invitations for the ceremony
Read record →He is also identified with Li Ning-yang, to whom Lao Tzu descended from Heaven in order to instruct him in the wisdom of the gods
Read record →In a forest near by a beggar had just died of hunger
Read record →It was just at this time that the famous Taoist Yeh Fa-shan, thanks to his skill in necromancy, was in great favour at Court
Read record →She elected to live on Yün-mu Ling, twenty li west of Tsêng-ch'êng Hsien
Read record →This time also she revived, and ran to inform Pao Lao-yeh
Read record →The popular pictures often represent most of these articles changed into various kinds of sea-monsters
Read record →The water of this river, the Chiu-wan Ho, 'Nine-bends River,' which communicated with the Eastern Sea, turned completely red, and Lung Wang's palace shook to its foundations
Read record →Then he organized his subjects into a regular army, 47,000 all told
Read record →Jun, Dragonking of the Western Sea, having burnt a precious pearl on the roof of his father's palace, was denounced to Yü Huang, who had him beaten with three hundred blows and suspended in the air
Read record →The Demon set fire to everything, so that the Monkey might be blinded by the smoke
Read record →When Pa-chieh at length had disentangled himself from the webs, he saw Sun and Sha Ho-shang approaching
Read record →By and by Ku went in, and his mother told him the girl had come to beg a little rice, as they had had nothing to eat all day
Read record →In the Country of the Giants the people are fifty feet in height
Read record →The wild beasts of the mountain have a king
Read record →is the method referred to: On leaving his home the herb-gatherer of the mountains arms himself with two large hollow bamboo tubes which he slips over his wrists and arms; he also carries a jar of very strong wine
Read record →and the country was perpetually in a state of anarchy and confusion, being overrun by bands of marauding rebels; indeed, so bold did these become under a chief named Li Tzu-ch'êng that they actually marched on the capital with the avowed intention of placing t
Read record →A flourishing hsien city stood in the centre of a populous country
Read record →With the flow of new learning which thus gained admittance to qualify the frigid and monotonous cultivation of the ancient classics and their commentators, there came also an impetus to indulgence in the licence of imagination in which it is impossible to mist
Read record →Twenty feet or so along another gallery was found an old tortoise-shell covered with a thick growth of moss; it was the Tortoise-back Hill of the dream
Read record →Several remarkable parallelisms of Chinese religious and mythological beliefs with those recorded in the Hebrew scriptures may also be briefly noted
Read record →The mere fireside tale of the primitive may be a narrative, true or imaginary, or a sort of fairy story, a fable or a parable, intended mainly for the edification of the young and obviously pointing a moral or emphasizing some useful truth or precept
Read record →At a certain stage in this part of the ceremony there was a pause
Read record →At this moment the heads of the snakes were thrust several times into the liquid, so that even parts of their bodies were submerged, and were then drawn out, not having left the hands of the priests, and forcibly thrown across the room upon the sand mosaic, kn
Read record →While the water, rising around the village, came higher, the old people got on the tops of the houses, for they thought they could not struggle across with the younger people
Read record →Cicero[1] tells us that it was generally believed that the dead lived on beneath the earth, and special provision was made for them in every Latin town in the "mundus," a deep trench which was dug before the "pomerium" was traced, and regarded as the particula
Read record →All Nature was teeming with life, and he felt an answering thrill, when suddenly, as if from the very fountains of being within him, there welled up a consciousness of death, and with it the formless nothing, and a vision of himself lying cold, motionless, dum
Read record →When we come to inquire into the appearance of ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon, we find, as we should expect, that they are a vague, unsubstantial copy of their former selves on earth
Read record →Ghost stories play a very subordinate part in classical literature, as is only to be expected
Read record →Though Pliny certainly did not possess his friend's amazing credulity, he takes the request with becoming seriousness, and promises to do his best; but he adds that the real question is whether Suetonius's dreams are usually true or not
Read record →Plutarch placed great faith in ghosts and visions
Read record →The Greek and Roman stories hardly come up to the standards required by the Society for Psychical Research
Read record →In a letter to Sura[30] the younger Pliny gives us what may be taken as a prototype of all later haunted-house stories
Read record →There were two candles left on the table, and these he put out
Read record →In the Mostellaria,[33] Plautus uses a ghost as a recognized piece of supernatural machinery
Read record →Great battlefields are everywhere believed to be haunted
Read record →But the strangest account of the habitual haunting of great battlefields is to be found in Philostratus's Heroica, which represents the spirits of the Homeric heroes as still closely connected with Troy and its neighbourhood
Read record →Maximus cannot, indeed, boast of having seen Hector, though he also has had his visions vouchsafed him
Read record →Achilles himself is once said to have appeared to a trader who frequently visited the island
Read record →the dead, are summoned in the dense gloom of the mouth of Acheron with salt blood"; and Strabo quotes the early Greek historian Ephorus as relating how, even in his day, "the priests that raise the dead from Avernus live in underground dwellings, communicating
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