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Cholera Superstitions in China

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 24, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 39.

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Cholera Superstitions in China

At several places in Kiangsi Province, China, terrible orgies are said to have taken place to convince the Chinese gods that enough persons had died of cholera to satisfy their demands for one year. Every tortoise obtainable was taken to the river and drowned, it being supposed that the cholera demon was inhabiting the body of some tortoise in Kiangsi. But the plague has not decreased.