Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1902 — Chinese Superstition. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Superstition.

As an example of the superstition prevailing even among those in authority in the Chinese empire, the following extract from the Hongkong Daily Press is printed: “The Tartar General of Canton has been troubled by an evil influence in his yamen, which in one month caused the death of his wife and daughter, as well as of a former Tartar general. A sung shui professor was finally called in. He looked over the city, and decided the evil influence was the roof of the library of the government school for foreign languages. The roof, which was a peaked one, was at once removed and la now being replaced by a flat one.