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Chinese Magic and Supersitition
- 1974 ----- color ----- 66 min ----- vhs
- Includes four films originally shot on super 8mm sound film: Luck of the Lord of the Land (17 min) A village neighborhood prepares a feast in honor of the local earth god called the Lord of the Land. The men consume the feast with gusto then go to the temple and cast moonstones to select the host for the next feast. Curing Séance (15 min) A young girl has an abscessed broken leg. To help in healing it a special "divining chair" is used to examine the leg. In the course of the seance a number of geomantical and social relationships are diagnosed as contributing to the girl's illness. The divining chair writes out charms to help correct the condition which afflicts her. Breaking the Blood Bowl (19 min) The blood which a Chinese mother spills in childbirth is extremely polluting. She must undergo tortures in hell unless her descendents take this pollution upon themselves. In the course of a woman's funeral rites a man acting as a buddha leads the mourners into hell where they symbolically drink the blood of their birth thus freeing their mother from torment. Feng Shui: Chinese Geomancy (16 min) Concerns the influence of topography on man's fate and is especially important in the placing of graves. Includes the exhumation of a skeleton, the selection of a new grave site by a geomancer, the building of a new tomb and the reinterment of the bones. [Note: Not up to current technical standards]
- Topics: (Anthropology: Cultural, China, Religions: Eastern)
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