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[91] Gray, op. cit. i. 337 sqq.
[92] de Groot, Religious System of China, (vol. ii. book) i. 748. Ball, op. cit. p. 565. Cathonay, in Les missions catholiques, xxxi. 341.
[93] de Groot, op. cit. (vol. ii. book) i. 792.
[94] Huc, op. cit. p. 181. Matignon, in Archives d’anthropologie criminelle, xii. 371 sqq. de Groot, op. cit. (vol. iv. book) ii. 450 sq. Cathonay, in Les missions catholiques, xxxi. 341 sq. Ball, op. cit. p. 566 sq.
[95] Davis, China, ii. 94. Dennys, Folk-Lore of China, p. 74 sq.
[96] Giles, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, ii. 363, n. 9.
[97] Gray, op. cit. i. 337.
[98] Giles, op. cit. ii. 365.
[99] Ibid. ii. 363.