The book Corea Or Cho-Sen, the Land of the Morning Calm was written by author Landor Arnold Henry Savage Here you can read free online of Corea Or Cho-Sen, the Land of the Morning Calm book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Corea Or Cho-Sen, the Land of the Morning Calm a good or bad book?
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Frequently, if the latter is supposed to have been possessed by evil spirits, and to have been carried off by them, a man is hired, if no relation is willing to do it, to ring a hand-bell for several con- A COREAN FUNERAL 119 secutive days, near the house which the late unfor- tunate had occupied, the shrill sound being supposed to have the power of showing the unwelcome guests, that their presence has been noticed, and that they had better retire and leave the house to its rightful owners. I n...eed hardly remark that a few hours of this noise is quite enough to turn the best of good spirits into an evil one. But to return to our funeral procession ; this, when the " Gate of the Dead " is reached, becomes broken up ; the friends who were following the hearse putting out their lights and ceasing from their singing and praying. Only two or three of the nearest relations continue to follow the coffin, still carried by the paid bearers, and when a suitable spot is reached these proceed to bury the remains.
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