Results for "cantonese"
8 entries found.
🇻🇳 Vietnam and 1 moreVietnamese folk religiontín ngưỡng dân gian Việt Nam
A collection of local spirit worship and ancestral veneration in VietnamTradition · Protection · Healing Living
🇮🇹 Italy and 5 moreBogeyman
A mythical creature used across cultures to frighten children into obedienceFigure · Cursing and harm Living
🇨🇳 China and 3 moreTang-ki童乩 (tóngjī); 乩童 (jītóng)
A Chinese folk-religion medium whose body a deity is held to take overTradition · Speaking with spirits and the dead · Seeing and foretelling Living
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreKau chim求籤
A divination practice using numbered bamboo sticks to seek answers from deitiesOracle · Seeing and foretelling · Power and authority Living
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreJoss paper金紙
Paper burned as money and goods for ancestors, gods and the deadCharm · Speaking with spirits and the dead · Luck and prosperity Living
🇨🇳 China and 1 moreMogwai魔鬼
A Chinese term for demons and evil spirits, borrowed from Sanskrit lore through Buddhism.Being · Cursing and harm Historical
🇨🇳 China and 1 moreVillain hitting打小人
A Cantonese rite that strikes paper effigies with a shoe to ward off enemiesTradition · Cursing and harm · Protection Living
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreChinese numerology中国数术
A system of interpreting numbers as lucky or unlucky based on their pronunciation in Chinese dialects.Belief · Luck and prosperity Living
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Chinese numerology: Sarang, Public domain, source
- Kau chim: No machine-readable author provided. 9old9 assumed (based on copyright, Public domain, source
- Bogeyman: Francisco Goya, Public domain, source
- Tang-ki: Bunkichi Chang, CC BY 2.0, source
- Villain hitting: No machine-readable author provided. Underbar dk assumed (based on cop, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Joss paper: Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vietnamese folk religion: Unknown (traditional painting dated back to the 17th century), Public domain, source
- Mogwai: Gisling, CC BY-SA 3.0, source