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Tonkinese beliefs regarding the protection of childrenarticle 1938 • Nguyen, Văn Khoan & Stewart, Elinor
Vietnamese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a detailed account of the Tonkinese practice of 'selling' children to spirits, for their protection. The author, who is with the école Française d'Extreme-Orient, presented this paper at a meeting of the Institute Indochinois pour l'étude de ...