ABSTRACT
The Chinese are very superstitious about the foreigner, one of which has resulted in their calling him Kuei-tzu or 'devil'. A very amusing story is told of a red-haired, red-whiskered, blue-eyed British Consul at Canton who was, as are most of the British officials, of an investigative disposition, and was anxious to know why it was that the Chinese call us of the West 'foreign devils'. This natural superstition of the people was taken hold of by the Boxers in 1900, and circulated still more widely by all kinds of placards, both in prose and verse. These superstitions are not only connected with the religion of the people, but with their natural science as well. In the earlier days some English missionaries bought property and built upon the hill, when the people, fearing that the feng shua of the city would be injured, destroyed the entire property of the mission, consisting of a church, school-house, and dwelling.
