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A title coined by historian Philip Kuhn, the "Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768," refers to a series of events in which a number of masons and members of transient populations were charged with sorcery in central and eastern China, especially in the lower Yangtze river delta region. These accusations of sorcery were focused on the idea of "soul stealing" (chiao-hun), a process in which the accused was thought to use sorcery against someone else in order to obtain that person's soul, thereby giving the sorcerer power and causing the victim to fall ill or die. The most frequently reported cases of soul-stealing in 1768 were charges of queue-cutting, which involved the act of cutting off a man's queue. The act of cutting off a man's queue possessed political significance and drew the attention of