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Illustration of the fuji (planchette spirit-writing) technique during the Qing period, in the book China and the Chinese (1869) by John L. Nevius

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English: Illustration of the fuji (planchette spirit-writing) technique during the Qing period, in the book China and the Chinese (1869) by John L. Nevius. Under it, the caption "Writing with a forked pen an oracle on sand". Two mediums hold the pencil over a sand tray, where characters are written allegedly under spiritual guidance
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Source Nevius, John L. (1869). China and the Chinese, p. 168. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Author The book's illustrator

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