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or three feet distant. The death of three men killed during a 
thunderstorm in the centre of the Téngyiieh valley last year is 
put down to the same agency, and it is avowed by the peasantry 
that if the earth were dug up for a radius of two or three feet 
around the spot where each of the corpses was found, a stone 
of a similar kind would be found within a depth of 4 or 5 feet 
of the surface. 
e stones are also said to have occult medicinal properties 
and to be efficacious in the treatment of the intermittent fever 
patient, who, a short time before the next attack is due, leaves 
his home and goes a short distance, perhaps half a mile away, 
these healing properties, from its proximity to the family idol 
and to its sharing with the latter the devotions of the house- 
holds. In the Jung Chang Fu district stone implements are 
sometimes placed as propitiatory offerings before the image of 
the god . thunder in the temple devoted to his worship by 
unknown in Europe. Mere coincidence could never ensure such a 
widespread circulation to this curious superstition, whatever its 
true origin may be. 
Authenticity of the Téngyiieh Stone Implements. 
Anderson was not convinced as to the authenticity of some 
of his specimens, as can be seen from the following paragraph 
quoted from his paper. ! 
** The high estimation in which they are held, both in Yunnan 
and Burmah, suggests the suspicion that the Chinese 
in former days did not neglect to take advantage of the 
desire to possess those implements for charms and made a 
1 Op. cit., pp. 411. 
