What would be the names for a witch hunter in "fantasy" China. I know wu = witch.

Ni-wu li'ren? I dunno, my Chinese is crap.

Yeah, Google says Nǚwū lièrén

OK. Not really liking that. I was hoping there were some cool "titles" in chinese myth about witch hunters.

Quote from: danbuter;638382OK. Not really liking that. I was hoping there were some cool "titles" in chinese myth about witch hunters.

I would just go with Wu hunter.

Quote from: danbuter;638382OK. Not really liking that. I was hoping there were some cool "titles" in chinese myth about witch hunters.

Fangshi most likely.

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Quote from: danbuter;638344What would be the names for a witch hunter in "fantasy" China. I know wu = witch.

Im no expert, other than wikipedia (which of course is always accurate), but i'm not sure that's what witch translates as. In fact i'm not sure what witches are culturally in china. Demons? Practitioners of Taoist sorcery and Chinese Black Magic?

And I suppose as your lawyer you expect me to believe in these things too?

How can I know that Mr Shen?

Quote from: danbuter;638344What would be the names for a witch hunter in "fantasy" China. I know wu = witch.

Confucian bureaucrat.

Quote from: danbuter;638382OK. Not really liking that. I was hoping there were some cool "titles" in chinese myth about witch hunters.

In the Mr. Vampire films, a Taoist priest deals with the hopping vampires and ghosts. I don't think it's a stretch that they'd also deal with witches.

My post was referring to the fact that it was largely the rise of Confucianism which marked the death-knell of the Wu tradition as a really powerful force in China (though the rise of intellectual Taoism, which kind of grew out of the Wu tradition, played its part too).

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Cool. I didn't know that Taoism took over from Wu, though I probably should have guessed. Maybe that's why Taoist monks are often featured as ghost-killers in the various Hong Kong movies.

You might find something of use on this page about Shoki,
http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/shoki.shtml

Quote from: KenHR;638369Yeah, Google says Nǚwū lièrén

From my nascent Chinese

Nǚwū lièrén

Nǚ = female
wū  = witch and a load of other shit from dirt to tungsten but if you use this character 巫 it means witch, shaman, priest - the character is from people working ..... weirdly


lièrén
liè = Hunting if you use 猎  - other characters have multiple meanings from raw to :rolleyes: (yes really 睙 )
rén = person

So literally "person hunting female shaman"

Seems close enough.

Quote from: danbuter;639308Cool. I didn't know that Taoism took over from Wu, though I probably should have guessed. Maybe that's why Taoist monks are often featured as ghost-killers in the various Hong Kong movies.

Yes. In the early (pre-unification) period, the Wu had a huge societal role; this was gradually eroded as these people who were fairly powerful and independent "witch doctors" started being replaced with the more philosophical (but equally esoteric) Taoists; then the Confucians came along and created a more orderly society.  Between the Taoists and the Confucians, they co-opted a lot of what the Wu used to do; until finally the Wu were reduced to exorcists and petty magicians who were at times harassed by the authorities as troublemakers and frauds.  There's more details to the whole thing than that, but basically it was a case of folk religion being eclipsed by the more sophisticated forms of religion of increasingly civilized society.

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