Looking After the Ashes Old Wives' Tales, Taboos; Supernatural and Childhood Superstitions

If you eat while lying down, you will turn into a snake. If you don't polish off all the rice on your plate you will marry a man full of pimples and pockmarks.Looking After the Ashes is a semi-biographical fiction of Kopi Soh's childhood stories. Growing up in a large extended Taoist influenced Peranakan family filled with strong women, Soh hears these words of 'wisdom' daily. She used to live in a world where clipping finger nails at night was strictly forbidden, pointing at the moon would result in one's ears getting chopped off, and children were forced to stay indoors during sundown for fear of collision with evil forces. A world where mental disorders and illnesses were believed to be caused by malevolent spirits. Talisman, mediums and fortune tellers were a part of everyday life.

ISBN:	9789814882101
Publisher:	Penguin Random House SEA
Imprint:	Penguin Books
Published date:	31 Aug 2021
Language:	English
Number of pages:	216
Weight:	213g
Height:	1mm
Width:	1mm
Spine width:	1mm

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