The Romance of the Milky Way, and Other Studies & Stories

rendering would be "ghost-sickness." In Japanese-English dictionaries you will find the meaning of Rikombyō given as "hypochondria;" and doctors really use the term

her remained at home. (In my "Exotics and Retrospectives," under the title "A Question in the Zen Texts," the reader will find a typical Chinese story on the subject,-the story of the girl Ts'ing.) Some form of the primitive belief in doubles and wraiths probably exists in every part of the world; but this Far Eastern variet

ws a maid-servant anxious to offer a cup of tea to her mistress,-a victim of the "ghost-sickness." The servant cannot distinguish between the origi

, sor

mo w

omb

we t

zo wa

the Rikombyō it is not possible to distinguish. To find out whi

tsu

i nag

éga

a no

no wa

nevertheless an extra body is visibl

-tab

e shi

utat

wa on

rik

and, the woman has thus become two bodi

kag

wazur

omb

no ho

u miru

here was not even a shadow of her left to be seen,-yet, contra

ko

ni ka

zash

y d?

no wa

eople in the back room, and never approaches the fr

a ko

wa ot

é su

o mo

ga

the arms of a man;-and the white-haired mother, little kn

aku

su no

nuru

-kaga

no wa

reflected in her mirror,-that might be caused by the mirror d