hungry ghost and preta

[Benjamin Barrett]

Thank you for those earlier cites. 

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On Jul 30, 2014, at 12:48 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> (Unfortunately, a hungry ghost chewed much of BB's message into gibberish.)
> FWIW:  Douglas (1873) has <hungry ghost> twice in his Southern Min
> dictionary, on pages 250b & 168b: <iau1-kui2> 'a hungry ghost' (= Mandarin
> e4-gui3). Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language
> of Amoy.

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