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Show Queer Funerals of Korea. H Tho Koroans havo a curious dread ot tho spirits ot their ancestors and H of demons, which lends to ull kinds H of precautions and propitiations. Most j olaborato anil oxpenslve graves are j tuuile for tho dead, generally on a tor- -H race bcooped out of a hillside, with a nioiiud and railings, a, grovo of troes, and a shrlno with an avonuo of H strango carved stquo flguros of men ' and beasts. The amount of land kept H out of cultivation by theso burial .? 1 ! i Ii mid to be almo3t Incredible. ( M 'W IJbIbbH |