Canton notes.
Canton, January 10.
A haunted house.
Some amount of consternation is being felt in the neighbourhood known as Hok-ming in Honam by the report that a certain house is haunted. According to the universal report of the neighbourhood a spirit has taken up its abode with a certain family and manifests itself by violently moving the furniture. As soon as a meal is brought in, the spirit upsets the table and litters the food all over the floor; servants of the house have received severe blows from unseen hands and the spirit utters strange noises.
A more remarkable thing still is that flames of fire continuously burst out of boxes and such like articles; when the flames subside the wood is not even scorched.
To escape the unwelcome visitant the family moved out of the house but to their sorrow the spirit moved too and, according to report, cut off the queue [sic] of a man last night.
The prevalent idea is that the family formerly ill-treated some person since deceased adn the spirit is the Kwai, or devil, of the person come back to take revenge.
Overland China Mail, 18th January 1910.