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# Chinese child's shoe of 1926 with a cat face as a charm against evil spirits
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/detskii-bashmachok-iz-kitaia-1926-god/
- Published: 2017-07-14T08:21:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:57:47.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, The East, Observations, Ethnography

A child's shoe from China, 1926\. The cat fooled evil spirits and kept the child safe. It brings a lump to the throat: my grandmother sewed me just such shoes when I was little, as her own grandmother had sewn them for her in her day