His proprietor was decapitated on the spot.

Macgowan says that parasitic monsters are manufactured in China by a similar process of transplantation.

He adds that the deprivation of light for several years renders the child a great curiosity, if in conjunction its growth is dwarfed by means of food and drugs, and its vocal apparatus destroyed.

A certain priest subjected a kidnapped boy to this treatment and exhibited him as a sacred deity.

Macgowan mentions that the child looked like wax, as though continually fed on lardaceous substances.