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Miao

noun
1.
A people living traditionally in mountain villages in southern China and adjacent areas of Vietnam and Laos and Thailand; many have emigrated to the United States.  Synonym: Hmong.
2.
A language of uncertain affiliation spoken by the Hmong.  Synonyms: Hmong, Hmong language.





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... belief of the Miao-tse, an aboriginal tribe of the province of Canton, in China, the souls of unborn children are kept in the garden of two deities called "Flower-Grandfather" and "Flower-Grandmother," and when to these have been made by a priest sacrifices of hens or swine, the children ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain


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