Bird divination.  From Researchers Into Chinese Superstitions by Henry Doré, 1917.

From Pictures of the Chinese, Drawn by Themselves, by Robert Henry Cobbold, 1860.

This Chinese dragon is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.

From The Strand, 1894.

From Researchers Into Chinese Superstitions by Henry Doré, 1917.

From School Boys of Long Ago by Beatrice Hurley & Ina Sartorius and illustrated by Henry Rood, 1935.

From Hamlet's Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, 1969.

The Lin, a Chinese unicorn.  From Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould, 1886.

"Divination by dissecting Chinese characters."  From Researchers Into Chinese Superstitions by Henry Doré, 1917.

From Researchers Into Chinese Superstitions by Henry Doré, 1917.

"Slab for warding off bad luck."  From Researchers Into Chinese Superstitions by Henry Doré, 1917.

From Pictures of the Chinese, Drawn by Themselves, by Robert Henry Cobbold, 1860.

A talisman to protect vegetarians.  From Researchers Into Chinese Superstitions by Henry Doré, 1917.

From Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould, 1886.

From St. Nicholas, 1895.

From The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air by Jane Andrews and illustrated by Louisa Parsons Hopkins, 1861.

From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.

From St. Nicholas, 1890.

This goat-headed talismanic figure is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.

From What Is Taoism? by Herrlee Glessner Creel.