When I was a child, I could hear wonderful stories about the devil, the fairy mother and the prince in the sky ... Drinking water in the wild is bound to cost money, somewhere is bound to detour, and whistling at night is bound to be scolded ... Hundred Lions Festival, dragon burning and Dragon Boat Festival are always very lively, fishermen always catch clam shells, and Miaoji's lingering love songs at night are always sung until dawn. ...
Because of the confrontation and war with the Miao people, there are countless eccentricities here. Traffic congestion and economic underdevelopment can explain these strange phenomena. ...
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According to relevant data, the method of releasing people is an ancient black witchcraft, which was recorded in Chunqiu Zuozhuan more than two thousand years ago. Zheng Qiao, a poet in the Song Dynasty, even recorded the method of making drugs, to the effect that all kinds of poisonous insects were concentrated in a vessel, so that they could attack each other and devour each other. Finally, this method was handed down, and it was the king of poisonous insects. Rulers of all previous dynasties have very strict criminal laws on drug making, so the practice of witchcraft is completely in a secret state. Although there are a lot of records about poison in the chronicles of past dynasties, they are always vague, which makes poison and poison more secretive.
Notes in Ganzhou Tanglu: "Miao girls can kill people by witchcraft and are called grass ghosts. If there is a grudge, let it go. If you put it outside, you will eat five bodies; if you put it inside, you will eat five internal organs. People who are released, or suffering or embarrassment, or mental weakness, or in the wind, or in the chest, all cause death. "
Legend has it that there are three or four ways to cast spells, and the different methods can distinguish the levels of spells: one finger is extended, the other is thrown with halberd, and the third and fourth fingers are thrown in parallel, with different consequences. One or two fingers are easier to cure, while three fingers are more difficult to cure. If it is three fingers and four fingers, it is almost hopeless, and the one in the middle is dead.
About a month before his death, an enchanted person could see the living soul of an ancient woman burying her face in a gift, which was called "urging happiness" in the jargon. After that, if the patient can't get effective treatment, the patient will definitely die within one month. In the treatment of Chinese medicine patients, Chinese herbal medicine may still be effective, but in serious cases, only those who put their own methods can find a way out.
In the past, there were many ways to distinguish between true and false. According to Volume 6 of the Record of the Immortal Hall, a real woman has vermilion eyes and red, green, blue and yellow stripes on her abdomen, abdomen, arms and back. If not, it's fake. A real wife doesn't have a cobweb ant nest at home. A woman puts a basin of water in the middle of the room every day, and spits out the worms in the basin to drink water when no one is around, otherwise it is fake. A real woman can have mountains in the mountains, or put a penny in the clouds to make dragons dance, or put a cloak in the sky to make birds fly, but it's not true. After all the real women are killed, there must be worms in their bellies. If not, it is fake. Before Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, the Miao people caught the old woman and killed her. Later, somehow, they didn't dare to kill her again and sold it to the people, so the technology of releasing the old woman spread.
Generally speaking, magic is only circulated among women. For example, the magic girl has three women, one of whom must learn magic. The disease also spread to other women in the village. If a woman goes to her aunt's house to learn needlework, she may secretly cast spells and suddenly say to her casually one day, "You won!" " Symptoms are bound to appear after the woman returns to China. If she wants to treat this disease, she has to turn to her aunt, who will learn from her uncle in exchange. If she doesn't learn, she will never recover. Because everything is done in secret, the rituals and spells taught are unknown to outsiders.
Every woman has her own altar, which is hidden in a mountain stream, a stream or a hidden place at home. She needs to protect it very carefully, because once the altar is discovered by outsiders, her life will be gone. Legend has it that a woman set up an altar at home in ancient times, and one day she bathed the idol with hot water when no one was around, only to be seen by her youngest son. The next day, the old woman went up the mountain to cut firewood, and the child didn't know the stakes, imitating her mother to bathe her idol. As a result, the idol with the soul of an old woman was scalded to death because the water temperature was too high. Besides, the woman who worked on the mountain suddenly felt short of breath, knowing that there must be something wrong with the altar, and did not dare to delay at all. She hurried home to take a shower and change clothes, ready to lie in bed, but an hour had passed.
According to legend, a woman can stay sick for three years, win a Niu Yi Year and win a tree for three months. If she doesn't release the method, she will get sick herself. If she doesn't release the method for three years in a row, the method bug will hurt the person who stores the method. Among animals, only dogs can't do magic. The old woman doesn't eat dog meat because she is afraid of dogs.
Usually, an unfortunate woman will be accused of being a witch because she is suspected. An invisible and intangible wall separates her from everyone. Just like living under a transparent canopy, she has never turned over and met. After a long time, she also died and gave up any attempt to pay off her name. She is more and more afraid of meeting people, just as people are more and more afraid of meeting her. She grows old with cursing and cursing year after year, crying night after night makes her eyes red, and tears when she sees the wind. Not long after, however, another unfortunate woman was accused of being a new witch, because no one forgot the saying "there is no way to build a village without magic", which is a rule left by our ancestors. The end of this woman will be poverty and loneliness.
Women's falling hole
A girl went into a state of obsession after experiencing some life changes. Her face is as bright as a peach blossom, her eyes are as bright as stars, her voice is as sweet as silk and bamboo, and her body exudes a fragrant aroma. She keeps cleaning tables, chairs and halls every day, keeping a shabby home spotless. Enter a state of disengagement. According to the local story, the girl has promised herself to God, and she lives in a happy fantasy all day. Her sweetheart is a god who saves people from fire and water, so she is no longer tempted by any secular man. She just needs to protect her beauty carefully and wait for her god to choose an auspicious day to greet her. It is doomed that her life will be free from all the worries of having children and looking forward to her husband's eagerness and jealousy, and no secular man will think of using his marriage to save this girl who is tempted by God's illusion. Although the happy girl died with a smile when that day came, she kept her good looks until today's legends and records. ......
Fairy (witch)
A glib woman is crazy first, and then becomes a witch. Witches don't have to learn or teach. They just set up an altar, put a bucket full of millet and inserted a pair of scissors. Some can be officially opened without anything. The way to perform witchcraft is to set up a seat in front of God. The wizard sits on the seat and covers his face with a blue silk towel. Focus on the deceased, ask the deceased to speak, and talk about other people's family affairs, children's illness, and the length of people traveling in a half-singing way. When it comes to sadness, the speaker's eyes are full of tears, and the listener is naturally sobbing. After practicing witchcraft, the son of God, who has been recognized by everyone, was neutralized and relieved the woman's subconscious, so she won't go crazy again. As usual, when practicing witchcraft, she is very clever, and at least some unexpected strange situations are very coincidental. Because of the crazy propaganda beforehand, people in this city know a lot, and almost all of them want to practice witchcraft. There will be many old ladies patronizing, and business will be good. Although wizards can make a lot of money, I usually don't care much about what I get. I was appointed by God as an agent. If I don't become a wizard, I will be punished. It is almost necessary to set up an altar.
Being a witch for a long time naturally becomes a profession, which makes the operation more artificial. The curiosity of the world has now shifted to another woman who recently set up an altar. If the witch is honest, she will quit the altar and still resume her original career, either as a wet nurse, a small business or taking care of children. As a secular person, she became one of the three aunts and six grandmothers. She used her own identity to visit local people with status to accompany the old lady to chant Buddhist scripture, or, as in A Dream of Red Mansions, cooperated with Aunt Zhao to plot a little magic, buried it underground and put it on a pillow to make the "enemy" suffer. Or even do a media job and get a little pay for walking. Children are sickly and deadly, and they are worshipped as adopted sons. If a child has night terrors, he will "turn off the black" with an egg. After a spell, they took it to the street at dusk, shouting the children's names all the way, "Is Babel back?" Another replied, "Babel is back" and shouted all the way home.
When you get home, hold the child's hand and spit on his head, and things will be easy. Local people who practice witchcraft are called "fairy mothers". Her job is "the medium between people and ghosts", and her masses are women and children. The real significance of her works is that after she was recognized by the society as the agent of God, the madness stopped. Local women are really miserable and homeless. They pinned their hopes and dreams on her Buddhism and relied on her for comfort. Such people will naturally order a small prescription from time to time, which can cure children's night terrors and diaphragmatic food. From the usual point of view, it is extremely insoluble. From the analysis of modern psychology, its emergence and social significance have its inevitable reasons. A scholar with little knowledge wants to get rid of superstition and knock it down. Denying this "prophet" just shows the "ignorance" of another person.
In his book, Mr. Shen Congwen wrote: Women in Xiangxi produce witches, witches and cave-fallen women at three age stages-poor and old, easy to become witches, around 30 years old, easy to become witches, 16 to 23 years old, beautiful and introverted, easy to die in caves-and the hysteria of these three women constitutes a part of the mystery of Xiangxi. There is a touching tragedy and a touching poem behind this mystery.
This article is basically taken from Phoenix in Border Town written by Jiang Zidan and Phoenix written by Shen Congwen.