What is ancient "witchcraft"? Why was it forbidden in ancient times?

The Sui and Tang Dynasties in ancient China should be the most popular time for witchcraft. There are many ways of witchcraft. Here's one? Ghost cat? A case of witchcraft.

In the eyes of the ancients, cats were too close to evil spirits and poisonous methods that harmed people. Looking through ancient books, we can find that there were many incidents in Sui and Tang Dynasties. Ghost cat? Keith.

One of the most famous cases happened in Emperor Wendi's Palace? The case of Dugu Tuo? .

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The ghost cat brought trouble: Queen Dugu and Su Yang's wife both suffered from strange diseases.

One day, Emperor Wendi's wife, Empress Dugu, suddenly became seriously ill, so Emperor Wendi ordered someone to treat the doctor too much. After seeing the queen's illness, the doctor reported to the emperor nervously: this is not an ordinary disease, but a ghost cat. ? Cure too much also told Emperor Wendi that the wife of Minister Su Yang also suffered from the same ghost cat disease.

So-called? Ghost cat? , is a kind of left witchcraft, through the curse, make the cat into a ghost, do what people want to do but can't. At first, Emperor Wendi of Sui didn't believe this, but now seeing that both the Queen and Yang's wife were seriously ill and the doctor had a strong argument, they had to start to doubt. He soon thought of a person: Dugu Tuo.

Dugu Tuo is the half-brother of Queen Dugu. This man has always liked deviant art, which still has a family style, because his mother and wife are good at it.

Before the Emperor asked Dugu Tuo's brother Dugu Mu to tell him not to play the left-wing skill of ghost cats, but Dugu Tuo's reply was that he was not good at it, which was obviously denied. I can report to Wendi that the people who play witchcraft in Dugu Tuo have never stopped. Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty was helpless, demoted Dugu Tuo and sent him away from the capital. Out of sight, out of mind. But soon he heard Dudu Tuo chattering and complaining a lot.

At present, the queen is ill, and two things are in one place. Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty was finally angered and left his servants to shoot Gao Ying, Yan Na Su Wei and Cheng Dali Yang Yuan to thoroughly investigate the case.

Key figure: handmaid Xu Anni.

This task force was extremely efficient in handling cases, and soon found a key figure: Xu Anni, the handmaid of the Dugu Tuo family. I don't know by what means, Xu Anni soon confessed.

It turned out that Xu Ani began to keep cats and ghosts when she was a handmaid to Dudutu's mother, and later came to Dudutu's house to keep cats and ghosts. Ghost cat can transfer other people's property to herself according to her instructions, and in exchange, ghost cat also has requirements, that is, she wants to hurt the stolen family. It's like. Devil's contract? .

Every night in the middle of the night, Xu Ani secretly gets up, prepares offerings and burns incense to worship ghost cats. Because I was a mouse when I was a child, I worshipped cats when I was a child, suggesting that mice were sacrifices to cats. One day, Dugu Tuo suddenly became addicted to alcohol and wanted to drink two cups. He muttered to his wife. And his wife has always hated him, just say? No money to buy? Du Tuo had to ask Xu Ani to use her ghost cat skills to get some money to buy wine at Su Yang's house. Xu Ani got the instructions from Master and prayed secretly. A few days later, the ghost cat arrived at Suyang's house, and the money naturally transferred to Dugu Tuo's house.

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A few days later, Dugu Tuo said to Xu Ani in the garden. You ask Ghost Cat to get some pocket money from my sister, Queen Dugu. ? Dugutuo also had the cheek to find himself a special one? Full? Reason:? My sister used to give me money when I had no money. Of course she doesn't object to doing it now, and it's more convenient. ? Xu Ani naturally obeyed his master's orders.

After trial, the task force found that Xu Anni's confession was completely in line with reality, and Yang's wife, Queen Dugu, suffered from ghost cat disease. But the evidence that she said this alone was still too insufficient, so the task force asked her to make a live call for the ghost cat.

Live demonstration: calling for ghost cats

At midnight, Xu Anni's performance began. I saw that she first put a bowl of delicious porridge outside the palace gate, then read a spell, picked up a spoon and knocked on the edge of the bowl a few times, muttering to herself: Catwoman, don't live in the palace; Catwoman, don't live in the palace. ? Suddenly, Xu Ani's eyes were glassy, his eyes were straight and his face was blue. The whole person seems to have been pulled by something.

In this way, the planning team unanimously determined that Xu Ani's confession was true and reported it to Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty. Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty consulted the courtiers, and they all agreed to kill Dugu Tuo. Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty showed mercy outside the law. In order to be the younger brother of the Queen, Dugu Tuo was spared the crime of beheading and demoted to Shu Ren. Dugu Tuo's wife was even worse and was sent to a temple as a nun. The illness of Queen Dugu and Mrs. Su Yang may gradually get better. That's it? The ghost cat case of Dugu Tuo? Finally, I was in a daze

Shortly thereafter, Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty issued an imperial edict: storing ghosts and cats, bewitching, charming and other wild families, and banishing the frontier. ?

Doubts abound: Is it a ghost cat or a frame-up?

There are many doubts about this case now. Xu Anni's process of calling a ghost cat is like a performance. She's probably just putting on airs. After all, no one has ever seen a ghost cat appear (does the history book give the specific process of ghost cat committing crimes? Code? Then we don't know). It is hard to say whether Xu Anni is suspected of perjury in this case. Judging from the records in the history books, it seems to be direct. Crime? She was the only one.

In addition, although Emperor Wendi of the Sui Dynasty has always been known for his simplicity, his eldest brother, Dugu Tuo, was so mixed that no one even gave him wine to drink, which was a bit excessive. Moreover, from not being able to buy wine to being a thief, it is a bit urgent to harm people. In other words, there are great doubts about the confession of the key figure, Dugutuo, or there are problems in the records of the people who tried the case.

In a word, it's hard to say whether the Dugu Tuo case was planned or not. I deliberately took the ghost cat as an example. In any case, cats are miserable as backers in this political struggle.