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What to put on the bed to ward off evil spirits what to put on the bed to ward off evil spirits

1, wood Tibetan incense: this is no special light can be used directly in the best incense, but not cheap. As long as you take out the burning, can make all the evil far away, in Tibet is also a rare good thing, sometimes it is to take it to the opening of the Tibetan, the same effect is very good, and then go to the field feeling uncomfortable, take out some of them in the house a sprinkle, while reciting the Buddha's name can be.

2, broomstick: broomstick used to ward off evil techniques are generally leaning against the bed, guarding the flame low people sleep peacefully. Or to the suspected evil objects to whip. Reminder: bamboo broom best, plastic worst. Mops do not work.

3, red paper: red paper used to be mainly used to write Spring Festival couplets, as well as in the gift packages to others to stick a small long strip to make a seal. In fact, the sealing statement and the door to paste red paper (although the words written on it) is used to bless and ward off evil spirits with. In folklore, you can often see red paper is cut into small strips of stickers on the door, bed, pig pen cattle pen door, car, windmill and so on used to pray for blessings and evil blessings and peace. The original source is red paper represents the blood sacrifice, that is, with livestock or even the enemy's blood smeared on the important position to deter the enemy evil, and later evolved into red paper.

4, rice: in fact, rice to ward off evil claims from the five grains to ward off evil, the legend of the five grains can town ghosts and evil (because of the legend of the five grains to put the coffin that the deceased will not come out to haunt), especially glutinous rice, by the Hong Kong zombie movie rumors of God. To this day, in the western Fujian Hakka custom there will be rice, soybean/black bean, tea, salt, copper money, five kinds of red cloth wrapped together to do the custom of peace talisman. In practical application, rice is used to give easy ghost dreams of people and to give small children peace of mind is particularly useful.

5, mirror: mirror because of its reflective effect, so that many people in folklore used when called feng shui items to ward off evil spirits, the use of hanging lintel or window frames above the door to deal with the door in front of the evil spirits. Because of this, sleep is especially taboo when the mirror on their own.

6, scissors: to understand why scissors become a custom often used to ward off evil factors, in fact, in ancient times, the carpenter's inkwell, jade, five feet and tailor's scissors are commonly used to ward off evil, and then later, the cook used to kill the scissors chopper is also because of its blood stained scissors were used to the evil with the evil of the evil and was applied to ward off evil. Commonly used to deal with nightmares, exorcism.