Related content of witch culture

In western Hunan, the "flower cave girl" is a tribal unmarried woman who can cry down the leaves of a tree, go to a cave without eating or drinking for a few days, and then come back without drinking or eating, and then die a few days later. Tribal people think she went to marry the tree god, well god, so these girls did not get married, but after the death of others to do the funeral, and the flower cave girl's family to them not only do not do the funeral, but also to do the wedding to show that the wedding of the joy.　Falling Flower Cave Woman into a state of obsession, her face as bright as peach blossoms, eyes as bright as stars, voice as pleasant as silk and bamboo, the body emits a kind of cozy fragrance. She kept wiping tables and chairs and sweeping the halls every day, cleaning up an originally dilapidated home to make it spotless. She has entered a realm of unearthly splendor. According to the local saying, this girl has promised herself to God, and she lives all day long in a happy fantasy. Her sweetheart is not eat earthly fire but save people in the fire of God, so she is no longer for the world of any man, just carefully protect their own beauty and serenity, waiting for her God chose a good day to marry her. She was destined to live a life free from all the troubles of childbearing and husband-hoping and jealousy that Mma had experienced, and no earthly man would ever think of using his marriage to save the girl who had been seduced by the vision of her god. Of course, when that day came, the happy girl died with a smile on her face, but she kept her pretty face until today's legends and records.

As for the falling hole, it is really a tragedy of human and divine intricacies. The local custom was the extreme suppression of women in sexual behavior, which became the highest morality. This morality was formed due to the fact that the military man became the ruler of the whole of the place. Because of his duties, the soldier must often leave his family and go out, and the experience he gains with women outside the home must strengthen this morality in order to maintain his sexual exclusivity and facts. Therefore, the local people believe that the ugliest thing is a woman's infidelity and a man's hearing that a woman is having an affair. If a woman is free from any family constraints and voluntarily liberates herself, unaffiliated bystanders can catch her naked and parade her through the streets to show that she has abandoned her **** with the public. Xianniang is a part of the Chu witch culture, referring to a woman who can speak well, who first develops madness, and then becomes a witch and performs witchcraft. Witching do not have to learn, there is no way to teach, just set up an altar, put a flat bucket, bucket filled with grain, insert a pair of scissors. Some do not need anything, can be officially open for business. The way to perform sorcery is to set up a seat in front of the god, the practitioner of sorcery sat down and covered his face with a green silk scarf. Heavy off the dead, trust the dead soul to speak, with half humming and half singing way, talk about other people's family affairs, children's diseases, travelers situation. When it comes to sadness, the talker is snotty, and the listener is naturally more hush-hush.

After the implementation of witchcraft, has become recognized by all the son of God, the woman's subconscious, due to the neutralization of the role of the lifting, so it will not be crazy, the first implementation of witchcraft, and as usual, and very effective, at least some unexpected oddities, said very coincidental. Because of the publicity given to the madness beforehand, many people in the city knew about it and practiced witchcraft as a last resort, and the old women who patronized it must have been very numerous and their business was very good. Although you can get rich by practicing witchcraft, you usually don't care about how much you get, but you are appointed by God as an agent, and if you don't practice witchcraft, you will be punished, and you have to set up an altar.

Practicing witchcraft for a long time, naturally, it gradually becomes a profession, and when you do it, you do it more often. Xianniang can also exercise a little magic, buried in the ground, placed on the pillow, so that the "enemy" to suffer. Or she can even play matchmaker to get a little bit of money to pay for her footsteps. If a child is sickly and has a long life, he will worship her as his godson. If a child is frightened at night, she will use an egg to curse her and then take her to the street at dusk, calling out the child's name all the way. The other one replied, "Babao is back," and kept shouting until he reached home. After arriving home and holding the child's hand dipped in saliva and wiped the child's head, things are done. The local people who practiced witchcraft were called "Xianniang". Her job is to be a "medium between man and ghost" and her audience is women and children. The real significance of her work is that when she is recognized by the community as an agent of God, her madness stops. The women of the region, who are in dire straits and have no place to turn to for emotional support, place their hopes and dreams in her spells and rely on her for comfort. This kind of people naturally occasionally also know a little Dan Fang, can cure children night terrors, diaphragmatic food put parasites is an ancient black witchcraft, is part of the Chu witch culture. More than two thousand years ago, there was a record of parasites in the Spring and Autumn Period (Zuo Zhuan). Zheng Qiao of the Song Dynasty wrote "Six Books of Tongzhi", and even recorded the method of making parasites, to the effect that all kinds of poisonous insects will be concentrated in the same vessel, allowing them to attack each other and devour, and the last one to survive is the compulsion, i.e., the King of Poisonous Insects. Throughout the ages, the government has been for the manufacture of poisonous acts have very strict criminal law, so put compulsion witchcraft is completely in a state of secrecy, through the ages, although the number of records on the number of compulsion is not less, is always a number of words, and the language is not detailed, which makes compulsion woman (grass ghost woman) and compulsion become more secretive. Qianzhou Hall Records: "Miao women can kill people with witchcraft, the name is put grass ghosts. When there are grudges and suspicions of the release, put outside the compulsion to eat five snakes, put inside the five organs to eat. The person who was released, or the pain is embarrassing, or the shape of the spirit of depression, or the wind in the Pigao, or gas bloating in the chest, all to the death of the art also."

Legend has it that there are three to four ways to put compulsion, to the different ways to identify the high and low magic: stretching a finger to put, halberd two fingers to put, fused three fingers and four fingers to put, the consequences are different. One or two fingers released by the compulsion, the compulsion in the people easier to cure, three fingers released by the more difficult to cure, if the three fingers four fingers released, almost belong to the incurable disease, in the person must die.

People who have been parasitized will die a month or so before they can see the soul of the parasitical woman covering the front to deliver the goods, which is known in the jargon as "hypnotic music". After that, if the patient can not get effective treatment, the patient will die within a month. Treatment of patients in the compulsion, light or herbal medicine can still work, heavy non-compounders to solve the compulsion himself to have a way of life can be sought.

There are many ways to recognize the compulsion of the old woman. According to the "Yongsui Hall Zhi - Volume VI" records, the real compulsion mother-in-law eyes such as vermilion, belly arm and back are red, green, green and yellow stripes, there is no is false; real compulsion mother-in-law home does not have any cobwebs ants, and the woman should be placed in the middle of the hall every day a pot of water, while no one will be released compulsion spit into the pot of pots of pots of water, otherwise it is false; real compulsion mother-in-law can be in the mountains for the law, or to put the bamboo Penny for the dragon in the clouds, or put the cloak in the sky as a bird flying, can not be is false. If she cannot, she is a fake. After all the real parasites are killed, cut open their abdomen must have parasites inside, if not, it is fake. Before the Qing Jiaqing, the Miao people caught the compulsion to kill, and then for some reason, do not dare to kill but sold in the Han folk, the compulsion of the art to be passed on.

Generally speaking, the compulsion is only passed on in the women, such as a compulsion woman has three women, which must be a woman practicing compulsion. There are also passed on to other women in the walled village, such as women to go to the house of the compulsion to learn women's red, by the compulsion of the woman, may be secretly casting law, suddenly on a certain day inadvertently said to the woman: "You got it!" The woman will go home after the disease, in order to cure the disease, must turn to the compulsion, compulsion will learn compulsion as a quid pro quo, do not learn the disease will not be cured. Because everything is done in secret, the rituals and incantations are taught in a way that outsiders can't get details about.

Each witch has her own altar, hidden in a mountain stream, a stream or a hidden place in her home, and she needs to be very careful to protect it, because once the altar is discovered by outsiders, the witch's own life will be in jeopardy. Legend has it that there was a witch who set up an altar at home, and one day when no one was around, she used hot water to bathe the god's puppet, but was unexpectedly seen by her young son. The next day, when the woman went to the mountain to cut firewood, the child did not know what was at stake and followed his mother's example to give the god puppet a bath, and as a result, the water temperature was too high and scalded the god puppet with the soul of the compulsion of the woman to death. Besides, the compulsion woman in the mountain labor, suddenly felt the heart shortness of breath force can not support, the heart understands that must be compulsion altar problems, do not dare to have a little delay, quickly home bath dressing, clean up when lying in bed, but an hour has been dead.

Legendary compulsion woman put compulsion in a person, can be self-protection without disease for three years, in a cow, can be guaranteed for a year, in a tree, can be guaranteed for three months, such as do not put compulsion, compulsion woman herself to be sick, for three consecutive years will not be compulsion out, compulsion is not allowed to eat will be harmed to store compulsion people. Among the animals, only the dog can not put compulsion, compulsion woman is afraid of the dog also do not eat dog meat.