The art of body delivery

The foreigner's hypnotism, can hypnotize the living, but not the dead, can be hypnotized for a few hours, but not for months. And Qian and Xiang have a kind of corpse that will be sent by people to do magic, manipulate the dead body, let him go on the go, told him to stop on the stop. Can last several months, but it seems that this is not the general reasoning that can be explained. It is also not the same thing as the unusual saying that the corpse is formed by the touch of something outside or an electrical effect.

Whenever the spring water rises, the merchants in Guizhou, who make their living by trafficking timber, always knit the timber into a raft and ride it downstream to Changde, Hunan Province. When they arrived at their destination, they would break up the raft and sell it, and then return home by land. Among these people, some people fell ill and died. Because of the long distance, it is not easy to pick up the corpse back, and the people accompanying them often use the art of sending the corpse back. This method must have two people who can work effectively. Its practice is one person in front of the guide, the other person with a bowl of water followed by the hands. A Bowl of water must be enchanted with a charm. Water does not pour wine, the dead body does not fall. The dead body is no different from the living, but can not speak, and walk slightly different from the living. People walk he walks, people stop he stops, purely following the pace of those two people. At night, when the hotel owner saw such a gesture, he knew that it was the guests who sent the corpse, so he prepared another room for them. Because at that time, this kind of corpse was delivered to people from time to time on the road, the area of the inn is specially equipped with rooms to entertain them. At night, the corpse deliverer slept on the bed, and the corpse stood by the door.

This is what the Xiang proverb says: "Three people stay in the hotel, two people eat. The day before the corpse arrives home, the corpse must send a dream to his family, and the family will prepare the coffin and clothes. When the corpse arrives home, it will be standing next to the coffin, and when someone with Taoist skills pours the bowl onto the ground, it will immediately fall. At this point, it is necessary to collect the body quickly, otherwise, the body will immediately change and show the form of decay. If he had been dead for a month, the corpse would take on a decayed state for a month, and so on for the rest. In the autumn of Yitong Jiyou (1909 AD), Yang Kuanfu from Liuan County was a guest in Hunan Province and had seen someone deliver a corpse outside Changsha City.

Governor Huang Zesheng of Qianyang was stationed on the Sichuan side. One day, outside the barracks suddenly loud noise, Zheng was busy with what happened, and a sergeant reported: "someone unloading dead bodies from here to pass, the body can walk by itself." Zhang thought it was new and came out to watch. He saw a man with a cloth streamer leading the way, and the corpse was following behind him, confused. Zheng asked the man holding the cloth to stop and asked what was going on.

The streamer holder said, "This man died on a journey, so he could not prepare a coffin, so he used the law to drive him home to collect himself." Zhang asked, "By what method?" The streamer bearer replied, "I make my living by this method, so how can I tell others my secret." Zheng asked again, "How far is the dead body's home from here?" The streamer bearer told him, "It will take about four or five days to get there." "Then what do you do when you stay at night? v "Just put him by the door." Sawasen had the corpse examined, and it was indeed dead. At that moment, the whole barracks came out to watch. Hundreds of people had witnessed that event for themselves. Zhang later asked the locals, who said, "This is a common occurrence and not surprising."