蛊
（蛊）
gǔㄍㄨˇ
◎ A legendary artificially cultivated poisonous insect specially designed to harm Person: ~Confused.
◎ Parasites in human abdomen.
◎ Things that poison people: ~ Poison.
Note that the description is legendary
The method of making poison (super detailed) 2006-08-29 15:27 The Yin Ruins oracle bone inscriptions have used the way of thinking to observe objects and take images. The production of poison is represented by a pictographic "illustration", that is, a variety of poisonous insects are placed in a "dish"-shaped container. The methods of making poison in later generations are mostly similar to this. Based on the methods spread in classics and folklore, the methods for making poison are as follows.
1. Take various poisonous insects and seal them in a container, and let one of them eat the rest. Then, the living insect is called Gu, and the toxins are extracted from it. "The Book of Geography" says: "The method is to gather a hundred kinds of insects on May 5th, ranging from big ones to snakes, and small ones to lice, put them together in a container, and let them eat each other. If there is one kind left, keep it, and the snake will It is called snake voodoo, and the louse is called louse voodoo. It kills people because it eats into the human abdomen and eats its five internal organs. If it dies, its products will be transferred to the home of the voodoo owner. ""Compendium of Materia Medica" "Chongbu 4" Li Shizhen Collection Explanation and Tang Dynasty. The original words of Chen Zangqi from the dynasty said: "...put hundreds of insects into an urn, and if you open it for years, one insect will eat all the insects, which is called Gu." Zheng Qiao's "Tongzhi" of the Song Dynasty also recorded: "The method of making voodoo is to put hundreds of insects in a dish for each other to eat, and the remaining ones are voodoos." Yan Yonghe of the same era also recorded in "Jisheng Fang": "There are several types of voodoo poisons recorded in the classics. People in the mountains of Guangzhong made it by storing insects and snakes in containers and letting them eat each other. If there is one thing left alone, it is called a poison. "In the historical records after the Song Dynasty, there are many records of poisonous poisons. Following this theory, for example, Lou Ying of the Ming Dynasty said in the "Compendium of Medicine" that "people in the mountains of Guangdong and Guangxi use snakes, centipedes, centipedes, shrimps, toads and other insects, and store them in the same container, so that they can eat each other and win." They are sacrificed to spirits, and their poisons are taken and mixed with vegetables, fruits, etc. in order to harm others, in vain to seek good fortune, in order to seek wealth and honor, and people may fall into them, suffering from various symptoms, or many people may die in the course of their years.” As well as the situation of the poisonous poisons of strong women and animals recorded in the second volume of "Chiya" and the situation of the poisonous poisons left by Zhongmiao recorded in Lu Ciyun's "Dongxi Xianzhi" of the Qing Dynasty. Golden silkworm Gu was particularly popular in the Song Dynasty. Cai Sui of the Song Dynasty said: "Golden silkworm poison originated in Sichuan, and spread to Huguang, Fujian and Guangdong." ① Zhang Hong's "Southern Yunnan News" of the Qing Dynasty also said: "There are many animal poisonous poisons in Sichuan, and golden silkworm is the most powerful. Killing people's lives, capturing their souls and stealing their wealth and silk, and sending them away when they are rich is called marrying the golden silkworm. "It is said that the golden silkworm Gu is shaped like a silkworm, and its whole body is golden. People in the Tang Dynasty believed that the golden silkworm Gu "bends like a finger ring and eats brocade, just like silkworms eating leaves", so it is also called "brocade-eating insect" ②.
●Case 33 The method of making Golden Silkworm Gu: 12 kinds of poisonous animals such as snakes and centipedes are buried at the crossroads. After 49 days, they are taken out and stored in the incense burner. This is the Golden Silkworm Gu. It is said that this kind of poison is the most difficult to eradicate when it is not afraid of fire and gun. There is a legend in Longxi County, Fujian, that the golden silkworm is an invisible thing that can do things for people. For example, if you want to plant rice seedlings, you first insert one and show it to it, and it will plant the entire acre of rice seedlings. It is diligent in sweeping, and the house of a person who raises golden silkworms is very clean. As soon as you enter the house, kick your foot on the threshold, and when you look back and see that the sand and soil on the threshold suddenly disappear, you will know that this house raises golden silkworms. According to local legend, the Golden Silkworm Gu likes to eat people and will eat one person every few years. At the end of the year, the owner must settle accounts with it. If there is a surplus, he must buy someone to feed it. Therefore, when settling the accounts, if the owner breaks a bowl, he will break 20, and tell it that it will lose money without interest. He will buy someone to feed it next year. The Nanjing people's view is similar to this. They describe raising golden silkworms as raising spoiled children. The golden silkworms are usually placed next to the urinal or in a place where no one goes. Don't let anyone know, otherwise they will be exposed and cause trouble. A fatal disaster. The golden silkworm can shape-shift, sometimes taking the shape of a snake, a frog, or a foot-tall child wearing red pants that jumps around the house and underground. Families who raise golden silkworms rarely get sick, their livestock grow up easily, there is no risk of death, and they can make a fortune. At the end of each year, the owner will settle accounts with the Golden Silkworms behind the door, saying how many bowls and spoons were broken this year and a lot of losses. If you say that you will gain this year, people in the family will gradually die, and those who raise Golden Silkworms will have no good results. This is called "Gold nibbles the tail."
When this happens, people should marry the golden silkworm in time. The method is to wrap a bag with silver, pollen and incense ash (i.e. golden silkworm Gu) and place it at the intersection. Anyone who sees the silver eyes will pick it up naturally. If someone takes a wallet by mistake, the golden silkworm Gu will follow him (Huixicheng: "Chinese Folk Customs", Guangzhou: Guangdong Tourism Publishing House, 1989). ■ ●Case 34 The preparation method of Zhuang snake poison: Choose the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to catch mice, butterflies, lizards, scorpions, centipedes, and poisonous bees in the wild (which are made from poisonous fungi in the mountains and woods that rot after rain) Giant bee, black all over, with a sharp mouth, 3 cm long), wasp (the kind that builds nests in trees), blue snake, white snake, green snake (a kind of venomous snake, green, often in the grass or trees Living on the grass, also called bamboo leaf green), wind snake (a kind of venomous snake, with black spots on the body and a triangular head, also known as cobra), krait (commonly known as gold-clad iron, with yellow and black rings and spots on the body), etc. There are many poisonous animals (and Zhang Jiebin's "Jingyue Complete Book" of the Ming Dynasty said that only three kinds of poisons are enough: "It is said that people in the deep mountains of Guangdong use poisonous snakes, centipedes, and shrimp toads in the same container on the Dragon Boat Festival, and let them Eat each other, and when one thing survives alone, it is considered a poison, also known as a poisonous poison.) They are all placed in a clay pot, and they are allowed to bite and devour each other until the last one is left alive. The living animal was suffocated to death, dried in the sun, and then added with toadstools, datura flowers and other plants and its own hair, and ground into powder to make poison. If the last remaining living animal is a snake, it is called a snake vood, and so on, including butterfly voodoo, rat voodoo, bee voodoo, scorpion voodoo, centipede voodoo, lizard voodoo, etc. Store these poisonous poison powder in a large bowl and place it under the bedside of the breeder. The breeder must also light an incense stick at the bedside and insert it in the big bowl on the ninth night of each month in the lunar calendar after everyone is quiet ( Or use a bamboo tube containing rice to put incense inside), then face the Gu bowl and kowtow in worship, close your eyes slightly, and recite the incantation: I tell you to listen, grandpa, I will kneel down to worship you, and I will always be respectful. Yes, please help me if I have trouble in the future. If so, repeat it three times. Do this every month, without making any mistakes, to show your sincerity. On the day when the poison is taken, it will be used to harm people, which is very terrible (according to the author's fieldwork notes taken in Wuming County and Mashan County, Guangxi, from 1989 to 1992)
●Case 35 Pumi The traditional method of making voodoo: Put snakes, bees, butterflies, etc. in a clay pot and let them cannibalize each other. What is left at the end is used to make voodoo medicine, including snake voodoo, bee voodoo, butterfly voodoo, etc. , if given to others, it will cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, and eventually death (Song Zhaolin: "Witch and Witchcraft", Chengdu: Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House, 1989, p. 231). ■ ●Case 36 The method of making poisonous insects by the Susu people: During the Dragon Boat Festival every year, go out to catch poisonous insects in the wild, put them in old pottery, let these small insects kill each other, and the last remaining one can be used for breeding. The breeder throws away the dead poisonous insect, puts the food in a pottery vessel, wraps a red cloth with five-color thread around the mouth of the jar, and feeds it with the owner's saliva every day. After more than a year, it becomes a poisonous insect ("Yunnan"). Social Survey Report on the Lisu Tribe and Fugong in Gongshan", Library of Southwest University for Nationalities, edited in 1986, printed version). ■
In some ethnic minority and Han areas along the Jinsha River in Yunnan, there are also some legends about cultivating voodoo:
●Case 37 Methods for preparing voodoo along the Jinsha River in Yunnan : They are very pious about raising gu. It is said that before raising gu, the main hall must be cleaned cleanly. All family members must be clean and vegetarian. They must kneel in front of the ancestral shrine and pray to the ghosts and gods in the center of the main hall. , dig a big pit and bury a large urn with a big mouth and a small belly. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, go to the wild and catch any 12 kinds of reptiles, usually poisonous snakes, eels, centipedes, frogs, lizards, earthworms, big green caterpillars, mantises... But be careful not to take flying animals. We don’t want any animals that can run on four legs, just some poisonous reptiles, and they must be caught on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, otherwise we won’t be able to grow Gu. After putting these 12 kinds of reptiles into the urn, the host, big and small, must pray to the ghosts and gods once in the morning and evening, and when praying, they must not let outsiders know. If outsiders find out, the voodoo they have raised will be taken away by wizards using magical methods and used by wizards. The whole family that raised the voodoo will die. Even if the voodoo is not taken away by the wizard, after it becomes a voodoo, it will immediately harm the owner. .
During the year, many poisonous insects devoured each other in the vat. The more poisonous ones ate the less poisonous ones, the stronger ones ate the weaker ones, and finally only one poisonous insect remained. After swallowing the other poisonous insects, this poisonous insect also became a poisonous insect. Changed form and color. Legend has it that there are two main types of Gu raised here: one is the dragon Gu, which is similar in shape to a dragon, and is probably transformed into long reptiles such as poisonous snakes and centipedes; the other is the unicorn Gu, which is similar in shape to a unicorn, and is probably transformed into frogs and lizards. Transformed into short-bodied reptiles (Huixicheng: "Chinese Folklore", Guangzhou: Guangdong Tourism Publishing House, 1989)
●Case 38 How to make poison from the Yi people in Sichuan: The legendary snake of the Yi people in Sichuan The method of making the poison is to hang the black-tipped snake upside down on a tree, dust it with a thin stick, and let it swing. 9 earthen bowls are overlapped and connected below. The saliva, foam and blood flow out of the snake's mouth into the bowl, and the infiltrated water is collected. The venom in the 9th bowl is dried and used for later use. Put it in cold rice, cold water, cold tobacco pole or wine and give it to others. Once you eat snake voodoo, you will feel abdominal distension within two days, followed by dull abdominal pain (this indicates that small snakes have initially formed), and severe abdominal pain after two months (indicating that many small snakes have grown up and bite people to suck blood for a living. After half a year, you can It grows to be as thick as chopsticks and five or six inches long, and can eat a person's liver), and the pain subsides after eating eggs (it means that the snake no longer bites people's intestines, but eats eggs, so the pain subsides). The patient particularly wanted to eat vegetables, but could not eat and vomited violently. After eating sour, cold, soybean water, fried noodles, chicken, sow meat, and sheep meat, the abdominal pain, bloating, and vomiting became more severe.
Those who suffer from body weight loss, yellowish complexion, poor consciousness, slow pulse, low body temperature, dry stools and diarrhea, and blood and water if not treated can die within half a year, and some may take more than a year to die. The method of making leech is to kill a chicken, cut it open in the place with the most leeches, and the leeches will automatically concentrate on the chicken (flat body and black and yellow are better), then dry the leeches and grind them into powder for later use. Give them cold water, cold rice, cold tobacco sticks, and cold wine. Some people also say that the leech powder is also mixed with blood black cucumber, egg shells, and human earwax. It means that leeches originate from the roots of Xuewu, and they complement each other; egg shells contain calcium acid, which can restrict and slow down the poison of Xuewu; human earwax mainly enhances the toxicity. Once leeches are eaten, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea, loose strings, or bloody stools, and vomiting will occur within 7 days. After eating sour, cold, soybean water, chicken, sow meat, sheep meat, and fried noodles, abdominal distension, Abdominal pain and vomiting are more severe, and the symptoms are the same as those caused by snake voodoo. After thirty or forty days, the person becomes thin, confused, and has a dry mouth. After three or four years, the person may die, and the course of the disease can last up to 10 years. According to legend, the method of making cowhide gum is to soak dried cowhide in water until maggots are born, then dry and grind the maggots into powder for later use; the second method is to cut off the skin from several trichelium parts of the cow and bury it deep in the soil, and then take it out after it rots. It is dried and ground into powder. Serve it in cold food. After eating cowhide poisonous poisonous poison, vomiting, white blisters, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, and bloody diarrhea occurred. Severe cases can lead to death within two months, and the course of the disease can last about 10 years. The symptoms are the same as snake voodoo and leech voodoo (Azi Ayue: "Yi Medicine", Beijing: China Medical Science and Technology Press, April 1993, pp. 214-216).
2. Take the feces of artificially cultured poisonous insects as poison. For example, Volume 10 of "Lingwai Dai Da Da" written by Zhou Qufei in the Southern Song Dynasty, "Gu Poison" says: "(Song Dynasty) Dao Gengchen, east of Qinzhou City There was a pulp seller who was poisoned by animal poison. He was defeated and fell asleep. He said that his family was poisoning. The woman with disheveled hair was sacrificed at night to make a plate of rice porridge. Locusts, nymphs, butterflies and hundreds of insects came from the house to eat them. They sent arrows, which was medicine. "Tingzhou Fu Zhi" also has similar records, saying: "Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, hundreds of insects are caught, sealed in earthen jars, and made to eat each other. When the year passes, there is still one insect, shaped like a silkworm. , feed it with three or four pieces of gold and maple leaves. Use it several times a year to remove the insect excrement and put it in the diet to make people suffer from abdominal pain. " also said: "This kind of golden silkworm Gu is said to eat four inches of Sichuan brocade. The southerners use the excrement of many animals to poison people in their food, and the people will die." 3. Take various poisonous insects and raise them in a dish to use their saliva as a poison. Volume 1 of "Book of Guizhou" says: "The poison comes from the dish, and the poison is hidden in the utensil... Miao Zhong who wants to get rich, many animals, anacondas, centipedes, toads and other poisons are put into the dish, and their saliva is dripped into the wine and food to feed People..." According to legend, the Miao family's Gu-making method is to gather five kinds of poisonous insects, including centipedes, scorpions, snakes, spiders, frogs, etc., every Dragon Boat Festival. There are also five kinds of insects listed with different names, and they are sealed in an earthen vessel. When it is closed, it chants its secret incantation, and after a considerable period of time, when it is opened, the saliva and arrows of an insect that remain are the poison①.
●Case 39 How to make toads of the Zhuang people in western Guangxi: The toads raised by the Zhuang people in western Guangxi are a very powerful poison. The method of making toads is to choose the twelve o'clock insect, which is auspicious. More than ten kinds of animals, including insects, ants, cicadas, wasps, poisonous wasps, earthworms, butterflies, scorpions, lizards, centipedes, spiders, blue snakes, white snakes, green snakes and toads, were put into a clay pot, and then contained A squirt of wine was sprayed into the clay pot, causing them to devour each other. If the toad is no match for the other animals and dies first, choose another toad and throw it into the clay pot, and let them bite and devour each other until the toad is no match for the other animals. Then dump out all the dead animals, leaving only Toad in clay pot. The clay pot holding the toad is covered with red cloth, and the mouth of the pot is tightly wrapped with five-color silk thread. Usually, the clay pot is placed under the breeder's bedside, and the breeder's saliva is used to feed it every day. Every six months, a lot of poison is put into the clay pot for the toad to eat. After more than a year, the toad becomes a gu. After the toad becomes a gu, it is really not easy to kill it! No matter how hard you step on it, beat it to death with a stick, or stab it with a knife, it will not die unless you use If a gold or silver needle pricks it, it will die. Usually, breeders can find ways to make toads obey their will. If you put a small bamboo pole against the tailbone of a toad, the toad will spit out a black mist from its mouth. If it touches the human body, the skin will be itchy and red tumors will grow, which will gradually turn black into abscesses. , Occasionally yellow water flows out; sometimes the mind is in a coma and cannot tell the direction. In addition, the saliva of toad is also a good poison. If it is mixed with food, it can make people's abdomen swollen, unable to eat and starving to death. Normally, if a toad touches human skin, it will turn black and swell into abscesses. When the sores are opened, roundworms will crawl out. If it touches the head, all the hair will fall off, the scalp will be itchy, abscesses will appear, yellow water will flow, and roundworms will crawl out (according to the author's field survey notes in Guizhong, from 1989 to 1994). ■
There are also records about toads in historical books. For example, Volume 19 of "Zi Buyu" by Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty tells a very interesting story about toads: "Zhu Sheng Yiren, Gongshu At that time, Xifang Yan, the governor of Qingyuan Prefecture in Guangxi, was in the office. The governor invited his colleagues to have a drink. Everyone saw Zhu Sheng squatting on the top of his head, brushing it and falling to the ground. At night, the toad climbed onto the top of Zhu's head again, but Zhu didn't know that someone else was brushing it off. All the food cores in the table were destroyed and disappeared. When Zhu returned to bed, he felt itching on the top of his head. The next day, all the hair on his head fell off. The top of the tomb is like a tumor and is red. The skin suddenly bursts out, and a frog sticks its head out from inside, staring at it. Its front two legs are on the top of the scalp, from the waist down, and the pain is unbearable. Doctors can't cure it. An old servant said: "If you prick it with a gold hairpin, you will die." The results of the test showed that it was a toad, but Zhu Sheng was fine, except that his parietal bone was sunk and he looked like he was lying on his back. " 4. Both poisonous insects and their feces are used as poisonous poisons. Chen Guojun has a detailed record in the article "The Release of Gu of the Miao People": "At noon of the Dragon Boat Festival every year, it is said among the Miao people that five poisons and hundreds of insects appear. At that time, Miao women went to high mountains to catch various kinds of five-venomous insects, put them in a small altar, and placed it in a dark place. They did not lift the lid of the altar for many years, and the insects in the altar killed each other until only one insect remained. It’s the poison.” Another saying goes: “The Miao woman waits for the insects in the altar to die, takes out the dead insects and the excrement made by the insects, grinds them into fine powder... and puts the fine powder into food. If you eat it by mistake, you will die if it is not treated for a long time. "People in Guangdong and Guangxi are good at this, and the Zhuang people still use this method to make poison ①
●Case 40 The preparation of Zhuang malnutrition poison. Method: The preparation method of 疳蛊 (also known as laying eggs, releasing rickets, and releasing bees) is to capture small animals such as centipedes, ants, cicadas, wasps, poisonous wasps, earthworms, centipedes, and water roundworms during the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May. , put them in an airtight container, and let them kill each other until only one insect remains. After that, use the insect in the container and the feces left behind, plus the hair of the breeder, dry it in the sun, grind it into powder, store it in a large bowl (or wrap it with oil paper cloth), and offer it to the God of Plague. In front of the altar (the altar of the God of Plague is usually placed in the west corner of the side room, with a brick on the ground and a large bowl or oil paper bag placed on the brick). The breeder must light an incense stick in a big bowl on the ninth day of every month (or use a bamboo tube containing rice, put an incense stick in it, and put the bamboo tube next to the oil paper bag), and bow to the God of Plague. To show sincerity, if this happens month after month, it will become a poison of its own and can harm people (according to the author's fieldwork notes in Guizhong, the time was 1989 to 1994).
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5. Take various poisonous insects and put them in a pot, and then kill them all. After that, the dead insects will grow bacteria and become poisonous poisons over time. Yongfu County Chronicle also says: "On May 5th, I went to the mountain stream, spread new cloth clothes, jewelry, silver hairpins and other items on the ground, put a basin of water next to it, and the women sang and danced naked to ward off the poisonous lizards and insects. Then pour water into the wet ground, and small insects will appear, such as silkworms, and the poisonous insects will be ready." "Qingyuan Prefecture Chronicles" Volume 3 says: "The method of making poisonous insects is to kill about a hundred small and large poisonous insects, the largest ones are snakes. If the small ones are lice, put them together in a container and let them eat them all. At the end, the big worms will also die, turn them into water, soak them in the straw sandals, and do this seven times, and then bury the straw sandals towards the north. Five-colored fungi grow in the shade, then dry and grind them into fine powder, add a little of ●Poison: The Illusion of Wealth and Power
172 to the food, and if people take it, they will suffer harm. "Jingyue Quanshu" also records: "Lingnan people take poisonous snakes and kill them, cover them with grass, sprinkle them with water, let the bacteria grow for a few days, take the fungi as powder, and mix them with wine to poison people." To this day, among the Zhuang people, Legend has it that the way to make epileptic poison is to bury snakes in the soil and take the fungi to poison people.
6. The milk swallow is suffocated to death, then slowly dried, and then undergoes special processing - adding certain poisonous plants and casting a spell to become the milk swallow vood ●Case 41 Milk swallow Gu production method: It is also called boring medicine in Longzhou, Napo, Pingxiang and Jingxi areas. The specific preparation method is to select more than 3 baby swallows from the same nest and immerse them in water and drown them. If any of them die together in a ball, they are considered to be a pair of male and female birds. Their inseparable state of being entangled until death is the gene of the medicine. Therefore, roast the pair of baby swallows over slow fire and grind them into powder, plus some intertwined wild vines (must be in a clockwise direction, and the antidote is the opposite) and their juice, some double-pedicled fruits and human body fluids. Gu medicine is prepared from various medicinal materials such as hair (information collected and provided by Ling Shudong, Jingxi County Zhuang Museum, Guangxi, October 1990). The Zhuang Yao people in Shanglin, Guangxi also have swallow Gu. The preparation method is similar to this. They also take the newborn baby swallow to the intersection and let it fly away. The sucklings that fly to the west can be used to make voodoo. The sucklings that fly in other directions are not used. These sucklings are suffocated and dried over slow fire to make voodoo. (Information provided by Luo Wenwu, Shanglin County, Guangxi, 1991 April of the year). ■ The Lisu people in Yunnan have a poison called Lian Yao, which is even more interesting. It refers not only to swallows, but to any bird. If it dies while flying on the ground, scrape some of it from the place where the bird died. Powder, this is the "love medicine". If you give it to the person you like, your heart will never stop falling in love with you. This medicine can only be cured by eating cat claws ①
7. Keep it secretly in a bamboo tube Venomous animals such as snakes and toads are used to poison their brains and eggs. This kind of poison consciousness is prevalent among the Bai, Lisu, Pumi and Yi people in the Nujiang area of ??Yunnan Province to varying degrees, especially in The Lisu people are the most numerous. Most of the people who keep voodoo are young and beautiful women. Legend has it that this kind of Gu will turn into a handsome man called a "medicine ghost" at night, and often live with them as a ghost couple. Those who keep poison must often poison others (especially children), otherwise they will feel uncomfortable or even die of illness, in order to serve the "medicine ghost" and maintain a relationship with the "medicine ghost" ②.
8. Take all the poisonous insects and put them in an earthen pot, and wait until they kill each other. Finally, only one insect remains. Suffocate this insect to death, dry it with other dead insects in the sun, grind it into powder, and it will become a poison after a long time. Poison●Case 42 How to make the Zhuang Incense Burner Gu: During the Dragon Boat Festival, choose centipedes, lizards, spiders, scorpions, blue snakes, white flower snakes, green snakes, wind snakes, golden krait, silver krait snake, wild rooster snake (head There are 12 kinds of poisonous animals, including crests, crows, and sounds like pheasants. They often live in caves or grass.), poisonous bees, etc., put them together into a clay pot, first place a piece of gauze paper on the mouth of the pot, and then close the lid. , in the dead of night, quietly go to the crossroads to dig a pit about two feet and five inches deep, bury the pot in it, then solidify the soil, and take it out at night seventy-seven forty-nine days later. These 12 poisonous animals and their own hair are dried, ground into powder, and stored in an incense burner to become incense burner poison. In the minds of those who raise Incense Burner Gu, the Incense Burner Gu has a soul, and they must be treated with respect and without any sign of neglect.
Therefore, the incense burner Gu should usually be placed under the bedside of the breeder. On the ninth night of each month in the lunar calendar, after the dead of night (usually between 3 o'clock and 5 o'clock in the morning), the breeder must hold the incense burner in both hands reverently and go to the wild. When no one is around, light 3 sticks of incense and put it in the incense burner. Then face the west, bow your head and knees, close your eyes slightly, clasp your hands together, tremble your lips, and recite the mantra silently: "Father, father-in-law, I worship you now, and if there is any future, Difficult, I hope you can protect me." After reciting, he kowtows his head and repeats this 9 times. When he is done, he turns around and goes home. He is not allowed to look behind him in the middle of the journey. After arriving home, put the incense burner back to its original place, and do this every month without making any mistakes. When lighting incense and worshiping the furnace, be careful not to let others bump into you. It is said that if you are really bumped into by others, the voodoo will no longer work and will come out to cause trouble. When ordinary people encounter a voodoo cultivator and light incense and worship the furnace, they must shout to scare away the voodoo cultivator's spells. Otherwise, they will be infected by the voodoo and will die within 7 days after returning (according to the author) Fieldwork notes taken in Guizhong, from 1989 to 1994).
9. Designate a certain animal, such as a snake or a toad, and keep it secretly in a dark place. The flowers, rhizomes, seeds and juices of highly toxic plants are collected and fed daily, or even fed with ready-made poisonous poisons. This thing contains strong toxins and becomes a poisonous poison. For example, the loach poison of the Zhuang people is soaked in water with bamboo leaves and poison. If the loach is put in it, it becomes a poisonous loach poison. If you cook loach and eat it with guests, after eating, there will be three or five loaches moving around in your stomach, sometimes rushing up the throat, sometimes going down the anus. If you don't know how to treat it, you will definitely die. In foreign countries, people mostly use this method to make poison. For example, in Japan, people choose dogs or cunning foxes; in Africa, people raise cruel sea turtles, owls, baboons, etc.; in Europe, there are cats, dogs, foals, poultry, hares, rats, toads, and weasels. Wait, place them in a remote place and give them names. The way of feeding them is very unique. Usually, the owner personally feeds them with milk paste made of milk and flour or chicks, and sometimes mixes the owner's food into the food. A drop of blood so that they become part of their owner in a sense, and these little monsters are believed to be spiritual. But how do they usually use these little monsters? In the book "Witches and Witchcraft" ①, Dr. Margaret Murray quoted the 1615 church trial of the witch Sylva Néviron of Orleans, France. The records handed down stated: "The witches dare not leave the house without asking them, and they have to tell them how many days they will go out, whether it is 3 days or 4 days. If they think the time is too long, the witches do not dare to go against their will. Get on the road. When they want to go out to do errands or have fun, they have to figure out what the outcome will be. If the little demons are happy, they can go out without worries. But if they are in low spirits and look sad, they dare not leave the house." Demons only obey the instructions of their masters, and there are special spells for calling these little demons. The spells always contain the name of God. Generally, they will return to their masters after completing their magic, that is, releasing poison to harm people. People trust these little monsters "more than they trust God, because the little monsters bring him more benefits, while asking God for help gets nothing."