Is it true to chase corpses in Western Hunan
4hw.org: chasing corpses in Western Hunan belongs to the witchcraft culture of the Miao nationality. We often see it in zombie movies. As early as the Qing Dynasty, there was a rumor about chasing corpses, that is, the chasers used witchcraft to take the corpses from other places to go home and make peace. Although chasing corpses sounds like no scientific basis, some people believe that chasing corpses without wind or waves must have happened. Now let's go Get up and explore!
The theory of chasing corpses in Western Hunan is also called moving spirit, walking shadow and walking corpse. It belongs to the zhuyouke family of Maoshan, which originates from four counties in Yuanling, xuanxi, Chenxi and Xupu, Western Hunan. Because most of these areas belong to mountainous areas, it is difficult for vehicles to pass through, so there is the industry of chasing corpses. Generally, when the corpses are not corrupted, the magicians rush back to their hometown for burial.
The corpse is usually covered with a large black corpse cloth, with a high felt hat on his head and several yellow papers with spells written on his forehead hanging on his face. In front of the bodies in black cloth, there was a body chaser with a gong in his hand. The corpse chaser is beating the small Yin Gong in his hand and leading the group of corpses forward. In his mouth, he usually shouts: 'dust to dust, earth to earth, life is so hard. Zombies and Zombies follow me and go back to their hometown. '
The corpse chaser didn't play the lantern, but waved a soul taking bell in his hand to let the night passers-by avoid and inform the family with the dog to lock the dog. If there are more than two corpses, the body chaser will string them one by one with straw rope, one every seven or eight feet. There is another saying that the reason why the body chaser can drive the corpse is that he can continue to walk like an ordinary person at night by using a Miao herbal medicine applied on the snout and mouth of the corpse in the middle of the Yin, but he can not speak and think, and can obediently follow the direction of the body chaser.
Since ancient times, there has been an industry of chasing corpses among the people in Western Hunan. Those who study this industry must have two conditions: one is bold, the other is good health. Moreover, we must learn from our teachers. The body chaser never collects his disciples. The apprentice's parents first make a note, and then the body chaser must have an interview. Generally speaking, it depends on the age of 16 and the height of over 1.7 meters. At the same time, there is a very special condition, and the appearance should be ugly. The body chaser first asks the examinee to look at the sun in the sky, then rotates, and then suddenly stops, asking you to distinguish the East, the west, the north and the south. If you can't distinguish them, you can't be hired. Because you don't know the East, the west, the north and the south at this time, it means that you can't drive the corpse at night. Then, the body chaser asks you to find something and bear the burden. Because the corpse is not a living person after all, it can't climb on a steep slope. One by one, the body chaser has to carry the corpse on the high slope. Finally, there is an interview, which is that the body chaser put a piece of Tung leaves on the grave mountain of the deep mountain, and let you go alone to get them back in the dark. Only in this way can you prove that you are competent for the courage of the body chaser. If these three passes smoothly, you will be able to become an apprentice of the body chaser.
And the body chaser must learn thirty-six skills before he can chase the body. The first kind of skill is the dead body's "standing and standing". That is to say, the dead body should be able to stand up first. The second is "walking", that is to say, let the corpse stop and walk freely. The third is "turning", that is, the corpse can turn when walking. In addition, there are "downhill work", "bridge work", "dumb dog work" and so on. "Dumb dog skill" can make the dogs along the way not bark when they see the body. Because the corpse is afraid of barking, when the dog barks, the corpse will be shocked, especially when the dog bites, the corpse has no resistance. A corpse will be bitten to the skin. The last kind of skill is "soul returning skill". The better the soul returning skill is, the more souls there are for the dead body. It's very easy to catch up with the dead body.
The corpse chaser is usually at home, just like the ordinary farmer, "he works at sunrise, but he doesn't rest at any time.". Only when they received the task of chasing the corpse did they dress up and go to chase the corpse. Although they work in the industry of chasing corpses, they are taboo to the term "chasing corpses". Therefore, the experts asked them to drive away the corpses and said: 'master, please go for a walk or a walk'. If the corpse chaser agrees, he will take out a special yellow paper, and ask you to write the name, date of birth, date of death, gender, etc. of the dead on the yellow paper, then draw a symbol, paste it on the yellow paper, and finally hide the yellow paper on yourself. The clothes of the body chaser are also very special: no matter what the weather, he should wear a pair of straw shoes, a green cloth long shirt, a black belt around his waist, a green cloth hat on his head, and a bag of talismans hidden in his waist bag. The first thing the master taught his disciples was to draw symbols, which were very strange. They were painted on yellow paper with a red pen, like words or pictures. When encountering an accident on the way, they hung the strange symbols on a tree or door facing west, sometimes burned ashes and swallowed water.
There is also the saying of "three drives, three does not drive" in Western Hunan. Those who have been beheaded (with their heads sewn together), hanged and standing dead in cages can be driven. The reason is that they are all forced to die. They are not convinced to die. They both miss their hometown and their relatives. They can use magic to hook their souls and put them into their bodies with spells. Then they can use magic to drive them to climb mountains and mountains, or even go back to their hometown by boat and water.
Those who died of illness, those who died voluntarily by hanging their necks in a river, and those who were incomplete due to thunder and fire could not be driven away. Among them, those who died of illness have been dead for a long time, and their souls have been hooked by the impermanent ghosts to the king of hell. The magic can't call their souls back from the gate of ghosts. The souls of those who cast the river and hang the neck are 'replaced'. (i.e. being caught as a substitute) and they may be in the process of handover. If new spirits are brought in, will the old spirits not be replaced? In the punishment of the dead, the king of hell hates the people who do not cherish their lives and deliberately live lightly. Even if they don't do evil in their lives, they generally don't want to consent to their immediate reincarnation, but they need to wait for the people who have the same experience of life lightly before they can approve them Reincarnation. This may be a long process, so some ghosts who died of suicide will make some means of immortality, make some people lose their mind and commit suicide! That is, the ghost who borrowed the above to find a substitute.
In addition, those killed by thunder are all sinful people, while those killed by fire are often incomplete in flesh and skin, which can not be rushed. In fact, it can also be understood. According to the secret school, there are two kinds of people who don't have a middle Yin body (the transitional period of death), one is a great good person whose soul immediately ascends to heaven and is listed in the immortal class. The other is a great villain whose soul falls into 18 layers of hell, suffering from all kinds of sufferings and has no time to go out. Most of the people who die in a horizontal way are evil karma, so the performer can't do anything about it
The above is a summary of the rumor of chasing corpses. Some netizens have given different explanations. They say that chasing corpses in Western Hunan is to make corpses with lime, and then tie them with bamboo poles and carry them back to Western Hunan. As for whether those charms are true, I don't know. In any case, if people do this, the villages passing by will let you stop. Otherwise, who will let you stop.