Do you believe in witches?
The Gu I know is because I am a Miao girl and grew up in a Miao village, so I understand this matter relatively well. If you think Xiangxi is the kind of person who knows how to play tricks, you are totally wrong. Only in this kind of authentic Miao village is it possible for someone to speak Gu. They speak Miao, and our local dialect is dialect. But this kind of Miao village speaks Miao, which is completely in English and Chinese, and it is impossible to understand it.
And there may only be one or two families who know it. Just like there are not many magicians in the village, it is impossible for everyone to know it, and they are not popular with others. Everyone is afraid and afraid of it. Hate, the people who feed Gu are also very pitiful. The voodoo feeders are not necessarily women, there are also men. Anyway, there seems to be no gender distinction at all. It’s just that women dress up weirdly, so others may pay more attention to women. Because they are poor, they will come out to beg for food around the Spring Festival. Generally, they will give to people like this without daring to offend them. I remember one year, two authentic Miao girls came to our house to beg for food, and we gave it to them. Our family was eating vegetables at that time, and one of the Miao girls pointed her finger at our vegetable bowl, and her finger reached the top of the bowl.
After they left, grandma immediately poured out the bowl of food. Poison cannot be put on your body for no reason, because it is a kind of poison, or something like a parasite, which has to be eaten. , usually something powdery, hidden in the fingernails. It cannot be placed across the Internet or thousands of miles away. It must be close. This is the main reason why Miao girls can put it on their lovers. This is also why Gu It didn't spread over a large area.
Miao people generally do not take the initiative to attack unless they are really murderous. Most of the people in this kind of Miao village are very hospitable and will not poison people when they meet them. And like us As far as I know, I have never entered their village, so there is no point in going all the way. We call their village Laohoushan. You can imagine how remote it is.
I have only seen one case of killing people by poisoning. The father of a good friend who went to school with me when I was a child was killed. Her house is very close to my house. Even though there is a small dirt road across the way, I can hear loud voices. arrive.
Her father was killed because she found a husband from the back mountain. Because she was a little disabled, she could only find someone from a poor place to come to her. However, when that husband came first, her whole family It feels a bit silly, so I don’t want to.
I agreed not to, so I invited that stupid husband and dad over for a drink, and the wine was poisoned. Later, within a year, he died. The situation and the poison were so harmful. : The old custom of the Zhuang people calls it "swollen". After poisoning, the symptoms include abdominal distension, rumbling, constipation, and in severe cases, one ear is often blocked. This kind of same.
Her family is very strong. She kept hiding her illness from the villagers. In fact, if she had told him earlier, everyone would have been able to help him. In the end, he was about to die. He was seen in all the hospitals. Her father worked in a cement factory. A young official had a daughter who was still working as a nurse in the city. In the end, there was nothing she could do. Her mother revealed that she was possessed by a poison and asked for relief. It was already too late. .
Don’t say you don’t believe it. Even among us locals, there are many people who don’t believe it. Because if they believed it at that time, they would not have died.
Shortly before his death, her wife went to beg the man who planted the poison to relieve the poison. He refused to admit it until he died, and refused to help anymore. In fact, it was already too late and there was nothing he could do to help.
We all know that there was a lot of discussion in the village at that time. My grandma came to see the symptoms and said it was too late. It was already in her stomach. Her stomach was bloated like something. When she went to the hospital, nothing could be checked. Yes, it stands to reason that this was all in the 1990s, so medicine is not that backward!
In short, these are all the poisons I know. All words are guaranteed to be true by personality and can be verified.
Also, I still remember a friend who said that there was a voodoo feeder in Houshan Miao Village. Every once in a while, he would put the voodoo on a tree and kill the tree, otherwise the voodoo would Eat the master.
I think it may be that Gu is a kind of creature that needs to be fed with food.
There is nothing else. Although there are many stories about being poisoned, because I have not personally witnessed it, I can’t just talk nonsense, so forget it. Poison is commonly known as "grass ghost" in the Miao area. According to legend, it attaches itself to women and harms others. Those so-called women with poison are called "grass hags".
After investigation, some Miao scholars believe that almost the entire Miao people believe in voodoo, but the degree of it varies from place to place.
They believe that in addition to the above-mentioned emergencies, there are some more difficult-to-treat diseases such as long-term cough, hemoptysis, black complexion and weight loss, as well as visceral discomfort, bowel sounds, bloating, loss of appetite and other symptoms. Chronic diseases are all bewitched. If the disease is sudden, you can ask the so-called poisoner to take it back by calling a village; if it is a chronic disease, you need to ask a wizard to "exorcise the poison". This terrifying poison is not exclusive to the Miao people.
Voodoo has been widely spread in the Jiangnan region of ancient China. Initially, voodoo refers to insects born in utensils. Later, moths born after grains rot and insects born from the deterioration of other objects are also called voodoos. The ancients believed that voodoo had mysterious properties and huge toxicity, so it was also called poisonous voodoo. It could enter the human body through food and cause diseases. The patient seems to be confused by ghosts and is confused. Most of the poisonous insects mentioned by the pre-Qin people refer to naturally occurring mysterious poisonous insects.
The long-term superstition of poisonous poison has developed the concept and practice of creating poisonous poison to harm people. According to research by scholars, during the Warring States Period, people in the Central Plains region already used and taught methods of making poison to harm people. The legendary method of making poisonous voodoo is generally to put a variety of highly poisonous poisonous insects such as snakes, scorpions, scorpions, etc. into the same object, so that they can eat and kill each other. In the end, the only surviving poisonous insect is the voodoo. . There are many types of voodoo, and the ones with greater impact include snake voodoo, dog voodoo, cat ghost voodoo, scorpion voodoo, toad voodoo, insect voodoo, flying voodoo, etc. Although Gu is a tangible thing on the surface, since ancient times, Gu has been considered to be a mysterious thing that can fly, change, shine, and come and go without a trace like a ghost.
The vood maker can use magic to control the voodoo insects to bring various diseases to the target and even kill them. The ancients had no doubts about the poisonous poison's ability to cause diseases. In the eighth year of Qingli (1048), Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty promulgated the book "Qingli Shanzhi Prescription" which introduced the method of treating poisonous poison. Medical books such as "Qianjin Prescription" and "Compendium of Materia Medica" all contain detailed analysis of the symptoms of poisonous poison and medical prescriptions for treatment.
In the conceptual world of the Miao people, there are snake voodoo, frog voodoo, ant voodoo, caterpillar voodoo, sparrow voodoo, turtle voodoo and so on. When the poison multiplies in the person with the poison and cannot find food, he will attack the person with the poison (the poison owner) and ask for food. If the poison owner feels uncomfortable, he will release the poison to harm others. When releasing the voodoo, the voodoo master said in his mind: "Go find someone to eat, don't pester me!" The voodoo will automatically go to that person. Or from dozens of meters away, with a flick of your finger, the Gu will fly towards that person. Some people even say that if the Gu takes a fancy to someone, that is, if it falls in love with someone, it will ask its owner to release the Gu to the person. Otherwise, the Gu will kill its owner. Therefore, those who have poison have to let go.
There is such a story about letting go of poison among the Miao people: Once upon a time, there was a mother who had a cup, and the cup fell in love with her son. Of course, the mother did not want her son. However, the cup bit her so fiercely that she had no choice but to agree to release the poison to harm her son. When the mother said these words to her cup, her daughter-in-law happened to hear her outside. The daughter-in-law hurried to the edge of the village and waited for her husband to come back from cutting the grass. She told him about the incident and told him not to eat the bowl of eggs her mother had fried for him when he returned home. After finishing speaking, the daughter-in-law went home first and boiled a large pot of boiling water. When he got home after a while, his mother took the bowl of eggs and asked him to eat them. My daughter-in-law said that the eggs are cold and should be warmed up before eating. As he spoke, he opened the lid of the pot, poured the bowl of scrambled eggs into the pot of boiling water, covered the lid and pressed it tightly, only to hear something struggling and swinging in the pot. After a while, there was no movement. When I opened the lid of the pot and looked, I saw that it was a big snake that had been scalded to death. These so-called ways of letting go of poison are of course nonsense.
As for what Gu looks like, no one has seen it except for the legend passed down from generation to generation, and of course it is a myth. Although it is said to be a myth, some women of the Miao ethnic group are deeply framed by this concept. People believe that "gu" is only possessed by women, and can only be possessed by women and passed on to the next generation of women, not men.
For example, if a young man "Wandering" meets a "gu" girl who he likes and marries without the consent of his parents, then their next generation, all women, will have to pass on the gu from their mother. , and passed down from generation to generation.
In Chinese classics, the practitioners of voodoo are not limited to women. Why do the Miao people think that only women can play voodoo? This is related to the social and cultural traditions of the Han and Miao ethnic groups. In the witchcraft belief of the Han people, there is only good and evil, and there is no gender opposition. Among southern ethnic minorities such as the Miao, the legacy of cultural gender opposition formed when matriarchy was replaced by patriarchy is much stronger. This opposition is manifested in witchcraft beliefs, that is, male shamans who occupy orthodox positions have become The party that maintains social order. The witches who once dominated the matriarchal society have become the destroyers of order and are falsely accused of being the inheritors of black magic. All natural and man-made disasters that male wizards cannot explain or resolve are blamed on witches. Thus, the absurd conclusion that women have bewitches was deduced. Because poisoning is considered a serious criminal activity that involves seeking money and killing people, it has historically been listed as a target of severe crackdowns.
There is a provision in the "Han Code" that "those who dare to poison people or order them to abandon the market"; laws from the Tang, Song, and even the Ming and Qing Dynasties listed the use of poisonous poison as one of the most heinous crimes, punishable by death. The government's punishment for so-called bewitchers is extremely cruel. Kuang Lu of the Ming Dynasty said that Ti Tuoqian, a "dongguan" in the Zhuang area, caught a bewitched woman and buried her body in the ground with only her head exposed. Then she poured wax juice on the bewitched woman's head and set it on fire. In the Miao area, although women who are falsely accused of having poison will not be in danger of their lives, the false accuser will be discredited, be discriminated against and criticized, cause great mental pain, and even die unjustly. Those who are considered to be poisonous suffer discrimination and humiliation, and even relatives and friends are afraid of interacting with them. No matter which family has a sick person, as long as the wizard says that they have been struck by a poison, the sick family will yell and curse. It is tacitly understood who is being scolded, and the person being scolded also understands it, just like the shouting at the beginning of this article. Families with voodoos had no choice but to swallow their anger, because if they defended themselves, it would be tantamount to revealing that they had so-called voodoos in their homes, so they had to suffer such humiliation for nothing.