Chapter 35: The Soul-attracting Chicken (above)
This underground passage occupied by countless wild rats, connected to a cave like an underground hall, the floor of the hall buried many boulders, surrounded by many of the same structure of the passage, I never thought that in the stone walls of this cave, but carved with the yellow temple of the “yellow fairy goddess” of the idol.
Carved in the stone wall behind this picture, in our discovery of this stone wall like natural cui stone screen has been noted, but these yin carving age, stone wall flaking fuzzy, if not with the sleeve to wipe off the floating soil dust is difficult to recognize.
At this time I stood in front of the stone wall, through the dim light, a glance noticed that the weasel weird evil face, this yellow skin head woman body portrait, another person look at, the heart will be born immediately annoyed nightmare. Due to the unexpected, I nearly dropped the hand of paper cigarettes on the ground, hurriedly pinched the end of the cigarette with his fingers, put on his mouth and sucked hard, so that their own surprised and unexpected mood a little smooth down.
Poor quality tobacco mixed with withered leaves, smoke on a mouthful of smoke, almost like a chimney when the stove smoke, will be beside me Ding Sishen choked a cough, she waved her hand to drive away the smoke: “Can’t you smoke a little less? If you develop a smoking habit at such a young age, it will be difficult to borrow in the future.” I think all the advantages of Dinsi sweet body, the only small disadvantage, is that she can not tolerate other people smoking, whenever she saw me and the fat man smoking, she always have to say that comrade Lenin quit smoking things, comrade Lenin when he was young and living in poverty, and addiction to smoking is also very big, once Lenin’s mother said to him: “Dear Vladimir Miyirich, you can not smoke a little less cigarettes?” The mother of a great man says different things. She doesn’t say, “Can’t you stop smoking? She doesn’t say, “Can’t you stop smoking?” She says, “Can’t you smoke less? This is how great a philosophical sentence ah, both gentle and kind, but also pushed himself from others, not worthy of being a woman among women, after being his mother such a long-winded said, comrade Lenin never smoked again.
At this time, Dinsi sweet again mentioned this, persuade me to the great man as an example, so that I quit smoking, but my mind is all on the look at the “yellow nun” on the portrait, on her words at all did not pay too much attention to, eyes staring at the carving on the stone wall, half self-deprecating and half to cope with answering the Dinsi sweet: “well …… is not to quit smoking, I think it is not difficult to quit smoking, I recently this half a year has been quit more than a hundred times …….”
Ding Si-Tian saw me answer absent-mindedly, but was fully concentrated in looking at the stone wall, then followed my gaze to look over, the stone screen on the carving pattern is extremely pang refute complex, the yellow immortal nun that the demonic image only accounted for a corner of it, to be clear to her to see that the repulsive face of the weasel face, but also ate a shock, with a hand to cover his own mouth, nearly screamed out.
The painting of the weasel face woman, form and behavior is very peculiar, as if in the mouth chanting to do what evil magic, in front of her put a large box of ancient patterns of esoteric, the box mouth half-open and half-covered, in the middle of the stone wall, is lying straight a woman, the woman wore a mask on her head, wearing a gorgeous scaly clothes, look at her lying posture is extraordinarily stiff, it seems to be a well-dressed corpses.
In the female body and the “yellow fairy godmother” below, there is a like a chicken like a pheasant called unknown long-feathered bird, is holding a fuzzy human form upward ascension, I in the northeast mountainous region of the insertion of this half a year, although the location is remote, but also saw a lot of folk retained in the folk at the bottom of the mysterious folklore, I look at this odd-looking bird, and found that its form is very much like the Daxinganling folklore in the “attracting the soul of the chicken”.
Legend has it that after the death of a person into a ghost, ghosts, return also, its essence to the sky, meat to the ground, blood to the water, veins to the zephyr, the sound to the thunder, the action to the wind, the eyes to the sun and moon, the bone to the wood, tendons to the mountain, the teeth to the stone, ointment to the dew, the hair to the grass, the breath of the gas into the spirit of the dead and returned to the netherworld between.
People live all rely on a breath unceasingly, once the breath stops dead, the mouth of the breath of the Yang people immediately fell into the earth of the vast, in this concept of custom, someone died at home, to immediately slaughter a rooster, and smear the corpse with chicken blood, rumor has it that the soul of the rooster can be carried by the soul of the deceased to make the soul ascension, to avoid falling into the cycle of reincarnation again by suffering, in the Tuen Mun, I was inserted into, there are jumping gods, that is, jumping shaman dance, and to do the “dead”, the “dead”, and to do the “dead”, and to do the “dead”. There are also to the dead to do the “soul of the chicken” of the godmother, God, in the movement of these people have been rectified, in the opening of a critical assembly, they explain the crime, I was able to know.
At this time the fat man saw me and Ding Si sweet look endless, will also come over to join in the fun, the three of us see this natural cui stone screen on the content of the bizarre and absurd, it is difficult to peep where the mystery is, just by the eyes of the speculation, it seems that this natural cui stone screen on the record, it is the “yellow fairy godmother” to perform evil arts, using a similar to the “soul-attracting chicken”. “Soul attraction chicken” or “tie paper bird” and so on the law, in some caves in the mountains, will see similar ancient bird totem, is commonly known as the local people big feathers to send the dead bird, which can only attract the soul of the dead bird, the masked female corpse souls from the The soul of the female corpse wearing a mask, from the netherworld, with the intention of resurrecting it, and the “yellow fairy goddess” that the box, probably the source of the evil law.
This is very different from my previous guess, it seems that this is surrounded by countless bizarre legends of the “Hundred Eyes Cave”, is definitely not a tomb robber bandit “mud will be” hidden treasure place, they took great pains to dig out the box under the Yellow Skin Grave transported to the depths of the prairie, is it even for a long dead ghost of a thousand years ago, the dead ghost of a thousand years. Is it to invoke the soul of a dead ghost that has long been dead for thousands of years?
I think of this heart can not help but hit a sudden, but also more and more curious, look at this natural cui stone screen age is very far away, think that the masked female corpse must be the ancient people undoubtedly, what exactly is she? Where is she now? “Mud will” after the Hu bandits came here, in the end what happened? About the hundred eyes cave near the missing people and animals of the legend is related to it? There …… are all kinds of thoughts in the mind, but the more you think about it, the more you don’t have a clue.
Fatty coldly slapped his thigh: “I say old Hu, I suddenly remembered something, you see this buried these stones like what? The more I look at them, the more familiar they look, have we seen them somewhere before?”
My attention is focused on the “yellow fairy godmother” on the box, is guessing that the box contains what rare things, think half but was interrupted by the fat man’s words, along the way to those buried in the ground on the stone looked at a few eyes, and suddenly remembered that in the Daxing’anling mountains of the many families, all the old house, the corner of the house are set with a round stone, some buried half with dirt, some buried half with dirt, some buried half with dirt, some buried half with dirt, some buried half with dirt. Some buried in half with soil, some simply placed directly in the house, we just settled in the mountains, this practice of putting stones in the house is very incomprehensible, think there is no significance at all, and then mixed with the Tuen Mun mountain people, after many inquiries to learn that the original these stones are left before the liberation of the people in the early years of the people are used in this way to ward off evil spirits, the ancient books mentioned: “buried stone four corners, no ghosts at home.” These stones are used to suppress ghosts, in the northeastern folk, zombies, hanged ghosts do haunted and harmful things of the legend is very much, living in the barren mountains in the family, in order to keep the peace, and gradually formed this custom, as for the specific beginning of what era, now there is no way to prove it.