In ancient times, all dynasties believed in witchcraft, which was often used for blessing and fortune telling; After civilization developed to a certain extent, witchcraft was banned, because later rulers began to realize that witchcraft was mostly used to harm people. Especially in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, witchcraft was deeply affected, and witchcraft was completely regarded as witchcraft from then on.
During Liu Che's rule, the punishment was severe, and he liked to appoint cruel officials. At the same time, Liu Che was superstitious and believed in witchcraft and other things. Liu Yuxin is very generous, and has always advocated mitigating punishment. In order to prevent the prince from changing his policy after he ascended the throne, all cruel officials are in danger.
After Wei Qing's death, the ministers with rigorous political opinions vilified the Prince in succession. As it happens, Emperor Wu had a dream that thousands of pieces of wood attacked him. He thought there would be wicked people who were good at swearing, so he ordered Jiang Chong to pursue the matter.
Jiang Chong took this opportunity to search the palace and brought witchcraft into Liu Yuxin's palace unnoticed. The prince was frightened and killed Jiang Chong. Later, he was slandered and rebelled and fled to civilian homes. Later, he was found and hanged himself.
What is the method?
"Dharma" is one of the witchcraft that uses poison to harm people. It is an ancient mysterious and horrible witchcraft, which is mainly popular among some ethnic minorities in southern China. Originally a worm born in a vessel, it later evolved into a mysterious witchcraft in ancient China. That's a poisonous insect attached to a woman. This woman released poisonous insects, which hurt people, animals and plants. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "it is impossible to become a village" in a certain area, so there are laws in Miao villages in western Hunan. The method of Xiangxi has become a "grass ghost", and the woman who practices is called a "grass ghost woman". There is also a saying that "you can do anything." There are many kinds of plants and animals, including 100.
Production and types of magic: most of the magic is women, which is women's specialty.
However, this heinous trick has spread among people with ulterior motives and developed into different witchcraft in different regions. For example, the notorious insect tricks and head-dropping techniques make people afraid just by name, and the methods of harming people are even more varied.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a new witchcraft appeared in Jiangnan area, commonly known as "pulling catkins" or "beating catkins". This kind of witchcraft is to trick people into eating something, and later generations will be unconscious immediately after eating it, and follow the performer involuntarily, which sounds a bit like the legendary "slapping flowers".
However, there is an essential difference between "gossiping" and "patting flowers". After a few hours of "patting Hanako", the parties will wake up and the performers will leave after cheating. The method of "pulling catkins" is much more ruthless, often turning people into animals. Cheated people are often taken away in front of their families without anyone noticing, and women and children often suffer from this witchcraft.
It is recorded in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio that there is a hotel in Yangzhou. A guest came to stay with five donkeys, and the shopkeeper pulled the donkeys into the yard and tied them up. The guests hurried over to explain that they must not feed their donkeys, and the store agreed to leave with peace of mind.
After the man left, several donkeys suddenly became anxious and helped each other to try to escape from the rope. The shopkeeper thought the donkey was hungry, but the guest told him not to feed it, so he only took some water to feed it.
The donkeys obeyed and sat down to drink water, and then a miracle happened. . . These donkeys gradually turned into living women in front of the store! Shopkeeper was shocked and didn't dare to say anything, so he asked the woman what happened. These women recovered slowly, their tongues were stiff, and they could not communicate for a while, so the store had to hide them in the wing.
Back in the store, the owner of the donkey is not in the guest room. After a while, he brought back five sheep and asked the store to take them to the backyard and told them not to feed them again.
The shopkeeper is very clever. Knowing that going to the newspaper office would disturb the guests, he brought the "fed" food, waited for the guests to eat and sleep, and then went to the backyard to feed five sheep with water. Who knows, five sheep immediately became five children.
The shopkeeper quickly sent someone to report to the official. When the guest woke up, he saw that he was surrounded by officials. Knowing that the incident was exposed, he had to admit that he had learned the witchcraft of "pulling sheep", turning people into livestock and facilitating the trafficking of these women and children. After he confessed, the angry police immediately killed him with a stick.
1768, in the thirty-third year of Qianlong, an ordinary witchcraft in the south of the Yangtze River caused turmoil in the ruling and opposition parties, and the emperor was furious. Finally, more than 10,000 people were beheaded. What the hell is going on here?
Qianlong thirty-three years, that is, the first month of 1768. Deqing county, Zhejiang province needs to repair a stone bridge. Wu, a local stonemason, was selected as the project leader because of his superb skills. Just as Wu bricklayer was preparing materials for construction, his fellow villager Shen Shiliang came to see you.
Shen Shiliang was born into a wealthy businessman, and his family has a lot of assets. According to common sense, he has no friendship with Wu masons. Why did he rashly come here at this time? Just when the stonemason was puzzled, Shen Shiliang took a silver ingot from his arms and mysteriously revealed the purpose of his visit.
It turned out that although Shen Shiliang was rich in family wealth, he had no children to inherit, so he had to give it to two nephews in order to let them provide for his old age. Now my nephews seem to have broken their word. Shen Shiliang decided to punish them, so he gave a note with the name of his nephew to Wu Masons.
At that time, there was a terrible saying circulating in the south of the Yangtze River: a stonemason typed a note with a name under a stone, and the person on the note was either dead or disabled.
Shen Shiliang is convinced of this curse. He asked Wu masons to insert the note into the bottom of the bridge with wooden stakes, then slammed it with a sledgehammer and cursed the two nephews. Wu stonemason is a simple craftsman, and he never disdains this kind of witchcraft.
In his view, this Shen Shiliang is also an unscrupulous person. The theory that my nephew doesn't support looking for the government himself is, how did he come up with such a cheap trick? So he flatly refused. But that Shen Shiliang is still struggling.
Wu sent the stonemason to the county government to avoid trouble. After some trial, the county official thought it was just a neighborhood dispute and reconciled Shen Shiliang 20 times. However, trouble followed. With the spread of this case, more and more people believe that the rumored witchcraft is true.
Two months later, another case in Deqing County made the situation worse. A beggar who came to Hangzhou from Deqing County was handed over to the government by the local people because of his suspicious behavior. After some torture, the beggar lied that he could take the child's soul with magic.
Such rhetoric, in the official view, is tantamount to a fable and is directly ignored. So no notice was posted to refute the rumor. However, everyone present at that time panicked and rushed to tell each other.
Seeing that things were getting worse, the government remembered that it was better late than never: all counties began to post notices. Perhaps because the corpse has been a vegetarian for too long, the notice drawn up by the government not only failed to curb the rumors, but added fuel to the fire. Seeing that the situation was out of control, officials unified their rhetoric for political achievements and collectively concealed it, so that they missed the last chance to spread rumors.
Under the planning of some people with ulterior motives, this ordinary case quickly disturbed half of the Qing Empire.
In June, Shandong scholar Han Peixian admitted that he had cut people's braids one after another;
In July, a beggar surnamed Cai in Shandong confessed that he was taught to stun passers-by with ecstasy and cut people's braids;
In August this year, Zhang, a 72-year-old mother-in-law in Jingzhou, admitted that she had cut off the maid's skirt twice.
And the purpose of these people is nothing more than to plot evil …
The funniest thing is that even a primary school student named Guo in Shaanxi delayed his studies because he was greedy for street tricks, and lied to his mother that his hair was cut and he lost his soul …
After all, paper can't hold fire, and this storm soon spread to Beijing. In a rage, Gan Long couldn't help denouncing the courtiers: "After the painstaking efforts of Kang Yonggan III, the Qing Empire was peaceful and peaceful. How could it be disturbed by such absurd words?"
Because of the mystery of witchcraft, it has evolved into a mysterious means of hurting people and communicating with God. In western history, witchcraft is a psychic magic, while in the East, witchcraft is more understood as a harmful magic. Therefore, most people stay away from witchcraft. This is forbidden by law.