1. Origin
Voodoo 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, some more difficult-to-treat long-term coughs, hemoptysis, black complexions and weight loss, as well as chronic diseases with symptoms such as visceral discomfort, bowel sounds, abdominal distension, and loss of appetite, are all It's a poison. 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. Poison 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.
2. Legend
Gu is a kind of witchcraft that uses poisonous insects to harm people. It is an older mysterious and terrifying witchcraft, mainly popular in southern China and other places. among some ethnic minorities. If millet is stored in the warehouse for too long, the outer husk will turn into a flying insect. The ancients also called it Gu. Zuo Zhuan said in the first year of Zhaogong: "Flying in the grain is also a poisonous poison" and "when grain accumulates for a long time, it turns into a flying poison, which is called a poisonous poison". Flying insects transformed from chaff are different from rice bran: flying insects can fly, but rice bran cannot fly. Kong Yingda's "Commentaries on the Thirteen Classics" says: "Those who use poison to treat people without making them aware of it are called poisonous poisons in modern law." "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: The person who makes voodoo catches a hundred worms and puts them into a container. These hundred large insects eat the small ones, and the last big insect that lives in the vessel is called Gu. It can be seen that Gu was originally a medicine specially used to treat poisonous sores, but was later used to harm people - "Put hundreds of insects into an urn, and if you open it for many years, one insect will eat all the insects. This is called Gu. ”
3. Production method
Use 12 kinds of poisonous animals such as snakes and centipedes to bury them at the crossroads. After 49 days, take them out and store them in the incense burner. This is the golden silkworm. insanity. It is said that this kind of poison is not afraid of guns and is the most difficult to get rid of. 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 on the threshold suddenly disappears, 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 every year, the owner will settle accounts with the golden silkworms behind the door, saying how many bowls and spoons were broken this year and the loss will be huge. If you say that you will make a profit this year, the 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 the wallet by mistake, the golden silkworm Gu will follow him.