"What do you mean? Why do you know it as soon as you enter the village?"
Chujiu smiled mysteriously and said that if it was really voodoo, the village owners of several villages were ancestors who played voodoo, so it might not be voodoo.
I still can't figure it out, if it's a bewitching spell, where did we get caught?
"It's hard to say. The art of poison is very mysterious, and people can always fall prey to it without even realizing it."
Chujiu told me that although he didn't fully understand the real bewitching technique, he still knew some of the common ways to cast poison.
The most common one is to use nails. Chujiu said that in ancient times, Miao girls had at least two or three fingers and long nails.
They painted their nails with the juice of impatiens flowers to make their fingers look particularly beautiful. More importantly, their nails could be used as tools to spread poison.
For example, if you hide some medicinal powder in your fingernails, and when you are carrying a bowl of water or wine, if your fingers accidentally touch the bowl, you can spread the poison silently.
And it is difficult for others to guard against it. When the girl hands the wine to the other person, no one will find any problems when checking it, even if she takes a sip first.
Only when passing it to the person who wants to cast the poison, will I use my fingers very dexterously to add the medicinal powder or insect eggs into the wine.
Of course, the more advanced voodoo techniques are even more incredible.
They achieve the purpose of controlling insects by controlling them.
Bugs that can be controlled are Gu bugs. Although their appearance is no different from ordinary bugs, they are just one of a group of bugs and they obey the orders of others.
When he was a child, his grandfather told him a story about voodoo.
It was said that a Han man accidentally offended a person from the ancient Miao tribe.
There was a conflict between the two parties. In the end, the Han people, who had a larger number of people, almost beat the Gu Miao tribesman to death.
As a result, the next day, all the people who participated in the beating of the ancient Miao tribe died suddenly at home.
Someone reported to the official that they had seen a conflict between them and a Miao man, and they suspected that this Miao man was responsible.
The officials arrested the Miao man and brought him to justice. After investigation, they found that there was no evidence that the Miao man was at the scene.
In the end, the Miao people were acquitted, and the case became a mystery and attracted the attention of senior officials.
The officials sent police officers to investigate and found that everyone had been poisoned.
After years of research and investigation, this case was finally learned through the guidance of an expert.
The people of the Gu Miao tribe controlled a rat and ran to the home of the person who beat him. The highly venomous rat only ran around the pot and stove in the home and then came back.
Chujiu told several stories about bewitching. When he saw that my face was getting paler with fright, Chujiu smiled extraordinarily brightly.
Only then did I realize that he was actually trying to scare me. Chujiu, who was covering his head and admitting his mistake, could only admit that not everyone in the Miao people knew the art of bewitching.
Gu magic also requires talent, and it is particularly difficult to practice. It can be said to be even more difficult than the King of War.
Not only do you need to have the innate spiritual sense to communicate with insects, but the techniques alone will take you ten years to master. What's more, there are also methods of using some props, which are even more difficult to practice.
I thought of the story about the corpse chaser that was told to us before the ninth day of the Lunar New Year.
Sun Ming, the grandson of my uncle's friend Sun Nong, was good at playing with snakes and used his feet to drug him by the lake on the ninth day of the lunar month in Anhui.
Chujiu said that he was sure that Sun Ming's method was not a formal voodoo technique, but might be a method similar to voodoo techniques.
As for his poisoning by the lake, it can only be regarded as the most basic form of poison.
"Then does anyone in your Tuhai Village know the art of voodoo?"
I was still curious and asked the question I was most concerned about.
"Sister Mi Li's grandma is the owner of another village, the same grandma who gave me fish-catching pills. Mi Li has learned some lessons from her grandma and can control bees, but no one else can."
After chatting for a long time, no results came out of the conversation, but I became even more confused.
According to Chujiu, the probability of being poisoned is very low, unless we are extremely lucky and happen to meet someone who knows how to do voodoo.
But why did that uncomfortable long-haired man happen to appear next to us? Is it really just a coincidence?
"By the way, on the ninth day of the lunar month, are there any specialties in celebrating the New Year in your village?"
I thought about it on the ninth day of the lunar month, and said that if it is New Year's Eve, it should be similar across the country. It's just that for some ethnic groups, the biggest and most solemn festival is not the Spring Festival.
Regarding New Year's Eve, it should be about setting off firecrackers, eating New Year's Eve dinner, wearing new clothes, and collecting New Year's money.
New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc. It is the last night of the twelfth lunar month every year.
Chu means to get rid of; Xi means night. New Year's Eve is also a festival to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, to start again and everything to be renewed.
If you collect it from all over the country, you will find that there are fourteen customs on New Year's Eve.
First, there is a New Year’s Eve dinner on New Year’s Eve.
The New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve is also called the Reunion Dinner. According to Zong Mo's "Jingchu Years' Records", the custom of having New Year's Eve dinner has existed at least in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Because it is winter, northerners often set up a hot pot in the middle of the dining table, so it is also called a stove.
The traditional seating arrangement on New Year's Eve is "to the left and to the east" and "to face the door is to respect".
The person at the head of the annual banquet is the highest-ranking elder, and the person at the bottom of the banquet is the person with the lowest seniority.
If it is a treat, the chief guest will be the most respected guest, and the host will occupy the last seat.
If the chief has not taken his seat, no one else can take his seat; if the chief has not taken action, no one can take action.
Second, don’t draw water on New Year’s Eve.
There is a taboo of "not drawing water" during the Chinese New Year. Households with wells must "seale the wells" before dusk on New Year's Day.
This means to add a wooden cover to the well, offer cakes and then burn incense to worship. The cover can be opened and reused after three days.
Third, worship ancestors.
Worshiping ancestors is the first important event on New Year's Eve. In many places in our country, on this day, people will put rich meals at home, light incense and candles, and parents will lead their children and grandchildren to worship.
In some rural areas in the north, paper money is still burned at home.
In the evening of New Year's Eve, incense candles are lit in front of the ancestors' statues, wine is poured, and dishes are served. The whole family holds a grand sacrificial ceremony to express the feeling of "being cautious until the end."
After the ancestors had eaten the New Year's Eve dinner, people began to enjoy it.
Fourth, lucky money and lucky fruits.
The ancients were very particular about New Year's money. The copper coins used should be large and new, and then tied with red string into various shapes.
Some wear hundreds of copper coins, which means "long life". Some wear them in auspicious shapes such as carp, wishful thinking, dragon shape, etc., which means "money dragon", "money surplus", in order to bring good fortune.
Good luck and good luck.
In some areas, there is also the custom of giving "lucky fruits" to people.
On New Year's Eve, elders will place oranges, lychees and other fruits on their children's pillows to wish their children good luck in the coming year.