Strange Tale

Let's talk about a few things related to witchcraft that have been circulated in the Northeast.Some have heard and some have experienced it myself. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but they are all very interesting.Once superstition is regarded as a cultural belief, it has a mysterious attraction.

[-]. An old lady who never goes out of the house.

When I was a child, I heard people say that there was an old lady in a village not far from my hometown town, who never left the house for anything serious.Of course, the reason is not that she is in the house, but that the old lady cannot see other people normally.

Everyone in her eyes is the same as that person's previous life, so when she goes to the street, she often sees cows, horses, pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and dogs all over the street.Of course, there are still human beings, which means that the person was human in the previous life, but what the old lady saw was not his or her present—that is, the appearance in this life.

I heard this more than ten years ago. It is estimated that the old man is long gone.Whenever I think about it, I can't help but doubt it, but since it's spread so well, I think there must be a reason for it.Loved this anyway.

[-]. Urine will become a big river.

During the summer vacation in elementary school, I went to play with my cousin at a distant relative's house in the countryside.The toilet in the relative's house is the kind of straw shed built in the yard.

One day it was very late, and the relative's child said that he was going to go out to pee.After he left the house, I made a plan with my cousin to hide by the stove in the outhouse and scare him when he came back.As a result, when the adults heard this, they immediately scolded us.They say that children must not be scared after urinating outside at night, but before urinating, it is okay, at most wet a pair of pants.But if you are scared after urinating, once you get out of your body, the urine you have urinated before will turn into a river, separating the child's soul on the other side, and the child will be stupid.

In fact, thinking about it now, scaring people in the middle of the night is really easy to scare something wrong, so it is likely that someone in the village was scared stupid, and some shaman woman made it up.But this kind of saying that will be very interesting and very scary to young children really works.

You know what I said, during the whole summer vacation that year, not only did my cousin and I not dare to think about scaring others, but every time we went to the toilet by ourselves, we would rush back to the house, and then we would secretly rejoice that the urine did not turn into a river , the soul is still there!

[-]. Stand chopsticks and eggs.

This is a popular practice in the entire Northeast region. I don't know if there are similar ones in other places.

There is no story, just a way to verify whether a person is possessed by something.It is said that if there is a child crying for no reason, or someone suddenly falls to the ground and convulses, foaming at the mouth.You can find an older lady to set up chopsticks and eggs.If it can stand, there are dirty things, and someone has to be found to dance to the master.

Standing chopsticks is to get a bowl of water, then insert a chopstick vertically in the water, and after slowly letting go, the chopsticks will not fall down, that is, they will stand upright.

It is easier to stand up an egg. Put a raw egg on the table with the small end facing down, and let go slowly so that the egg does not fall over.

It is said that these two methods actually use very simple physical principles. As long as you have patience, anyone can make chopsticks and eggs stand upright at any time and any place.

Animism in typical shamanistic beliefs.

[-]. What did you see?

This is something I personally experienced. Many years have passed, and I still don't know what I saw at that time.

About four years old, I really can't remember how old it was, anyway, it was the age when I had memories.On the second and third day of the Lunar New Year, my mother took me to live with my grandma.

Grandma's house was a traditional Northeast brick and tile house at that time.In the center of the courtyard is a house, facing south.There is a big kang in the main room, the kang is on the north side of the house, the kitchen is behind it, and there are large windows on the south wall.This pattern is very conducive to lighting and warmth in winter, which is quite technological.

Because of the festival, everyone sleeps side by side on a kang at night.In the middle of the night I woke up with a start and started crying, waking up everyone.Then I pointed to a pane of glass in the lower right corner of the window and cried.Everyone asked me what was wrong, but I refused to sleep or talk, and just cried desperately.He kept pointing at the window.My mother tried to block me, but I insisted on avoiding her and continued to cry and point.

My mother really had no choice but to pick me up and rush to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife.Then I went back to the back room, hugged me in one hand and slashed at the window with a kitchen knife in the other. I still clearly remember my mother's heroic and crazy heroic appearance at that time.

Miraculously, after the chopping was over, I stopped crying immediately.My mother coaxed me again, and I fell asleep quickly.

The old man in the family said that children have clear eyes and can see things that adults cannot see, and said that I must have seen something that night.But when I grew up, I tried my best to remember countless times, but in the end I just wanted to wear it through my head, and I still only have a piece of ordinary glass painted black and covered with frost in my memory.

Later, I met a friend who had a similar experience with me. She was in the same situation as me. She remembered things, but she couldn't remember what she saw at that time.

Could it be that when a person grows up, not only can't see, but he can't even think about it?

Alas──Maybe there are beautiful things sometimes.