My hometown is a small remote mountain village where there are legends of tanuki and tengu, and there are always villagers talking about tanuki or tengu. People's perception of tengu comes from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" Xishan Jing, which contains clouds: "There are beasts in the Yin Mountain、、、、、、 Its shape is like a raccoon dog with a white head, and its name is called a tengu, and its cause is like a pomegranate, which can ward off evil. As mentioned in the scriptures, the original tengu was an auspicious beast that could ward off evil spirits, but later evolved into a word used to describe comets and meteors, and the people regarded the sky running as a bad luck, so the tengu also became the title of a bad star, and it was said that the tengu would come out of the mountains during the full moon and play tricks on people like a tanuki, and sometimes they would kill people, so it can be said that it is synonymous with terror.

"Oh, have you ever heard that someone got entangled in a tanuki last night, and he couldn't find a home all night."

"I also heard that so-and-so was blinded by a tanuki and sat on the ground by himself until dawn."

"So-and-so was entangled by a tanuki, and it took a lot of hard work to drink hot tea at the tea stall to wake up!"

Tanuki are very fond of deceiving or deceiving people, and many villagers keep circling in place because they have been deceived by raccoon cats. The tanuki makes people think that they are walking in the direction of home, and when they come to their senses, they will realize that they are actually about to go to the next village. However, this kind of experience is something that everyone in my hometown is used to. Speaking of the tengu, this thing is also treacherous and sinister, often turning stones into small children, and then running in front of the villagers, shouting and playing a game of pushing people, that is, to see who has the most strength and who is pushed down first. But how can an adult play with a child? The villagers generally ignored him. But the child was unwilling, and pestered the villagers to play and push people together, and the villagers saw that the child was so entangled, so they had to push him and want to push him away. But no matter how much they pushed, the children did not move, but the villagers pushed themselves down because of the force of reaction. In this way, the villagers felt embarrassed, and they couldn't even push a child, so they came back with all their might. In shame, whether he wanted to lift the child up or push the child out, the dexterous child could easily dodge or not move. In fact, he was deceived by the tengu, and in the eyes of sober people, this villager is playing a game of pushing people with a stone tablet.

In the dense woods, the villager had been playing games with the big stone tablet, and was covered in dirt, but fortunately the man who had gone to chop wood in the early morning saw him and woke him up, otherwise he would never have known what he was doing. It is said that the tengu would also turn the thorn strips into children, causing the villagers to be wounded all over their bodies, and their skin was opened.

Tengu is usually most rampant in early summer, when the wheat in the fields is about to ripen, and many children playing in the fields have been deceived by the tengu, so adults do not let their children go out to play at this time of year.

Let's talk about the water monster again, the water monster is naturally in the water, it is rumored that they are covered in green hair like aquatic plants, very long, the hair flutters lightly in the water, it looks as soft as cotton wool, its eyes are red, shining, lurking at the bottom of the water, it can see people walking around the shore, it likes children, it will sneak to the surface of the water, take advantage of people's attention, pull children into the bottom of the water, many children are drowned in this way. Whenever such a thing happens, people will say that the water monster will gouge out the child's eyeballs and eat them, and the reason why its red eyes have such good eyesight is because it eats the child's eyeballs, and if it does not eat the eyeballs, the red eyes will be blind.

Next, let's talk about the dog god, the dog god is the ghost of the dog, and the tengu is different, the dog god likes to possess people, and it will be passed down from generation to generation, and a dog god will affect several generations. In my hometown, there is a family with a dog god, and the dog god of this family may be too loyal, so he will always use various methods to fulfill the wishes of his family. For example, if they envy their neighbor's silkworms for growing well, the dog god will immediately possess the silkworm next door, and the silkworm will soon die. Or maybe it will possess the neighbor and make them sick. Sometimes, if you just think that the pickles next door are delicious, Inugami will immediately run into his vegetable jar and destroy all the pickles, or possess the person who makes the pickles and make them sick.

If you want to drive the possessed dog god out of your body, you have to ask the old monk to do the trick and move the dog god from the patient's body to Yinu. If something happens to someone's family, they will pay for her to help eliminate the disaster, and she will sit beside the patient, holding the paulownia branches that the old monk had done and the wooden stick covered with small pieces of white paper, motionless. When everything is ready, the old monk will start reciting the scriptures and move the dog god from the sick person to the woman. At this time, the whole body will tremble, beads of sweat appear on the head, although it is very painful, they still have to continue to dance the wooden stick with the paper in their hands, and when the paper on the wooden stick is all broken and scattered, the old monk will no longer chant the scriptures, but shout to the Yinu with a fierce face: "Who is coming!" Where did it come from? ”

"Come close、、、、、、 come to the village chief's house next door、、、、、、" Yi Nu's throat made an extremely ugly sound, and she spoke slowly, and Lao Zeng also knew where the dog god came from.

Sometimes the dog god is reluctant to tell his origin, and the old monk often viciously says that if he doesn't say it, he will use a spell to destroy him, or chant to trap it, and then the dog god will be honest and tell his origin.

Of course, not only the dog god, but sometimes it is the spirit of a tanuki or a human who has died.

"Why pester?" The old monk asked.

The old monk had to figure out the reason for the possession before he could get rid of it completely. In other words, the reasons for the possession of these monsters are simply strange. Some youkai are possessed just to eat, some are envious or jealous, and some will say that they just happened to pass by, but they were frightened by the dog in the family's yard so they possessed, and some monsters were simply possessed for no reason.

"Get out of here!" The old monk warned viciously.

Some youkai will leave very obediently, at which point I-nu will suddenly fall on her back, or climb to the door and fall, and after a while I-nu will return to normal as if nothing had happened. But sometimes the monster won't leave so easily, and that's when things get tricky, but fortunately, the old monk always has a way. Some monsters will use this as a threat, asking to complete some wishes before leaving, some ask for money, some want to eat, and the people who are possessed by it have no way, but can only prepare the things they need according to the instructions of the monsters, and then send the things to the designated place, so there are often people who receive gifts from others for some reason, of course, they don't know what's going on, but they will always be very happy to receive something, and the one who is possessed is very helpless. Over time, if someone in the village received a gift, they would ask, "Is it something that our family dog god wants?" ”

However, there is no such thing now, and in the early years, when people got married, they would avoid the family of the dog god in the family.

"Oops! A certain daughter-in-law seems to have glowing eyes. ”

People in the village always think that the descendants of the dog god will be different, especially the eyes, an old woman I know is the family of the ancestor dog god, her eyes look very weird.

Among these monsters, in fact, the tanuki is the most evil and vindictive. I remember when I was a child, there was an evil tanuki in the village, always attached to people, and the possessed people lost their minds and laughed wildly, which was the revenge of the tanuki on people, because at that time the old monk who would descend demons and eliminate demons had passed away, and his disciples were young, and they couldn't stop descending this monster, so the tanuki was unscrupulous and lawless. As the saying goes, the master is sometimes in the people, and there is a man with infinite strength in our village, who has figured out a way to deal with the tanuki, that is, to rub the patient hard, and he will get this evil tanuki out. The tanuki finally got scared and fled the village.

One day, the bachelor was walking alone in the mountains and forests, and the tanuki called out to him.

"Dog leftovers!" Tanuki barked. The bachelor is called Dog Leftover.

When Gou Yu heard the voice of the tanuki, he was a little surprised, he didn't expect this tanuki to be so bold. But he was not afraid at all, and he was still thinking about catching the tanuki and slaughtering it.

Seeing that the dog was left, the tanuki continued: "I can't fight you, so I decided to reconcile with you, you see that you are so poor, how about I help you earn a good vote?" ”

"How do you earn it?" The dog was left interested.

"That's right. I have a friend who is also a tanuki, and at this time he is possessing the little daughter of the village chief of Beiwa Village, why don't we pretend to be a famous doctor together, I will drag my partner out, and the village chief will definitely thank us at that time, I won't take a penny, I'll give it to you, how about it? ”

Gou Yu is a person who usually can't eat enough, and when he heard that there was money to be made, it was so easy, so he readily agreed.

"Let's go." The tanuki said, flicking its tail and leading the way.

Beiwa Village is at the foot of the mountain, from here it is only three miles away, when it is about to arrive, the tanuki has turned into a human form, only to see it pick a few leaves from the tree, stain some saliva, stick to its body, the leaves immediately become clothes, it ripped off a vine, tied around the waist, and it became a belt. Gou Yu couldn't take his eyes off it, and suddenly became in awe of the tanuki.

In this way, the tanuki took the form of a doctor, turned a stone into a medicine box, left the dog on his back, made him his apprentice, and continued on his journey.

When I came to the village chief's house, I saw the beautiful house of the village chief, the dying lady, the tanuki had its own magical powers, first gave the young lady a pulse, and then took out a gourd from the medicine box, I don't know what was in the gourd, the civet cat pointed the gourd mouth at the mouth of the young lady, only to hear a few "coo" sounds, and there was liquid poured into the young lady's stomach. The young lady immediately woke up. The village chief and the village chief's wife, the old and young family, were delighted and surprised, and they cooked a sumptuous meal for the two famous doctors.

There was a whole big table of delicacies from the mountains and seas, and the dog had never seen so many delicious foods when he was so big, so he pounced on it and ate and drank the sea、、、、、、

It is said that what he ate was not a handful of delicacies from the mountains and seas, but a handful of soil, and the soil was not digested, so he swelled to death when he got home, and when he died, he was still holding a handful of white round paper, which was the money given to him by the tanuki.

Look at how evil the tanuki is、、、、、、