Popular Science: About the Falling Head Theater
Luotou Man, also known as Flying Head Man, called Feitou Man in the Night Walk of the Hundred Ghosts, is a kind of monster in the south, their head can fly out of the body, there is a sacrificial activity called Worm Fall in their clan, so the whole group is also called Worm Fall.
During the Three Kingdoms, Zhu Huan, the general of Wu, had a servant girl, and her head flew away every night after others went to sleep. Go in and out of dog holes and skylights, using your own ears as wings. Towards dawn, her head flew back again. The people around him realized that something was wrong, so they lit the lamp at night to look at the maidservant, and saw that she only had a body and no head, and could barely breathe.
People covered her body with quilts. At dawn, her head flew back, but because the quilt covered her body, her head could not be put up, and fell to the ground, and her head sighed very sadly, and her body breathed very quickly, as if she was dying. So the people took off the quilt, and the end flew up again, and it was put on the neck, and after a while it calmed down.
Zhu Huan thought that this maid was a monster, and he was so scared that he didn't dare to adopt her anymore, so he let her go. Later, when I learned about her situation in detail, I learned that she was a fallen person. At that time, the great generals of the Southern Expedition had obtained many such people. There was also a time when some people took advantage of the fact that the heads of the fallen people had flown away and covered their necks with copper plates, so that they could not take their heads back, and they died.
(From Ganbao's "Sou Shen Ji", and other deeds of the Luotou people are also recorded in "Collecting Memories", "Naturalist Chronicles" and "Youyang Miscellaneous")