The origin of Xiangxi Gu Po

In Xiangxi, Gu, Wu, and Cave Girl can all communicate with each other. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the three are listed in this way, and the poor and old are easy to become Gu women; Those who are about thirty years old are easy to become witches; From 16 to 223 years old, those who are beautiful and introverted and have an unsuccessful marriage are prone to fall into a hole and die. All three of them take God as the object, and produce a kind of metamorphosis female nerve wave old and poor, resentful and depressed, and only in the form of revenge can the feelings be discharged, so what Gu Po does is close to revenge.

The common name of the good Gu is "Grass Gu Woman", and the Gu people are called "Putting Gu". The method of releasing Gu is to use insects to release fruits, and poisonous insects are not only ants, centipedes, and long snakes, which are all local and common. There are many children in the Gu, and the phenomenon is similar to the usual roundworms in the abdomen, the abdomen is swollen and thin, or the insects and snakes in a dream finally die. If the family suspects that a woman on the same street put her during the illness, they will go to see her, just as a casual way of gossiping, and say politely: "Uncle, my child has a little illness, and it can't be cured, you know what little Dan prescription, sue me for one." Poor children! The woman, knowing that she was suspicious, would say, "It doesn't matter, just eat some pork liver (or whatever)." ”

When I went home and ate according to the recipe, it was really good. The reason for being sick is "collecting Gu". The Gu Po's home will be unusually clean, and her eyes will be red. The Gu woman released the Gu out of being persecuted by the Gu, and she would come once in a considerable period of time. Usually, a small child can go through a year, and a tree (if the local tree is deflated and has an anthill and dies, it is mostly thought that it will be released to death) is only two months, but it can be three years to put one's own child. On the street where Gu Po lives, the neighbors are always polite to her, and she will never be uncomfortable with the children on the street. (It won't even be bad for the kids in the city.) But at some point, if a child in the same street or a child in the city is forced to die due to Gu, and the good deeds arouse public indignation, they will arrest this woman and put her in the hot sun in June, called "Grass Gu". or punish in other, more cruel ways. The official never asks about this. Even if the woman died in lynching, it was not a matter of questioning. Some of the women who were punished cried out for injustice, while others seemed to think that they deserved their sins, and were silent. However, the sentiment is the same, that such a woman must believe that she has the power to cause death. There are also some who actually confess how much magic power they have, how many times they have performed it, who they killed in a certain place at a certain time, and she also did it when a dead tree in a certain place set itself on fire. In the confession, it seems to get a kind of satisfying happiness. In this way, according to the habit, they must be exposed to the poisonous sun for three days, and some women will be cured of their illness after being sunburned, thinking that Gu will leave after being exposed to the sun and become a normal woman. Some of them died because of this, and after they died, people thought that they would do nothing but harm to the place. In fact, such a woman is not so much a sinner as a madwoman.

She didn't have such a special ability to kill people at all. This kind of woman is the protagonist of a tragedy, because she has a bit of hidden madness, and the reason for her madness is poverty and loneliness.

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