Chapter 3 - The Origin of Gu Magic

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readx; "What? Soul Control Gu? What's that? Why have I never heard of it? ”

"It's normal for you not to know, it's rare for people to know this, and they are all masters in this area, first of all, just like I told you, Gu magic is a mysterious witchcraft inherited from ancient times in our country. The pen %fun %Ge www.biquge.info was first seen in some religious books in E City and X City, and the literati and scholars passed on each other, and the pen was also thought to be a bad thing; Gu in philology has a variety of meanings, and the main one is the solution of the worm in the abdomen, from the worm, from the dish. A dish is a vessel – a lunch box, a rice bowl, or a container for other foods and drinks; The word insect symbolizes several insects, and the worm in the belly is the worm that invades the stomach of a person, that is, the poison that is eaten by insects - a poison that enters from the outside in. Many insects invade the stomach and intestines of people, and the effect of beetle erosion is called Gu, also known as Zhong Gu. The people spread the magic that harmed the people. Most of the inheritors are women, born with them, and they live by harming people's lives. And the myth of Gu art is also common, just like a snake Gu attacking people......"

"Eh, what is that?" Officer Chen asked curiously

"Oh, once upon a time, there was a mother with Gu, Gu fell in love with her son, of course the mother didn't want to harm her son. However, Gu bit her very fiercely, and there was no way, so she agreed to let Gu harm her son. When this mother said these words to her Gu, it happened to be heard by her daughter-in-law outside. The daughter-in-law hurried to the edge of the village, and when her husband came back from mowing the grass, she told him about it, and said that the bowl of eggs that his mother had fried for him should not be eaten when he returned. After finishing speaking, the daughter-in-law went home first and boiled a large pot of boiling water. When he came home in a while, his mother brought him the bowl of eggs and told him to eat them. The daughter-in-law said that the eggs were cold, and they would eat them when they were hot. As he spoke, he lifted the lid of the pot, poured the bowl of scrambled eggs into the pot of boiling water, closed the lid and pressed it tightly, only to hear what was struggling and swinging in the pot. After a while, there was no movement, and when I opened the lid of the pot, I saw that it was a big snake that burned to death. These Gu release methods and Gu appearances, except for the saying that they have been passed down from generation to generation, no one has ever seen them, so some people think that they are nothing. ”

"Eh, is there any?"

"Nonsense, of course there is, otherwise the Soul Control Gu would appear here?"

"Anyway, how did you make the Gu you said?"

"Oh, the legendary method of creating poisonous Gu is generally to put a variety of highly poisonous poisonous insects such as snakes and scorpions, scorpions, etc., into the same utensil, so that they can eat and kill each other, and the only remaining poisonous insect is Gu. There are many types of Gu, and the ones with great influence are snake Gu, dog Gu, cat ghost Gu, scorpion Gu, toad Gu, insect Gu, flying Gu, etc. Although Gu seems to be a tangible thing on the surface, since ancient times, Gu has been considered a mysterious thing that can fly, change, glow, and come and go like a ghost. Gu makers can use spells to remotely control Gu worms to bring various diseases to the target and even kill them. The ancients were convinced of the spells that poison Gu caused diseases, and Song Renzong issued the book "Qingli Good Cure Prescription" in the eighth year of Qingli (1048) to introduce the method of curing Gu, and even the medical books such as "Treatise on Diseases and Diseases", "Qianjin Fang", "Compendium of Materia Medica" and other medical books have detailed medical prescriptions for the detailed analysis and treatment of the symptoms of Zhonggu. ”

"Damn, that Gu technique is still good-"

"There are good and bad, it depends on how people use it."

"Eh, since there are a lot of Gus, there must be a classification, right?" At this time, Officer Chen was like a studious child, asking tirelessly.

"Oh, of course Gu, according to legend, it is a poisonous insect cultivated artificially. Gu release is a mysterious witchcraft inherited from ancient times in our country; In the past, in China's southern villages, there used to be a lot of trouble, and no one dared to think that it was fake. The literati and bachelors have passed on each other, and the Han nationality of the pen seems to think that there is something wrong; Some pharmacists also believed it, so they came up with many famous names for curing Gu. There are twelve types of Gu

Snake Gu, Golden Silkworm Gu, Fragment Gu, Stone Gu, Loach Gu, Harm God, Change Gu, Swollen Gu, Mad Gu, Yin Snake Gu, Raw Snake Gu, Love Flower Gu.

In the past, some people used Gu control to make money and kill people. Gu method: more than the Dragon Boat Festival system, taking advantage of its yang energy to use medicine, so as to cause people to get sick and die. It is also made by snakes, Gu, and centipedes, and can be killed with one touch. The rest are some special and are as follows:

Crazy Gu: Legend has it that most of them were done by the Zhuang people, burying snakes in the soil and taking fungi to harm people.

Chancre Gu: It is also known as "releasing chancre" and "releasing bees". It is said that the people of the two Cantonese are good at this. The method is: on the Dragon Boat Festival, take centipedes and small snakes, ants, cicadas, earthworms, worms, hair, etc.

Loach Gu: Soak it in water with bamboo leaves and Gu medicine, that is, it becomes a poisonous loach.

Stone Gu: Made with random stones and Gu medicine.

Slice Gu: The bamboo slices are made after applying Gu medicine.

Golden Silkworm Gu: It is said that this kind of Gu is not afraid of muskets and is the most difficult to destroy; Moreover, the Golden Silkworm Gu can also marry others with gold and silver.

Love Gu: Miao unique love Gu, also known as love flower Gu, is unique to Miao girls, with "heart and blood" plus "Gu" practice, every day with heart and blood to feed, ten years to get a love Gu, this love Gu can be placed in the meal, can also be placed on the clothing, Miao girls are this love Gu on their lover. "Once a month, the love Gu will attack, and that feeling should be heartbreaking. If the people who fall into the love Gu don't take the antidote, when the love Gu attacks, most people can't bear the pain and commit suicide. “

"Damn, it's so fierce, is there a way to identify and prevent it?"

"Gu may be tangible or invisible, and it is very easy to be poisoned, but the method of identification should be paid great attention to. There are three ways to identify poisoning.

(1) Eat raw soybeans (black beans can also be eaten), and the entrance does not smell fishy, which is poisoning.

(2) If you chew an inch of moxibustion licorice, and the throat juice is spit out, it is poisoning.

(3) Insert a silver needle into a cooked duck egg, including in the mouth, and take it out after an hour.

Gu poison is very powerful, it can cause people to get sick and die, although there is a way to cure it, it should not be tried lightly. It is said that the methods of prevention are:

(1) Where the house is clean and tidy, and there is no dust bead net, it is a Tibetan Gu home, and do not interact with it.

(2) Before eating tea, water, vegetables, rice, etc., those who must use chopsticks to knock on the cups and bowls are poisoning, and they must urgently ask the master: "Isn't the food poisonous?" "Once asked, it can be protected from poison.

(3) Travel with garlic, every meal, eat garlic first, if there is a Gu, you will vomit, if you don't vomit, you will die, the owner is afraid of being affected, of course, he does not dare to go to Gu.

(4) Big water chestnuts, no matter how much, slices are dried at the end, and the hollow white boiling soup is sent down every morning (with two coins as the degree), and it can also be harmless if it enters the Gu family.

(5) Gu Zhi is poisoned by rice and wine, which is extremely difficult to treat, so it is advisable to go out on the principle of not drinking alcohol.

The most common way to remove poisonous Gu is to swallow the three flavors of realgar, garlic, and calamus with boiling water to expel the viciousness. The golden silkworm is the hedgehog with the most fearful head and mouth like a mouse, and the body has thorny hairs like oysters, pigs and arrows, so the hedgehog is a special medicine for the treatment of the golden silkworm Gu. Others, such as centipedes and earthworms, can also be cured. There are many legendary ways to avoid Gu. Has the test been in the Golden Silkworm Gu? You can nibble on alum or chew raw black beans. The taste of alum is very bitter, the alum is sweet, and the raw black beans are fragrant, that is, if you are hit by the Gu, you should fry it into juice with pomegranate peel, and after taking it, you can spit out the Gu poison of the golden silkworm Gu. People with travel experience, when they enter the Gu area to eat, they will secretly use chopsticks to pick the first piece of food and put it in their hands, and after the meal is finished, they will bury the food in their hands under the crossroads of the sidewalk, and the Gu will return to the house of the person who released the Gu. Some people pass by the Gu area and encounter suspicious food, so they first ask the owner to take off their chopsticks to pick and eat, so as to avoid being hit by Gu. Often in the evening when the sun is almost set, burn incense under their own eaves to avoid Gu. Some people eat in the Gu area, and usually ask the master first: "Do you have any Gu in this bowl of vegetables and noodles?" "Pick out a piece of food while picking it up, put it aside, and then eat it, and Gu can't do harm.

Of course, there are treatments, ancient medicine is not developed, if someone is infected with Gu poison, usually with two methods of treatment: one is to take herbs, Zhou Li called this herb Jiacao (see Shu's note), one is to pray to the gods, please the gods to drop medicine, the historical records have "Qin Degong as a shrine, four gates of the dog yi, in order to prevent the Gu disaster." (See Feng Zen Book).

The Book of the Later Han Dynasty says: In the midsummer month, a beige rope was used to connect the meat vegetables and the mimu together to extinguish the Gu poison, and a peach tree was hung on the gate to ward off evil spirits (see Etiquette Chronicles). The Compendium of Materia Medica cites the ancient prescription for curing strange poisons, which is to collect many poisonous insects to make Gu on May 5 every year, and this kind of Gu is mainly used to treat evil sores, but later someone used this kind of Gu to harm people. At noon on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the folk also have the behavior of "gathering five poisons" and drinking realgar wine and rubbing realgar wine on the neck, which is intended to prevent sores.

In the countryside of Liyang County, Jiangsu Province, there were often people who fell for Gu in the early years. There is a monk in the local Zhulin Temple who can cure the nameless poison, and makes a pill to treat Gu poison, and the price of a pill is a silk horse, which cures many Gu patients. Han Huang, who was an "observer" in the local area, built a temple next to the hot spring in Liyang County in order to eradicate Gu poison, and asked the monk of Zhulin Temple who knew medicine to preside over it, specializing in treating Gu poison that occurred among the people, and asked the monk to publicly engrave the prescription on the stone tablet. The prescription for this Gu cure is: take a newborn peach at the beginning of the fifth lunar month every year, grind its skin into fine powder, and the amount is two yuan. In addition, use the end of the cantharid, first fry it with wheat bran, and then use the two coins of the end of the raw big fern, mix the three flavors of medicinal rice soup together, and knead it into a ball as big as a jujube core. “

"Boss, don't talk, there's a situation." Qiao Feng's words made Xiao Chen leave Officer Chen, who was thinking about it, to look at the corpse without being surprised. ”