Tartar essence
This story was told to me by my grandfather when he was a child, and he said that his ancestors had heard it from the old people in the village, and I sorted it out and filled it in.
In ancient times, there was a family surnamed Luo who lived by farming, and then life slowly became rich, their whole village life was very stable and rich, one day, a pair of Tartar goblins came to this village, he killed the village chief with witchcraft and asked the villagers to hand over the food at home, since the male and female Tartar spirits arrived in this village, the villagers lived a miserable life, as long as the villagers dared to resist him, he brutally killed the villagers, and dried the corpses of the villagers to give himself the wine and food, the villagers dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, The Tartar spirit often gathered the villagers together, treated them like slaves and animals, beat them with whips, and asked the villagers to build a palace for him, and the villagers told that the earth should not be called ineffective every day, and it was the season when the Tartar spirits were about to give birth in the summer, and the villagers did not dare to approach the Tartars' residence.
This person surnamed Luo quietly wrote a secret letter on the corn husk in the corn field, rolled the corn husk into a roll, and secretly used the corn husk roll to keep in touch with the villagers, planning how to kill this harmful Tartar essence, and it didn't take long for the Tartar essence to give birth to 50 little Tartar essences, he asked the villagers to provide for each family to provide a Tartar essence, if you don't obey, kill the villagers and then dry them to eat, the villagers have no choice but to do what the Tartar spirit says, these little Tartar essences also oppress the villagers, making the villagers' lives more difficult.
This man surnamed Luo couldn't bear to see the villagers of the whole village being mutilated in this way, so he took advantage of the fact that one night when the Tartar spirit was drunk and unconscious, he secretly ran to the palace where the Tartar spirit lived, and wanted to find a way to kill the Tartar spirit, he saw that the original form of the Tartar spirit was a paper man, and the person surnamed Luo ran home quickly while the Tartar spirit had not woken up, and after returning home, he thought hard and finally thought of a way to kill the Tartar spirit. He wrote down the method of killing the Tartar spirit on the corn husk and made an appointment with the villagers to kill the Tartar spirit together, they agreed to get drunk with the Tartar spirit at the time of tomorrow night, and when he showed his original form, he would burn him with fire, and the next day, the person surnamed Luo hid outside the palace of the big Tartar spirit early, and after seeing the big Tartar spirit show its original form, he took out the torch prepared in advance and lit the paper man directly, only to see the Tartar spirit crying wolf howling and struggling for a while and then gradually disappeared.
The people surnamed Luo rushed back to the village, the villagers had just burned the little Tartar essence in their house, and every family was celebrating, they thanked the people surnamed Luo, and collectively made the people surnamed Luo the village head, and later the people surnamed Luo and the villagers lived a happy, stable and prosperous life.
Note: The Tatar spirit in this story is purely a kind of goblin, and the name of the goblin is completely different from the meaning of the Tatar (鞑虏) in the Chinese text.