Palace on the edge of the earth

Li Chang-min, a military official, suddenly died, but his body did not cool down for three days, and they were afraid to bury him. Suddenly, the dead man's stomach swelled, urine poured, and Lee rose again.

It turned out that he was among the loose sands, on the banks of the river. There I saw a palace under yellow tiles and guards. They tried to grab him, a fight began. An order came from the palace to stop the swara and wait for the command. Freezing the night away. In the morning they ordered the guest to go home. The guards handed him over to some shepherds, who suddenly attacked him with their fists. Lee fell into the river, swallowed water, so that his stomach was swollen, urinated, and came to life.

Ten days later, Lee really died.

Before that night, giants in black clothes appeared to his neighbor, demanding that they be led to Lee's house. There, at the door, they were waiting for two more fierce looks. They burst into the house, breaking the wall. Soon weeping came from there. This story is known from a certain Zhao, a friend of the late Li.

Miracles with a butterfly

A certain E went to congratulate his friend Wang on his sixtieth birthday. Some kid, introducing himself as Wang’s brother, volunteered to ride with him. It got dark soon. Thunderstorm began.

E looked around and saw: the baby was hanging on the horse head down, and his legs, as if walking through the sky, were struck by thunder at every step, and steam was breathing out of his mouth. E was terribly scared, but hid the fear.

Wang went out to meet them. Greeted and brother, who turned out to be a master of silver. E calmed down. We sat down to celebrate. When they began to go to bed, E never wanted to sleep in the same room with the child. He insisted. I had to lay the third old servant.

The night has come. The lamp went out. The child sat on the bed, sniffed at the canopy, stuck out his longest tongue, and then attacked the old servant and began to devour him. In horror, he cried out to Emperor Guandi, the demon of demons. He jumped from the ceiling beam to the thunder of a drum and with a huge sword hit the baby. He turned into a butterfly the size of a cartwheel and wings reflected blows. E lost consciousness.

Woke up - next to neither the servant, nor the children. Only blood on the floor. They sent a man to learn about a brother. It turned out that he worked in his workshop and did not go to congratulate Van.

A corpse comes to complain about a grudge

Once, a certain Gu asked for an overnight stay in an old monastery. The entrance monk said that a funeral service was taking place in the evening, and asked to watch the temple. Gu locked himself in the temple, extinguished the lamp and lay down.

In the middle of the night, someone knocked on the door. He was called an old friend of Gu, who died more than ten years ago. Gu refused to open.

The knocking threatened to call demons for help. I had to open it. The sound of a falling body was heard, and a voice said that he was no friend, but a recent dead man who had been poisoned by the villainous wife. A voice begged to inform everyone of the crime.

There were voices. The frightened monks returned. It turned out that during the service the dead man disappeared. Gu told them about the incident. They torched the corpse and saw that all the holes were bleeding. The next morning, the crime was reported to the authorities.

Bes, appropriating someone else's name, requires sacrifice

A certain sovereign bodyguard chased a hare, accidentally pushed an old man into a well and rushed away in fright. That same night, the old man burst into his house and committed atrocities. The family begged him for forgiveness, but he demanded to write a memorial tablet and offer him sacrifices every day, like an ancestor. They did as he commanded, and the atrocities ceased.

Since then, the bodyguard has always traveled around the ill-fated well, but once, accompanying the sovereign, he could not do this. At the well, he saw a familiar old man who, grabbing him by the floor of his dressing gown, began to scold the young man for a long-standing misconduct and bash him. The bodyguard, praying, said that he made sacrifices to make amends. The old man was even more indignant: what are such sacrifices if, fortunately, he did not drown then in the well, but was saved ?!

The bodyguard led the old man to him and showed a sign. It turned out to be a completely different name. The old man in anger threw the tablet to the floor. There was laughter in the air and immediately subsided.

Taoist picks a gourd

Once, Taoist knocked at the gates of the venerable Zhu and declared that he should see his friend, who was in the master's office. Surprised, Zhu escorted him to his office. Taoist pointed to a scroll with the image of the immortal Lu and said that this is his friend who once stole a gourd from him.

With these words, the Taoist made a hand gesture, the pumpkin disappeared from the picture and ended up with him. Shocked, Zhu asked why the monk had a pumpkin. He said that a terrible famine was coming, and in order to save lives, it was necessary to melt the pills of immortality in a pumpkin. And the Taoist showed Zhu several pills, promising to come again to the Mid-Autumn Festival, when there will be a bright moon.

An excited host presented the monk with a thousand gold coins in return for ten pills. Taoist took the purse, hung it on his belt like a feather, and disappeared.

In the summer, no famine happened. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, it was raining, the moon was not visible, and the Taoist never appeared again.

Three tricks possessed by the demon were exhausted

It is said that the demon has three tricks: one to entice, the second to discourage, and the third to intimidate.

One Lu saw one evening a woman, powdered, with furrowed eyebrows, running with a rope in her hands. Noticing him, she hid behind a tree, and dropped the rope. Lu lifted the rope. A strange smell came from her, and Lu realized that the woman he met was a gallows. He put the rope in his bosom and walked away.

The woman blocked Lyu’s road. He is to the left, she is there, he is to the right, she too. Understood: in front of him is the "demonic wall." Then Lu moved straight at her, and the woman, sticking out her long tongue and disheveled the hair from which the blood was dripping, began to jump at him with screaming.

But Lu was not afraid, which means that three demonic tricks - to entice, impede and frighten - failed. The demon took its original shape, fell to its knees and admitted that once, having quarreled with her husband, she hanged herself, and now went to seek a replacement, but Lu confused her plans. Only the prayer of the rector of a Buddhist temple can save her.

It was precisely our Lui who turned out to be. He sang a prayer aloud, and the woman, as if suddenly seeing clearly, ran away. Since then, as the locals said, in these places all evil spirits increased.

The souls of the dead often turn into flies

Dai Yu-qi, along with a friend, drank wine while admiring the moon. Outside the city, near the bridge, he saw a man in blue clothes walking along, holding an umbrella in his hand, and noticing Day, hesitated, not daring to go forward.

Thinking it was a robber, Dai grabbed a stranger. He tried to trick him, but in the end admitted everything. He turned out to be a demon, whom an official of the Kingdom of the Dead sent to the city to arrest people according to the list.

Dai looked through the list and saw the name of his brother. However, he did not believe the tales of the stranger, and therefore did nothing and remained to sit on the bridge.

After a while, a man in blue appeared again. To the question of Day, he replied that he was able to arrest everyone and now he carries them on his umbrella to the Kingdom of the Dead. Dai glanced, and five flies tied with a thread buzzed on an umbrella. Laughing, Dai let go of the flies, and the messenger in terror rushed after them in pursuit.

At dawn, Dai returned to the city and went to visit his brother. The family said that his brother had been sick for a long time and had died this night. Then he suddenly came to life, and at dawn he again went to another world. Dai understood that the stranger did not deceive him and in vain he did not believe him.

Hon. Chen Ke-qin blows to drive the spirit away

Chen was friends with his fellow villager, poor scholar Li Fu. One fall, they were about to chat and have a drink, but it turned out that Lee ran out of wine in the house, and he went to the store for him.

Chen began to read a scroll of poetry. Suddenly the door opened and a woman with disheveled hair appeared. Seeing Chen, she backed away. He decided that it was someone from the family who was afraid of the stranger, and turned away so as not to embarrass her. The woman quickly hid some thing and went into the women's chambers. Chen looked and found a bloodstained rope emitting a stink. Got it: it was the spirit of the gallows. He took the rope and put it in his shoe.

After a while, the woman appeared behind the rope, and not finding her, attacked Chen, began to blow jets of icy air at him, so the unfortunate one was almost overpowered. Then, of the last forces, Chen himself blew at the woman. First, the head disappeared, then the chest, and after a moment only a slight smoke reminded of a gallows.

Li Fu soon returned and found that his wife hanged herself right by the bed. But Chen knew: she couldn’t cause any harm to herself; he kept the rope at home. And in fact, his wife was easily revived. She said that she was no longer able to endure poverty. The husband spent all the money on the guests. And here is still unknown with tousled hair, who called herself a neighbor, whispered that her husband took the last hairpin and went to the gambling house. Then she offered to bring the "cord of Buddha"! having promised that the woman herself will turn into a Buddha. I went for the cord and did not return. The wife herself was exactly in a dream until her husband helped her.

They asked the neighbors. It turned out that a few months ago a woman from the village hanged herself.

Washes in the river embryos

A certain Ding Kui was sent with dispatches and on the road came across a stone stele with the inscription "The boundary of the yin and yang worlds." He came closer and imperceptibly found himself outside the world of yang, the world of the living. He wanted to return, but lost the road. I had to go where the leg is. In an abandoned temple, the dust from the image of a spirit with a cow's head was wiped away. Then he heard the murmur of water. I looked: some woman was washing vegetables in the river. He approached and recognized his deceased wife. She also recognized her husband and was terribly afraid, because the afterlife is not a place for the living.

She said that after death she was identified as a wife to the servant of the sovereign here, the spirit with a cow's head, and her duty was to wash the embryos. As you wash, such a person will be born.

She led her ex-husband to her home and hid her present husband. There was a spirit with a cow's head. Immediately sniffed - it smelled alive. I had to admit everything and beg to save the unfortunate. The Spirit agreed, explaining that he was doing this not only for the sake of his wife, but because he himself had done a good deed, having cleansed him, his spirit, and the image in the temple. It is only necessary to find out in the office how long my husband has left to live.

The next morning, the spirit found out. Husband had to live long. The spirit was to be instructed to visit the world of people and could lead the stray from the world of the dead. He gave him a piece of stinky meat. It turned out that the sovereign of the underworld punished a certain rich man by ordering a hook to be hammered into his back. He managed to pull out a hook with meat, but since then on his back - a rotting wound. If you crush a piece of meat and sprinkle a wound, everything will immediately heal.

Returning home, Dean did just that. The rich man gave him five hundred gold as a reward.

Taoist Lu expels the dragon

Taoist Liu was over a hundred years old, he could breathe with a thundering noise, ten days he could not accept writing, and then eat five hundred chickens at a time; dies on a person - he’s as if burned with fire; put as a joke on his back a raw pie - instantly baked. In winter and summer, he wore one canvas gown.

In those days, Wang Chao-en built a stone dam. There seemed to be no end to construction. Lu understood: evil dragon spells are in effect. This dragon had already once collapsed the old dam, and now only Lu could go down under the water to fight the dragon. However, it is necessary that Wang, as the chief, issue a decree about this construction, which in oiled paper will be tied to the back of the Taoist.

They did as he said. Leaning on his sword, Lui entered the water, and the battle began to boil. Only tomorrow at midnight, a wounded Taoist appeared on the shore. He reported that the dragon's paw was cut off and he fled to the East Sea. The Taoist himself dealt with his wounds.

The next day, the construction began to boil. Soon the dam was erected. Taoist became famous, and then gained fame also as a healer. He cured many from serious ailments. His disciple said that every morning at dawn, he swallows the sun's rays, gaining great power.