Chinese ancient witchcraft what is the witchcraft? Chinese ancient witchcraft is tactics [ˈtæktɪks] to influence or take control of some people or things through supernatural power.
Ancient people who practiced the witchcraft called witch (female) or wizard [\'wɪzəd] (male ).
Necromancy [ˈnɛkrəˌmænsi] 招魂
(To call back the spirit of the deadthrough witchcraft)It is not only useful to the human beings, also applicable [ˈæplɪkəbəl] to animals and plants.
If the Han nationality 汉族[ˌnæʃəˈnæləti] child got sick, it would often be thought that the spirit of the child was lost outside in the village.His mother should take his clothes to go outside the village and shout his name in order to practice evocation [ˌɛvəˈkeʃən].
the Yi nationality 彝族also had a tradition that called back the spirits of elders who had run away and died for many years.It would be conducted by a wizard standing on a high mountain, looking at the way the elders left.He would shout the names of the dead, while using the twine [twaɪn] 麻线to draw back the spirits of the dead.
General young guys would send a witch.Witch covered her head with sheet to invite the Godto poe her.Soon she went into a coma [ˈkomə], announcing that she was poeed.Then the witch would represent the lover of the male, and sang with the male and poured out their words.
the curse诅咒 It used the powerful magic of words to reach the purpose of hurting others (to curse others’ name).There once was a steaming-cat curse of Han in the northeast and Manchu area.For example, if men found someone stealing their poeionsand burglars did not admit, they would write the date of birth and the eight characters of a horoscope [ˈhɔrəˌskop] 生辰八字 and names on the paper, putting the paper together with a cat in the food steamer.With the cat struggling and crying in the steamer, the burglars would be cursed to death like the cat.4, Exorcism [ˈɛk sərˌsɪzəm,] 驱鬼
It was an aggreive witchcraft practiced on ghost.Often used in production, construction, treatment, funeral [ˈfjunərəl].This was the main work of folk Wizards.
Character, sword, printing, mirror符、剑、印、镜were the main tools of exorcism.Exorcism was also applicable [ˈˈæplɪkəbəl] to the dead.
Li 黎族were afraid of the dead most.The funeral must be complex rituals [\'rɪtʃʊrlz]: they must carry the corpse of the dead to walk a crooked [ˈkrʊkɪd] road, so that the spirits of the dead hard to find the way to come back.Before the corpse was interred下葬, it should be pounded by huge rocks or nailed up by wood pile in order to let the spirits of the dead could never return home, otherwise it will disturb the family.
