It just so happened that grandma passed by the door at this moment and saw that Fan Jianming and Leah were both in Leah's room. Leah was lying in her arms and seemed to be sick.
"What's the matter?" Grandma asked.
Li Qianqian said quickly: "Grandma, Leah was scared just now in the back mountain."
Grandma walked in, touched Leah's forehead, blurted out: "This girl has hit the evil, she wants to be called a soul!"
It is normal for a person to be frightened, sometimes a small fright, and sometimes a big fright.
The so-called small shocks are usually scary, goose bumps, or cold sweats coming in and out.
Some people who were frightened suddenly developed a high fever, some were bedridden with dull-eyed eyes, and some were scared to death.
These things are inexplicable by science, and among the folks, this kind of frightened person is usually interpreted as having hit an evil.
To put it more bluntly, I hit a ghost.
Although in the eastern government, this kind of feudal superstition is not allowed to appear, but in the folk, people will always leave some stories and legends about Linyi.
Even "The Songs of Chu" has a chapter called "Calling the Soul", which tells such stories and customs.
Li Qianqian asked, "What should I do? Jianming, do you want to send her to Sanqingguan?"
"What are you going to give Sanqing Guan?" Grandma said: "Just call her a soul!"
Fan Jianming took a closer look and found that Leah's soul and consciousness were there, which was quite different from the folk legend that scared the soul.
But having said that, Leah's pulse is still very weak. Fan Jianming felt that Leah was probably frightened, and at least half of her soul remained on the back hillside.
Because of being frightened, Leah's mind kept showing the scene just now.
To explain from Leah's perspective, that scene entered Leah's memory, but from another perspective, it can also be explained that Leah left her consciousness on the back hillside.
So what the grandmother said is called the soul, and there is some truth to it.
In fact, among the people in the East, calling souls does not only appear in a certain area, but has a considerable folk foundation in all parts of the country.
In the south, if someone is frightened, especially children, they will burn a few incense sticks and paper under the eaves, on the bedside or in frightened places.
Swing the child's clothes back and forth over the flame, hold a kitchen knife or scissors in hand, slap on the ground, and then sprinkle the rice grains around, shouting in the mouth
"Eastern rice, western rice, southern rice, northern rice, four big five-cube rice. On a certain day, XX (child name) came back from childhood! Please come to Jiu Tian Xuan Nu and Ji Po Tong Lang Go back to XX and come home!"
In the southeast, the child’s birth date, which is the so-called horoscope, is written on red paper, placed on the stove, and a bowl of water is placed on the paper, and the head is lit with incense and candles.
Then he took a bucket, covered his baggage, set fire to search for the spider at the foot of the stove, and shouted, "An official (the boss is the high official, the second is the second official) is back!"
Until you find two or three spiders, put them in the bucket, hold them to the child's pillow, and shout while walking.
It's the same in the north.
Seeing that the child is frightened and can't eat or sleep well all day long, I feel terrified all day long.
Parents will take their children and find people who call souls in the local area to call souls.
When calling the soul, the person calling the soul draws a cross on the ground, the person who is frightened stands on the cross, and the parent stands aside.
The soul-caller first read a phrase in his mouth, and then stretched out a hand to the sky to grasp something, and shouted "XX is back!"
At the same time, he stretched his hand to the frightened person, and the parents of the frightened person responded "upper body." Repeat this seven times.
The folks usually have two explanations for this kind of frightened person. One is that the soul is frightened, and the other is that they hit a dirty object, but they are not possessed, but they may be The soul is taken away, so it must be called the soul.
In some places, there are people who specialize in this industry, usually middle-aged and elderly women. If there is no special call to others, this kind of soul-calling task will fall on their own mothers.
As the saying goes, the mother is worried about children traveling thousands of miles. When this sentence is applied to this kind of thing, it is interpreted as no matter where the children's souls go, even if they are thousands of miles away, the mother can call back.
In general, the time to call the soul is before and after dinner, when the sky is getting late.
Although my grandmother did not specialize in the business of calling souls, she had some understanding of the method of calling souls popular in the Jiangnan generation.
She first asked about how Leah was frightened, but Li Qianqian didn't expect to hide it.
After all, I met Huang Hanbin before, and later I heard that there was a vision on the zoo's construction site.
Li Qianqian, who didn't believe this at all, became a little superstitious.
She told her grandmother in detail.
Grandma immediately sank her face and said, "What a mess!
Don’t know if people are scary, will they scare to death? "
Li Qianqian's face flushed, and she was silent.
"But it's okay," the grandmother explained: "At least I know that the snake and you scared her. We don't have to guess, and to untie the bell, you need to tie the bell. You call the soul for her. the best."
"How do you call it?" Li Qianqian asked.
Grandma asked Fan Jianming to go downstairs, grab a handful of rice from the kitchen, and wrap it in a piece of cloth.
Holding the rice-wrapped cloth ball, turned it around Leah's head three times, then patted it three times on the wall, and then handed the rice-wrapped cloth ball to Li Qianqian's hand.
The grandmother herself took a broom and accompanied Li Qianqian out, telling Li Qianqian that she could not walk back and forth in a straight line, but had to make a circle.
As he walked, he said silently in his heart, "Leah, come back soon!"
After each silent sentence, I sprinkled a few grains of rice on the side, but the rice wrapped in the cloth could not be sprinkled. I had to leave a little bit when I came back. Finally, I had to turn three times on Leah’s head, and then put the cloth covered with rice. Put it on Leah's forehead.
Li Qianqian nodded and did what her grandmother said.
The reason why grandma was holding the broom in her hand, she didn't know why, she just heard others say that it must be the case when calling the soul.
In fact, this kind of existence is called soul, not only in the East, but also in neighboring countries.
They usually call a person by name when he is dying, or immediately after death, to resuscitate him or bring him back to life.
Just like in the East, people from neighboring countries also call to the dead by the pillows, some are on the roof and other high places, and others are calling to the mountains, the sea, and wells.
Calling the soul on the roof is often done by digging a hole on the ridge or peeling off a tile to call.
When calling the soul repeatedly, in addition to calling the person's name loudly, the bottom of the measuring bucket or the clothes of the deceased are also shaken, and then the hat and dustpan are used to call the soul.
There are similar methods for finding lost or missing children.
But is this method useful? I am afraid that only the person involved knows about it, but the phenomenon of being frightened cannot be cured in any hospital.
The family members of those who are frightened can only hope in this way, not only to give their children, but also to give themselves a psychological comfort!
After grandma and Li Qianqian left, Fan Jianming thought that what the grandma said was the soul, I am afraid it is only for ordinary people.
Fan Jianming walked over, hugged Liya's body flat, and then pressed her forehead with his hand, and a puff of energy was immediately injected into Liya's body.
(End of this chapter)