This is very important info!!! Donald Marshall’s story binds everything together and tells the Truth. Just look around you and all the ancient cultures. Please read and share:
Marshall claims that there is a secret that has been kept by members of the Illuminati for more than 70 years, a secret of such great importance, as to effect the lives of every man, woman and child on the face of the planet. Marshall states that his mission in life is to share this secret with the world, so that all can know the truth and plan for the future.
In order to fully understand this secret, it will be necessary to return to the events of Postwar Germany, following the end of World War I, where, in 1923, Hitler was named the leader of the new Nazi party. Following a failed attempt to overthrow the federal government, Hitler was arrested for treason. While awaiting trial in Landsberg prison, he read Bulwer-Lytton’s 1871 novel: Vril: The Power of the Coming Race about a master-race of beings who call themselves the Vril-ya. They claim to be the descendants of the inhabitants of ancient Atlantis, with access to an extraordinary force called Vril, an unlimited source of energy that supplies all their needs and can be controlled at will. Hitler believed the novel to be true and once made Chancellor of Germany, he would send teams of spelunkers into caves and mines all over Europe searching for the Vril-ya. He dispatched regular expeditions to Asia, especially Tibet, where Nazi explorers made significant connections with influential Tibetan lamas, who had expert knowledge about the underground tunnel and cavern systems around the world. Legend was these Tibetan lamas guarded a secret entrance to the Inner World, known as the Red Door, hidden within the Potala palace in the mountain city of Lhasa. Once a Nazi-Tibetan alliance was formed, the lamas agreed to share with them that for centuries, they had been helping to hide an indigenous race of lizard living deep within the planet since prehistoric times, known as Vril lizards. It seems that these lizards knew the location of an abandoned military base dating back from the time of Atlantis, filled with ancient aircraft, weaponry and technology hidden within the tunnels and caverns of Antarctica. The lizards had no use for the tech, but they were willing to trade for something else they wanted. The lizards were carnivorous and preferred to consume fresh human flesh. And so, a deal was made. The Nazis got the ancient Atlantean tech and sold out the human race.
But according to Marshall, this is not the first time Vril lizards have interacted with humans. He claims that for centuries, royalty, powerful heads of state and trusted religious leaders around the world have kept a secret pact with the malevolent lizards. World leaders would receive valuable resources buried deep within the planet, such as gemstones, gold and other minerals and, in exchange, these leaders would conceal all evidence of the Vril from the surface population, so no one would learn of their existence. In addition to helping them hide, Vril lizards required that they be provided with a steady supply of humans to consume.
However, Marshall says that keeping the Secret of Vril not only refers to hiding the lizards and denying their existence, but also refers to an even bigger secret. Being a parasitic race, Vril lizards have the unique biological ability to invade the human body, take over the brain, and by accessing their memories, they can look, act and seem human in every way. After a period of recovery, the human is able to return to its normal activities, except the brain is now under the complete control of the Vril parasite.
Much like the 1956 scifi classic The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which the inhabitants of a small California town are replaced, one by one, with identical copies of themselves, Marshall warns us that we’ve already been invaded, we just don’t know it.
Marshall explains that Vril lizards are essentially parasites, and like all parasites, have a biological drive to invade, dominate and take over. Marshall refers to this biological takeover as “bodysnatching” and explains that the human victim dies once the Vril lizard takes over.
Marshall says that with the help of the Illuminati, bodysnatching Vril lizards have infiltrated all levels of society and hold positions of power all over the world.
This is done in order to remove key people and replace them with Vril hosts. Marshall states that Vril hosts can be found everywhere, in all levels of government, business, banking, military, law enforcement, journalism, media and entertainment.
Just how is this bodysnatching process accomplished?
According to Marshall, Vril lizards have a natural proboscis at the top of their head, from which they eject a type of thick cerebrospinal fluid. When this fluid enters the human, usually through the eye and from there, to the brain, a chemical transformation immediately begins to take place. The victim essentially dies, leaving the lizard parasite in complete control of all brain function. After a period of recovery, the Vril host can return to its’ regular activities, looking, acting and seeming completely normal.
Marshall reports that the Illuminati even hold a special bodysnatching ceremony to celebrate this Vril lizard takeover. Guests watch as the victim, conscious, though usually bound, is restrained and forced to sit still, until the lizard transfer is complete. Marshall claims to have seen this sick bodysnatching ceremony many times.
Marshall claims that the Illuminati bodysnatch many people, in every country, all over the world. They sometimes choose victims from incarcerated prisoners or longterm patients in hospitals and medical facilities; anywhere they have easy access to people, they will bodysnatch and replace them with a Vril host.
Anyone can be bodysnatched and, according to Marshall, he’s even seen this done to young children. Furthermore, Marshall claims that all loyal families within the Illuminati are expected to offer one of their children to be replaced by a Vril host. They comply since there is the unspoken threat that should they prove to be difficult, they can be bodysnatched at any time. Marshall says he has even seen bodysnatching done with just a couple of guys holding someone down while the victim is screaming, no ceremony required.
According to Marshall, the Illuminati utilize this unique parasitic ability of the lizards to further their own dark agenda. They are able to remove those resistant to their goals without anyone even noticing, and with Vril bodysnatching, the troublesome person is now replaced with an Illuminati spy, infinitely loyal and willing to report back everything they see and hear.
It is crucial to understand Vril lizard psychology, since Marshall maintains that all Vril lizards want to be human. They admire human intelligence and the beautiful human form. They want to crawl out from deep underground into the light and walk unnoticed among humanity. However, they are not human and have no capacity to feel human emotions. In fact, as malevolent lizards, they enjoy causing pain and suffering. Marshall reveals that Vril hosts are responsible for much of the senseless crimes and spree killings that occur. However, Vril hosts are excellent mimics and make convincing humans. And since there is no way to detect the presence of a Vril host, except with an MRI scan of the brain, most members of the Illuminati pretend to like the lizards and are friendly to Vril hosts, since no one is ever certain if they are talking to a host or human.
According to Marshall, prehistoric Vril lizards have been bodysnatching humans throughout history, even during ancient times. He claims that they are, in part, responsible for the destruction of the island of Atlantis, where legend tells lived an advanced civilization that existed in the Atlantic ocean. Marshall reports that Vril hosts had bodysnatched and infiltrated their way into positions of power throughout Atlantean culture, where they destroyed themselves with advanced weaponry, causing cataclysmic flooding and earthquakes.
Marshall asserts that Vril lizards often infiltrate human societies, by targeting individuals in the ruling class, royalty or priesthood. Once they are in positions of power, Vril lizards attempt to convince the humans to worship them as either gods or demons; something to be feared and obeyed without question.
As gods, Vril lizards would demand human sacrifices as a show of loyalty and devotion. In these cultures, it was considered an honor to be bodysnatched and chosen to become a god. The people didn’t understand the biological nature of the takeover of the brain, and thought it was some kind of mystical or magical transformation.
As demons, Vril lizards were deeply feared. Old legends warn travelers against going into certain haunted caves and mountains, and to beware when darkness falls as this was the time when demons would creep about, stealing babies and livestock. When Vril lizards would bodysnatch a victim, the person was later said to be demon possessed and various means would be attempted to drive the demons out.
Many cultures around the world attempted to limit Vril lizard infestation, and Marshall says most, at some point, “start sharpening pointy sticks”. For example, The Hopi Indian culture successfully drove off Vril lizards, while the ancient Anasazi Indians of New Mexico, were forced to leave behind their elaborate cliff dwellings in order to relocate far away from nearby Vril infested caves.
Throughout history, the lizards stayed hidden underground, in dark caves and tunnels, trying to avoid discovery. Some royal families kept Vril lizards as pets, and used them to instill fear in those not showing the proper loyalty to the crown. Some world religious leaders also knew of the lizards, had secret alliances with them, and agreed to help them.
In the 1940’s, a secret pact was forged between the Nazis and the lizards making them mutual allies. Conditions of the pact required directing tremendous resources to assist the Vril lizards, including the building of deep, underground military bases worldwide. This would allow the lizards a way to interact directly with humans which, in turn, would permit the massive, government sponsored bodysnatching so prevalent around the world today.
If we can assume that all this is true, that bodysnatching malevolent lizards have infiltrated human society and are replacing us, one by one, without raising any alarm, one might ask: Wouldn’t someone try to tell people and save humanity?
According to Marshall, President Ronald Reagan tried to warn the public on numerous occasions from 1985 to1988. In an important speech to the United Nation General Assembly on September 21st, 1987, at the height of the Star Wars space race with Russia, Reagan mused, “In our obsession with the antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside of this world. And yet I ask: is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our people then war and the threat of war?”
Marshall states that the Illuminati forgave Reagan’s comments at first, but when he continued to talk about aliens living among us, they “blew his mind and called it Alzheimer’s”.
Marshall encourages us to remember the ultimate Vril lizard agenda, which he claims has remained unchanged for centuries: to infiltrate human society and take over the planet. Marshall warns us to act quickly to spread the news, as anyone can be bodysnatched. As the ending from “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers” warns us: They’re already here. You’re next.
Interesting info to know for people who are sexually active:
Each time a man connects with a woman sexually and releases his life form energy within her, he leaves a part of his information (DNA) in her birth canal. If she doesn’t clean herself, his energy
remains inside of her.
That imprint can often create illusion sexual addiction to the individual. When some one decides to have multiple partners, it can sometimes send mixed emotional signals within the inside of the body’s vibration system. Women must be careful of different energies or spiritual forces polluting their internal temple. You are a sacred doorway, where life is intended to pass through, respect yourself, use your gifts wisely! (Wait till marriage? As God intended).
Just think about it and ask yourself… Ever wonder why they call it sexual intercourse (INTER-Course)? It’s an internal course that unites man and woman, mind with mind, spirit with spirit, or energy with energy. This is something that a condom can’t protect you against because energy is behind the elements of all flesh. There is no such thing as “Casual” Sex or “Friends with Benefits”… No, No, No, I Don’t Think So!!! Intimate activity intricately entwines the energies between two people.
Sex creates a powerful exchange of energy between those involved. These connections, imprints and debris are left upon the mind, soul and spirit for a long time because they are not easily purged or cleansed. ‘Casual sex’ with multiple partners can intertwine the energies and spirits of a lot of people into your own aura if they are not severed and cleansed. You become joined to every person with whom your partner has slept, as well as all the partners those people had. This type of “soul clutter” can be felt by your partner’s subconscious. Even if they are not completely in tune or aware of the extra-curricular sexual activities, they still are able to sense the subtle disturbances of multiple energies and/or familiar spirits that have entered causing restlessness and inner turmoil. The longer and more intimate the contact with another person, the more powerful the reinforcement and the interaction of the bond becomes, and all the more difficult it is for them to untangle and leave. Soul stains, transference of odors, perceptive connections and even mutually formed habits are now left to burden the psyche long after that relationship has ended.
Philip Schneider died on January 17, 1996, shortly after conducting several controversial lectures throughout the US, including Denver where he covered topics such as, Space-Defense, black helicopters, railroad cars built with shackles, extraterrestrials and the secret black budget.
He was reportedly strangled by a catheter found wrapped around his neck – the bizarre death being dismissed by the authorities as suicide.
If the circumstances of his death seem highly controversial, they are matched by the controversy over his public statements uttered shortly before his death.
Philip Schneider was a self-taught geologist and explosives expert. Of the 1,477 underground bases around the world, 129 deep underground facilities of which were located in the United States, he claimed to have worked on 13.
Two of these bases were major, including the much rumored bioengineering facility at Dulce, New Mexico.
At Dulce, Schneider maintained, “gray” humanoid extraterrestrials worked side by side with American technicians. In 1979, a misunderstanding arose. In the ensuing shootout, 66 Secret Service, FBI and Black Berets were killed along with an unspecified number of “grays”.
It was here he received a beam-weapon blast to the chest which caused his later cancer many have confirmed that a large scar indeed existed.
Philip Schneider recounts his encounter with extraterrestrials in the following excerpt:
“I was involved in building an addition to the deep underground military base at Dulce, which is probably the deepest base. My job was to go down the holes and check the rock samples, and recommend the explosive to deal with the particular rock.
“As I was headed down there, we found ourselves amidst a large cavern that was full of outer-space aliens, otherwise known as large Greys. I shot two of them.
“At that time, there were 30 people down there. About 40 more came down after this started, and all of them got killed. We had surprised a whole underground base of existing aliens.
“Later, we found out that they had been living on our planet for a long time, perhaps a million years. This could explain a lot of what is behind the theory of ancient astronauts.”
An fire exchange occurred between gray aliens and secret service personnel.
In the ensuing shootout, 66 Secret Service, FBI and Black Berets were killed along with an unspecified number of “grays”. It was here he received a beam-weapon blast to the chest which caused his later cancer; many have confirmed that a large scar indeed existed.
Schneider maintained that numerous previous attempts had been made on his life, including the removal of the nuts from one of the front wheels of his automobile.
He had stated publicly he was a marked man and did not expect to live long.
“If I ever ‘commit suicide’,” Schneider told a close friend, “I’ll have been murdered.”
Some of Schneider’s more major accusations are worthy of attention:
1) The American government concluded a treaty with “gray” aliens in 1954. This mutual cooperation pact is called the Grenada Treaty.
2) The space shuttle has been producing special alloys in orbit. A vacuum is needed for the creation of these special metals, thereby justifying the mandate for a large, permanently manned space station.
3) Much of our stealth aircraft technology was developed by back-engineering crashed alien craft.
4) AIDS was a population control virus invented by the National Ordinance Laboratory, Chicago, Illionois.
5) Unbeknownst to just about everyone, the US government has an earthquake device. Neither the 1995 Kobe earthquake nor the 1989 San Francisco quake had a pulse wave.
6) The World Trade Center bomb blast and the Oklahoma City blast were achieved using small nuclear devices. The melting and pitting of the concrete and the extrusion of metal supporting rods indicated this. (Schneider’s forte, he claimed, was explosives.)
Finally, Phil Schneider lamented that the democracy he loved no longer existed: we had become instead a technocracy ruled by a shadow government intent on imposing their own view of things on all of us, whether we like it or not.
He believed 11 of his best friends had been murdered in the last 22 years, eight of whose deaths had been officially explained as suicides.
Whatever one might think of Phil Schneider’s claims, it’s clear that he was of particular interest to the FBI and CIA.
His widow has stated that intelligence agents thoroughly searched the premises shortly after his death and made off with at least a third of the family photographs.
In the following video Philip Schneider talks about his experience and what the government is trying to hide, furthermore, the history of underground bases told by Richard Dolan and Richard Sauder.
In closing, I will reiterate what Phil said to a close friend:
“If I ever ‘commit suicide’, I’ll have been murdered.”
There was something almost mysterious about this woman. Her face had lots of wrinkles. These were the first things to catch your eye, but they didn’t make her look old. Instead, they emphasized a certain youthfulness in her that transcended age. The wrinkles belonged where they were, as if they had been part of her face since birth. When she smiled, the wrinkles smiled with her; when she frowned, the wrinkles frowned, too. And when she was neither smiling nor frowning, the wrinkles lay scattered over her face in a strangely warm, ironic way. ~ Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)
My first insight into the feeling of being internally old occurred during adolescence. I felt unusually different from the kids around me, somehow older, but ‘mature’ wasn’t exactly the right word. The best way I could describe it back then was as though I had lived hundreds of years of life which had been condensed into 16 years of time.
As the years went by, I encountered a few Old Souls who I shared my experiences with. I would talk about my insights and introduce them to the concept of Old Souls. One of these people was Luna. She was so excited about it that she eventually wrote the well-received article 9 Signs You’re An Old Soul as well as a subsequent Old Soul Book.
Recently, many other websites have started writing on the subject of Old Souls as well. In fact, so many people seem capable of relating to this experience that I thought it would be a good idea to create a community specifically dedicated to Old Souls, and this was when the Old Soul Facebook Group was born. The lack of conflict within such a large group of members is proof of the maturity that exists among them.
But in the real world having people of different levels of soulful evolution co-existing with each others comes with its problems. Not only that, but having an Old Soul doesn’t necessarily equate to being ‘all-knowing’ or perfect. Rather, it’s an indication of the age of the energy known as your soul.
In my years of mentoring Old Souls and helping them through their spiritual development, these are some of the biggest problems I’ve seen, and personally experienced:
1# YOU’RE A SOCIAL OUTCAST
As with anyone who perceives the world differently from others, Old Souls can experience a great (and unending) sense of isolation. Because they fail to fit into the standards that society admires and values (careers, materialism, status and so forth), they’re commonly seen as strange, offbeat and unconventional.
2# YOU’RE THE “BLACK SHEEP”
While Old Souls can build many strong relationships with people, their penetrating ability to connect with the depths of the people in their lives can create many enemies. Seeing deeply into the core issues of the people around them, Old Souls feel an innate desire to be truthful, even if this means revealing uncomfortable truths such as the fact that many problems are caused by immaturity, or a failure to take responsibility.
Those who are willing to change will listen and like you, while the rest will feel great disdain towards you. This is why Old Souls often become the “devils advocates” or “black sheep” of their friends or family.
3# YOU OFTEN GET MISLABELED
If there’s something we all love and are good at, it’s labeling people. We fool ourselves into thinking we can “know” someone by attributing a label to them. However, humans are far too complex to be boxed into a specific and unchanging group of people. In this case, Old Souls will often be given different labels, from “beatniks” to “hippies”, “anarchists” to “new age freaks”.
While you can’t fight labels, you can try to use them in a positive way. Labels can be used as sign posts, as directions towards awareness of some quality many of us share. These qualities will be different in intensity and strength in each of us, but at least they will help us understand ourselves (and the people around us) a bit better.
This is partly why I called the Old Soul Group “I’m an Old Soul” – not so people can gain egotistical pride with such a label, but to create a sense of self-awareness, to allow people to better understand themselves.
4# YOU SPEAK AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT LANGUAGE
Words are symbols we each load with our own unique definitions according to our own unique life experiences that are associated with each word. What I associate with love might be entirely different from what you associate with love. For example: When someone thinks about love, they might remember their old failed relationship and feel a terrible sense of vulnerability when the word arises, while others might associate love with loyalty and friendship.
Old Souls realize this limitation, and therefore greatly struggle to express entirely what they want to say, knowing that it’s as though they are speaking an entirely different language from others.
5# YOU ARE PRONE TO INTENSE EXISTENTIAL CRISES
I have sometimes witnessed cases where Old energy is born into the body of a person who does not have the matching mental maturity to embrace it. This can result in depressions, substance abuse and existential crisis’s.
When a person realizes that everything is transitional and passing, life can become pointless. This person sees that our bodies are temporary vessels that don’t really matter, and without the ability to cultivate Self-Love, self-destructive habits can result.
In this case, it’s necessary to undergo intense spiritual-growth, to cultivate existential meaning and inner-understanding through paths like Involution in order to learn how to embrace your soul.
6# YOU EASILY BECOME EMOTIONALLY DRAINED
With the wisdom and patience that comes with being an Old Soul, there also comes others people’s desire to use you as a dumping ground for their emotions. I’ve experienced this a lot in my own life, often experiencing emotionally-charged conversations that last for hours at a time. Some Old Souls also double as Empaths, which can also take a great tole tole on your energy.
7# YOU’RE PRONE TO BECOMING MENTALLY DRAINED
In the search for truth, deeper understanding and inner exploration of yourself and the world around you, it is common for the Old Soul to experience a lot of mental fatigue. Double this with acting as a mediator between people and their problems, and you’ll end up exhausted at the end of the day.
#8 YOU STRUGGLE TO FIND A KINDRED SPIRIT
If making friends who connect with you is difficult, finding a Soul Mate, or life partner, can be even more of a challenge. It took me living in 6 different countries to find Luna.
But it’s not always as hard as that. Having the wisdom to discern the true depths of your connection with a person will be your greatest asset in the area of love.
#9 YOU’RE CRIPPLED BY POSSIBILITIES
As we grow in maturity our perception of possibilities and explanations expands: we see life from limitless angles. This means that we see more than one way of doing things which makes us unfailingly indecisive as we see the full expanse of possibilities, and the lack of absolutes. Although making decisions and judgements can be a crippling experience, this can double as a virtue, allowing us to understand that we can’t simply judge people by face value, and that they are the result of millions of internal and external influences.
#10 YOU YEARN FOR A PLACE TO BELONG
For some Old Souls, the world feels alien. They find it hard to understand people, why such chaos and misery exists and how it is allowed, and sometimes encouraged, to continue. They long to find a place where they feel like they belong, a space filled with freedom and liberation. This often results in the feeling that this world is not their true home.
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Regardless of which of the above problems you may come across, these struggles will affect your life a lot less when you grow in inner understanding and acceptance.
The stronger your ability to channel and use the Old energy that is latent within you, the greater your capacity will be to aid in the continuation and evolution of your soul.
These topics about “black goo” are making some sense and I think chemtrails are spreading this “Gu”. And it’s the main reason why the World is what it is. This article is a follow-up to previous post about mind control:
The C.I.A.’s Most Heavily Used Mind Control Poison Is Gu , According To Classical Chinese Medicine It Is Hexagram 18 Is Entitled Gu
The C.I.A.’s Most Heavily Used Mind Control Poison Is Gu , According To Classical Chinese Medicine It Is Hexagram 18 Is Entitled Gu.
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The C.I.A.’s most heavily used poison is GU or hybrid Goo . This is a demonic mind manipulation and demonic possession poison heavily used by the C.I.A. and . It is made from putting a venomous snake in a bottle with a scorpion and a centipede and the one living has the strongest poison . Gu is as the verminous manifestation of evil that appears in a wide variety of toxic worms and insects are locked into a vessel ,where they naturally become one anther’s prey. GU in short is ancient Chinese symbol for extreme pathogen yin -the dark side of life , the worst nightmare of any human being it represent darkness,rottenness, slithering vermin,poisonous snakes,betrayal,black magic,pain and insanity. Gu hexagram 18 is entitled Gu ( the dark yin poison ) . Classical comments from Chinese medicine experts have remarked that this particular hexagram describes an energetic situation where an a feeble wind cannot penetrate the dense area at the mountains base,creating a gu syndrome that does not receive air and thus becomes decayed and rotten according to the movement. This is what they use to make the demonic gu poison. This is a old poison based in Chinese medicine. According to Chinese medicine one of the most effective cures is digestion of raw purple garlic . Also focusing on your breathing in your abdomen when you breath in and out. Visualize lightning and thunder in your stomach and it penetrating the darkest places of the body because this is were the gu parasites and flukes hide and tries to regenerate . Lighting and thunder are of the Yang energy of earth and the GU is of the dark / dark matter / light parasite and the negative energy of the yin . Chinese folklore-a gu spirit could transform into various animals, typically a worm,caterpillar, snake, frog, dog or pig . Black magic practice – such as manipulating sexual partners,creating malignant diseases and causing death. This gu was typically used by the wu and now still used by the free Masonic pedophile C.I.A. satanic occultist to kill innocent people and try to make it look natural or commit rape or typically what ever they do to gain control over the victims mind body and soul .
Gu :
The term gu 蠱, says Loewe (1990:191), “can be traced from the oracle bones until modern times, and has acquired a large number of meanings or connotations”. Before discussing gu, it is necessary to introduce the related word chong 蟲 “wug”. Chong 虫 or 蟲 (originally a “snake; worm” pictogram) “insect; bug; pest; worm; spider; amphibian; reptile; dragon; etc.” denotes a Chinese folk taxonomy lacking an adequate English translation equivalent. Carr (1983:7) proposes translating chong as “wug” – Brown’s (1979) portmanteau word (from worm + bug) bridging the lexical gap for the linguistically widespread “class of miscellaneous animals including insects, spiders, and small reptiles and amphibians”. Contrast the Wug test for investigating language acquisition of plurals in English morphology. Note that “wug” will translate chong below.
Oracle script for gu 蠱 “poison; bewitch” Seal script for gu 蠱 “poison; bewitch”
The Traditional Chinese character 蠱 and the Simplified 蛊 for gu “demonic poison” are “wugs inside in a container” ideograms that combine chong 蟲 or 虫 “wug” and min 皿 “jar; cup; dish; utensil”. Early written forms of gu 蠱 range from (ca. 14th-11th centuries BCE) Oracle bone script to (ca. 3rd century BCE) Seal script characters. The Oracle characters had two or one 虫 “wug” elements inside a container, while the Seal characters had three. Shima’s (1958:386) concordance of oracle bone inscriptions lists 23 occurrences of gu written with two wugs and 4 with one; many contexts are divinations about sickness. Marshall (2001:129) concludes, “The oracle-bone character of gu is used to refer to the evil power of the ancestors to cause illness in the living.”
Jincan :
Jincan 金蠶 “gold silkworm/caterpillar” is a gu synonym first recorded in the Tang Dynasty. Li Xian’s (7th century) commentary to the Hou Han Shu uses jincan as the name of a funerary decoration cast from gold, and the (9th century) author Su E 蘇鶚 describes it as a legendary golden-color caterpillar from Kashmir.
Eberhard (1968:149-150, cf. 153) connects gu, jincan, and other love charms with the Duanwu Festival that occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese calendar, which is “the theoretical apogee of summer heat” (Groot 1910 5:851).
Among the Miao on the fifth of the fifth month poisonous animals were put into a pot and allowed to devour each other, and they were called ‘gold-silkworms’. The more people were killed by the ku, the richer the kus owner became. In our time the normal term for ku has been ‘gold-silkworm’. These animals can make gold. It was typical for the gold-silkworm that people continued to feed this animal in the pot, that humans had to be sacrificed to it, that the animal kept the house clean and worked for its master like a brownie, but that it caused harm to its master if he did not provide proper sacrifices.
“For centuries, the Miao, particularly Miao women”, writes Schein (2000:50-51), “have been feared for their mastery of the so-called gu poison, which is said to inflict death from a distance with excruciating slowness.”
Groot (1910 5:854) quotes a Song Dynasty description.
A gold caterpillar is a caterpillar with a gold colour, which is fed with silk from Shuh (Szĕ-ch‘wen). Its ordure, put in food or drink, poisons those who take it, causing certain death. It can draw towards a man the possessions of such victims, and thus make him enormously rich. It is extremely difficult to get rid of it, for even water, fire, weapons or swords can do it no harm. Usually the owner for this purpose puts some gold or silver into a basket, places the caterpillar also therein, and throws the basket away in a corner of the street, where someone may pick it up and take it with him. He is then said to have given his gold caterpillar in marriage.
The Bencao Gangmu (tr. Groot 1910 5:850-851) quotes Cai Dao 蔡絛’s (12th century) Tieweishan congtan 鐵圍山叢談 that “gold caterpillars first existed” in the Shu region (present-day Sichuan), and “only in recent times did they find their way into” Hubei, Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guanxi. It also quotes (tr. Groot 1910 5:853-854) the Tang Dynasty pharmacologist Chen Cangqi (713-741 CE) that:
Ashes of old flowered silk are a cure for poison of ku of insects or reptiles which eat such silk. His commentator adds, that those insects are coiled up like a finger-ring, and eat old red silk and flowered silk, just as caterpillars eat leaves; hence, considered in the light of the present day, those insects are gold caterpillars.
Gu Meanings :
The Hanyu Da Zidian dictionary defines 9 gu 蠱 meanings, plus the rare reading ye 蠱 “bewitchingly pretty; seductive; coquettish” [妖艷].
(1) Poisoning from an abdominal wug [腹內中蟲食之毒]
(2) In ancient books, a type of artificially cultured poisonous wug [古籍中一種人工培養的毒蟲]
(3) Ghost of a person [convicted of gu-magic] whose severed head was impaled on a stake [臬磔死之鬼]
(4) Evil heat and noxious qi that harms humans [傷害人的熱毒惡氣]
(5) Wug pest that eats grain. [蛀蟲]
(6) Sorcery that harms humans [害人的邪術]
(7) Seduce; tempt; confuse; mislead [蠱惑, 誘惑, 迷惑]
(8) Affair; assignment [事]
(9) One of the 64 hexagrams. It is formed from [the trigrams] Gen 艮 [☶ Mountain]) over Xun 巽 [☴ Wind) [六十四卦之一. 卦形为…艮上巽下]
The (early 4th century BCE) Zuozhuan commentary to the (ca. 6th-5th centuries BCE) Chunqiu history provides an ancient example of 蠱’s polysemy. It records four gu meanings – 2.5 “grain which (molders and) flies away”, 2.6 “insanity”, 2.7 “delusion and disorder”, and 2.9 “same [hexagram] name” – in a 541 BCE story (昭公1, tr. Legge 1872:580-581) about a physician named He 和”Harmony” from Qin explaining gu to the ruler of Jin.
The marquis of [Jin] asked the help of a physician from [Qin], and the earl sent one [He] to see him, who said, “The disease cannot be cured, according to the saying that when women are approached, the chamber disease becomes like insanity. It is not caused by Spirits nor by food; it is that delusion which has destroyed the mind. Your good minister will [also] die; it is not the will of Heaven to preserve him.” The marquis said, “May women (then) not be approached?” The physician replied, “Intercourse with them must be regulated.” … [Zhao Meng] (further) asked what he meant by ‘insanity’; and (the physician) replied, “I mean that which is produced by the delusion and disorder of excessive sensual indulgence. Look at the character; – it is formed by the characters for a vessel and for insects (蠱 = 皿 and 蟲). It is also used of grain which (molders and) flies away. In the [Yijing], (the symbols of) a woman deluding a young man, (of) wind throwing down (the trees of) a mountain, go by the same name (蠱; ☶ under ☴): all these point to the same signification.” [Zhao Meng] pronounced him a good physician, gave him large gifts, and sent him back to [Qin].
Abdominal wug poisoning :
The “poisoning from abdominal wugs” or “abdominal parasites” meaning 2.1 first appears in the (121 CE) Shuowen Jiezi dictionary, cf. 2.3 below. It defines gu 蠱 as 腹中蟲也, literally “stomach middle wug”, (tr. Loewe 1970:192) “insects within the stomach”. However, Duan Yucai’s (1815 CE) commentary construes this definition as “afflicted by abdominal wugs”; and explains that instead of the usual readings zhōng 中 “middle; center; interior” and chóng 蟲 “wug”, both terms should be read in entering tone, namely zhòng 中 “hit (a target); be hit by” and zhòng 蟲 “wug bites”.
Cultivated poisonous wug :
The second gu meaning “anciently recorded type of artificially cultured poisonous wug” names the survivor of several venomous creatures enclosed in a container, and transformed into a type of demon or spirit.
The Zhouli ritual text (秋官司寇, tr. Groot 1910 5:826) describes a Shushi 庶氏 official who, “was charged with the duty of exterminating poisonous ku, attacking this with spells and thus exorcising it, as also with the duty of attacking it with efficacious herbs; all persons able to fight ku he was to employ according to their capacities.” Zheng Xuan’s commentary explains dugu 毒蠱 “poisonous gu” as “wugs that cause sickness in people”.
Dismembered sorcerer’s ghost :
Gu meaning 2.3 “ghost of a person whose severed head was impaled on a stake” refers to the severe Han Dynasty “dismemberment (as tortuous capital punishment)” for criminals convicted of practicing gu-sorcery (see 2.6). Groot (1910 5:840) “Plate VI, Punishment of Cutting Asunder” provides a gruesome illustration. The Zhouli commentary of Zheng Xuan (cf. 2.2, tr. Loewe 1970:195) notes, “Those who dare to poison people with ku or teach others to do it will be publicly executed”.
Eberhard (1968:152) says gu, “was also the soul of a dead person whose head had been pitted on a pole. This, too, fits later reports, in so far as the souls of ku victims often are mentioned as servants of the master of ku, if not ku itself served the master.”
The Shuowen Jiezi (cf. 2.1 above, tr. Loewe 1970:195) also defines gu as “the spirits of convicted criminals whose heads had been exposed on stakes.” This specialized torture term niejie 臬磔 combines nie “target” (which pictures a person’s 自 “nose” on a 木 “tree; wooden stand”) and jie 磔 “dismemberment”. Compare the character for xian 縣 “county; district” that originated as a “place where dismembered criminals were publicly displayed” pictograph of an upside-down 首 “head” hanging on a 系 “rope” tied to a 木 “tree”.
Groot (1910 5:828) suggests this meaning of gu, “seems to reveal to us a belief that such a soul, roaming restlessly about because of its corpse being mutilated, must be avenging itself on the living by settling in their intestines in the shape of the same maggots and grubs which gnaw away its decaying head.”
As the legal measures of individual dynasties demonstrate, administrative officials viewed ku as a reality, as late as the nineteenth century. The primary host was considered a criminal; a person guilty of the despicable act of preparing and administering ku poison was executed, occasionally with his entire family, in a gruesome manner. In addition to the obvious desire to punish severely criminal practices that could result in the death of the victim, it is possible that Confucian distaste for the accumulation of material goods, and above all for the resulting social mobility, contributed to this attitude. Indeed, the penalties of the use of ku poison appear to have been more severe than those for other forms of murder.
Heat miasma :
The fourth meaning of “evil heat and noxious qi that harms humans” refers to allegedly sickness-causing emanations of tropical miasma. “There was also an ancient belief that ku diseases were induced by some sort of noxious mist or exhalation”, writes Schafer (1967:102), “just as it was also believed that certain airs and winds could generate worms”.
The Shiji (秦本紀, tr. Groot 1910 5:827) records that in 675 BCE, Duke De 德公 of Qin “suppressed ku at the commencement of the hottest summer-period by means of dogs. According to commentators, these animals were for the purpose butchered and affixed to the four gates of the capital.” The
Tang Dynasty commentary of Zhang Shoujie 張守節 explains gu as “hot, poisonous, evil, noxious qi that harms people”. Displaying gu dogs at city gates reflects meaning 2.3 above.
Besides shapeshifting gu spirits usually appearing as wugs, classical texts record other animal forms. The (ca. 350 CE) Soushenji “In Search of the Supernatural” (tr. Groot 1910 5:846-847) says,
In P‘o-yang (in the north of the present Kiangsi pr.) one Chao Shen kept canine ku. Once, when he was called on by Ch‘en Ch‘en, six or seven big yellow dogs rushed out at this man, all at once barking at him. And when my paternal uncle, on coming home, had a meal with Chao Sheu’s wife, he spit blood, and was saved from death in the nick of time by a drink prepared from minced stalks of an orange-tree. Ku contains spectral beings or spectres, which change their spectral shapes into those of beings of various kinds, such as dogs or swine, insects or snakes, their victims thus never being able to know what are their real forms. When they are put into operation against people, those whom they hit or touch all perish. Tsiang Shi, the husband of my wife’s sister, had a hired work-man in employ, who fell sick and passed blood. The physician opined that he was stricken by ku, and secretly, without informing him of it, strewed some jang-ho root under his sleeping-mat. The patient then madly exclaimed: “The ku which devours me is ceasing to spread”; and then he cried: “It vanishes little by little.” The present generations often make use of jang-ho root to conquer ku, and now and then it has a good effect. Some think it is ‘the efficacious herb’, mentioned in the Cheu li
This ranghe 蘘荷 “myoga ginger” is a renowned antidote to gu poisoning, see below.
The Shanhaijing (南山經, tr. Birrell 2000:4) says the meat of a mythical creature on Mount Greenmound prevents miasmic gu poisoning, “There is an animal on this mountain that looks like a fox, but has nine tails. It makes a noise like a baby. It can devour humans. Whoever eats it will not be affected by malign forces.” The commentary of Guo Pu notes this creature’s meat will make a person immune to the effects of supernatural qi.
A Tang Dynasty account of Nanyue people (tr. Schafer 1967:102) describes gu miasma:
The majority are diseased, and ku forms in their bloated bellies. There is a vulgar tradition of making ku from a concentration of the hundred kinds of crawling creatures, for the purpose of poisoning men. But probably it is the poisonous crawlers of that hot and humid land which produce it – not just the cruel and baleful nature of the householders beyond the mountain passes.
Wug pest :
The “wug pest that eats grain” or “grain that transforms into wugs” meaning 2.5 is seen above in the Zuozhuan explanation of gu as “grain which (molders and) flies away”. The (ca. 3rd century BCE) Erya dictionary (6/21) defines gu 蠱 as pests in kang 糠 “chaff”, written with the phonetic loan character kang 康 “healthy”. The (ca. 543 CE) Yupian dictionary defines gu as “longstanding grain that transforms into flying insects”.
Groot (1910 5:827) connects this gu “grain pest” meaning with 2.1 “internal parasites” and 2.7 “debauchery”.
Thus the term ku also included the use of philtre-maggots by women desirous of exciting the lusts of men and attracting them into debauchery. And, evidently, ku was also used to destroy crops or food-stores, or, as the learned physician expressed it, to make the corn fly away, perhaps in the form of winged insects born therein; indeed, the character for ku is regularly used in literature to denote devastating grubs and insects, including internal parasites of the human body, which exercise a destructive influence like poison.
Sorcery :
Gu meaning 2.6 “sorcery that harms humans” or “cast damaging spells” is exemplified in the Modern Standard Chinese words wugu 巫蠱 (with “shaman”) “sorcery; art of casting spells” and gudu 蠱毒 (with “poison”) “a venomous poison (used in Traditional Chinese medicine); enchant and injure; cast a harmful spell over”.
Gu-sorcery allegedly resulted in a debilitating psychological condition, often involving hallucinations. The Zuozhuan (宣公8, tr. Legge 1872:302) records that in 601 BCE, Xu Ke 胥克 of Jin was discharged from office because he had gu, “an illness which unsettled his mind”. The Qing Dynasty philologist Yu Yue 俞樾 etymologically connects this meaning of gu 蠱 with gu 痼 “chronic, protracted (illness)”. Guji 蠱疾 “insanity; derangement; condition caused by excessive sexual activities” is a comparable word.
The Hanshu provides details of wugu-sorcery scandals and dynastic rivalries in the court of Emperor Wu (r. 141-87 BCE), which Schafer (1967:103) calls “notorious dramas of love and death”.
This early Chinese history (tr. Loewe 1970:169) records that in 130 BCE, a daughter of Empress Chen Jiao (who was unable to bear a son) was accused of practicing wugu and maigu 埋蠱 “bury a witchcraft charm [under a victim’s path or dwelling]” (cf. voodoo doll). The “empress was dismissed from her position and a total of 300 persons who were involved in the case were executed”; specifically (tr. Groot 1910 5:828) “their heads were all exposed on stakes” (cf. 2.3). This history claims wu 巫 “shamans” from Yue conducted the gu magic, which Eberhard (1968:152) notes, “seems to have consisted, at least in part, of magic human figures buried under the road which the emperor, the intended victim, was supposed to take”.
Accusations of practicing wugu-magic were central to the 91 BCE (Wugu zhi huo 巫蠱之禍) attempted coup against crown prince Liu Ju by Jiang Chong 江充 and Su Wen 蘇文. The Hanshu (tr. Groot 1910 5:836) claims that, “no less than nine long months of bloody terrorism, ending in a tremendous slaughter, cost some tens of thousands their lives!”
Traditional Chinese law strictly prohibited practicing gu-sorcery. For instance, during the reign of Tang Empress Wu Zetian, Schafer (1967:103) says,
The possession of ku poison, like the casting of horoscopes, was cause for official suspicion and action: At that time many tyrannical office holders would orders robbers to bury ku or to leave prophecies in a man’s household by night. Then, after the passage of a month, they would secretly confiscate it.
Seduce :
This gu meaning 2.7 of “seduce; bewitch; attract; confuse; mislead; bewilder” is evident in the Standard Chinese words yaogu 妖蠱 “bewitch by seductive charms”, gumei 蠱媚 “bewitch/charm by sensual appeal”, and guhuo 蠱惑 “confuse by magic; enchant; seduce into wrongdoing”. “Ku-poisoning was also associated with demoniac sexual appetite – an idea traceable back to Chou times”, says Schafer (1967:103), “This notion evidently had its origins in stories of ambiguous love potions prepared by the aboriginal women of the south.
The Zuozhuan (莊公28, tr. Legge 1872:115) uses gu in a story that in the 7th century BCE, Ziyuan 子元, the chief minister of Chu, “wished to seduce the widow” of his brother King Wen of Zhou. The Mozi (非儒下, tr. Mei 1929:208) uses gu to criticize Confucius, who “dresses elaborately and puts on adornments to mislead the people.” The Erya (1B/49, cf. 2.5 above) defines gu 蠱, chan 諂 “doubt; flatter”, and er 貳 “double-hearted; doubtful” as yi 疑 “doubt; suspect; fear; hesitate”. Guo Pu’s commentary suggests this refers to gu meaning “deceive; seduce”.
Many later accounts specify women as gu-magic practitioners. Eberhard (1968:149) explains,
We know that among many aborigines of the south women know how to prepare love charms which were effective even at a distance. In these reports it was almost invariably stated that the love charm had a fatal effect if the man, to whom the charm was directed, did not return to the woman at a specified time.
Affair :
The least-attested gu 蠱 meaning 2.8 of “affair; event” first appears in the (3rd century CE) Guangya dictionary, which defines gu as shi 事 “assignment; affair; event; thing; matter; trouble”.
The Yijing Gu hexagram (see 2.9) “Line Variations” repeatedly refer to parental gu with the enigmatic phrases 幹父之蠱 “gan-father’s gu” and 幹母之蠱 “gan-mother’s gu“. Wang Niansun quotes an Yijing commentary that gu means shi, and proposes gu 蠱 is a phonetic loan character for gu 故 “reason; cause; event; incident”. Commentarial tradition takes gan 幹 “trunk; framework; do; work” to mean chi 飭 “put in order”, and Richard Wilhelm (1967:75) translates “Setting right what has been spoiled by the father” and “Setting right what has been spoiled by the mother”. Arthur Waley (1933:132) follows an ancient interpretation that gan 幹 is a variant Chinese character for gan 干 “stem; Celestial stem; day of the (10-day) week; involve”, translating “stem-father’s maggots” and “stem-mother’s maggots”, explaining
It is surely obvious that the maggots referred to are those which appeared in the flesh of animals sacrificed to the spirits of dead parents, who after their death were, for reasons of taboo, only known by the name of the day upon which they were born, being merely a fuller way of writing ‘stem’, ‘day of the week’.
Hexagram 18 Hexagram 18 :
Gu 蠱 names the Yì-Jīng Hexagram 18, which is translated as “Destruction” (Z.D. Sung 1935), “Work on What Has Been Spoiled [Decay]” (Richard Wilhelm 1967), “Decay” (John Blofeld 1965), “Degeneration” (Thomas Cleary 1986), “Poison, Destruction” (Wu Jing-Nuan 1991), and “Ills to Be Cured” (Richard John Lynn 1994). Wilhelm (1967:75) explains translating “decay” for 蠱.
The Chinese character ku represents a bowl in whose contents worms are breeding. This means decay. It has come about because the gentle indifference in the lower trigram has come together with the rigid inertia of the upper, and the result is stagnation. Since this implies guilt, the conditions embody a demand for removal of the cause. Hence the meaning of the hexagram is not simply “what has been spoiled” but “work on what has been spoiled.”
“The Judgment” (tr. Wilhelm 1967:75): “WORK ON WHAT HAS BEEN SPOILED Has supreme success. It furthers one to cross the great water. Before the starting point, three days. After the starting point, three days.” “The Image” (tr. Wilhelm 1967:76) reads: “The wind blows low on the mountain: The image of DECAY. Thus the superior man stirs up the people, And strengthens their spirit.”
In the Zuozhuan (僖公15, tr. Legge 1872:167), divination of this Gu hexagram foretells Qin conquering Jin, “A lucky response; cross the Ho; the prince’s chariots are defeated.”
Gu techniques :
According to ancient gu traditions, explain Joseph Needham and Wang Ling (1956:136), “the poison was prepared by placing many toxic insects in a closed vessel and allowing them to remain there until one had eaten all the rest – the toxin was then extracted from the survivor.” They note, “It is strange to think that this same method has been successfully employed in our own times for the isolation of strains of soil bacteria capable of attacking the tuberculosis bacillus”.
Feng and Shryock (1935:1) describe contemporary practices of gu.
At present, ku is used primarily as a means of acquiring wealth; secondarily as a means of revenge. The method is to place poisonous snakes and insects together in a vessel until there is but one survivor, which is called the ku. The poison secured from this ku is administered to the victim, who becomes sick and dies. The ideas associated with ku vary, but the ku is generally regarded as a spirit, which secures the wealth of the victim for the sorcerer.
Eberhard (1968:152) summarizes gu practices.
The essence of ku, then, was the magic charm that could be prepared out of the surviving animal in the pot. It could be used as a love charm with the object of forcing the loved male to come back to the woman. The ku could be used also as an evil magic with the object of obtaining subservient spirits. This was done by feeding it to unrelated persons who would either spit blood or whose stomachs would swell because of the food they had taken would become alive in their insides, and who would die as a result; similar to the gold-silkworms, their souls had to be servants of the owner of the ku.
The 4th-century Soushenji (cf. 2.4, tr. Feng and Shryock 1935:7) records that gu breeding was a profitable but dangerous profession in the Honan region.
In the province of Yung-yang, there was a family by the name of Liao. For several generations they manufactured ku, becoming rich from it. Later one of the family married, but they kept the secret from the bride. On one occasion, everyone went out except the bride, who was left in charge of the house. Suddenly she noticed a large cauldron in the house, and on opening it, perceived a big snake inside. She poured boiling water into the cauldron and killed the snake. When the rest of the family returned she told them what she had done, to their great alarm. Not long after, the entire family died of the plague.
Feng and Shryock (1935:11-12) describe how 20th-century Zhuang women in Guangxi elaborately produced gu during the Duanwu Festival (see jincan above).
Ku poison is not found generally among the people (i.e., the Chinese), but is used by the T’ung women. It is said that on the fifth day of the fifth month, they go to a mountain stream and spread new clothes and headgear on the ground, with a bowl of water beside them. The women dance and sing naked, inviting a visit from the King of Medicine (a tutelary spirit). They wait until snakes, lizards, and poisonous insects come to bathe in the bowl. They pour the water out in a shadowy, dark place. Then they gather the fungus which grows there, which they make into a paste. They put this into goose-feather tubes and hide them in their hair. The heat of their bodies causes worms to generate, which resemble newly-hatched silk-worms. Thus ku is produced. It is often concealed in a warm, dark place in the kitchen. The newly made ku is not yet poisonous. It is used as a love potion, administered in food and drink and called “love-medicine.” Gradually the ku becomes poisonous. As the poison develops, the woman’s body itches until she has poisoned someone. If there is no other opportunity, she will poison even her husband or her sons. But she possesses antidotes. It is believed that those who produce ku themselves become ku after death. The ghosts of those who have died from the poison become their servants.
Gu remedies :
Groot (1910 5:861-869) and Eberhard (1968:152-3) detail numerous Chinese antidotes and cures for gu poison-magic. For instance (see 2.4), the Shanhaijing claimed eating a legendary creature’s meat would prevent gu and the Soushenji prescribed ranghe 蘘荷 “myoga ginger”. Unschuld (1985:47) says
Prescription literature was filled with antidotes. All known Chinese conceptual systems of healing dealt with the ku phenomenon and developed therapeutic strategies that were in accord with their basic principles. The Buddhists recommended prayers and conjurations, thus utilizing the same methods as practitioners of demonic medicine. In pharmaceutical literature, drugs of a plant, animal, or mineral origin were described as effective against ku poisoning. Adherents of homeopathic magic recommended the taking of centipedes, since it was known that centipedes consume worms.
The Zhou houbei jifang 肘後備急方 (tr. Groot 1910 5:862), which is attributed to Ge Hong, describes gu diagnosis and cure with ranghe:
A patient hurt by ku gets cutting pains at his heart and belly as if some living thing is gnawing there; sometimes he has a discharge of blood through the mouth or the anus. If he is not forthwith medically treated, it devours his five viscera, which entails his death. To discover whether it is ku or not, let the patient spit into water; if the spittle sinks, it is ku; if it floats, it is not. The recipe for discovering the name of the owner of the ku poison is as follows: take the skin of a drum, burn it, a small piece at a time, pulverize the ashes, and let the patient drink them with water; he will then forthwith mention the name; then bid this owner forthwith to remove the ku, and the patient will recover immediately. Again place some jang-ho leaves secretly under the mattress of the patient; he will then of his own accord immediately mention the name of the owner of the ku
Many gu-poison antidotes are homeopathic, in Western terms. The 8th-century pharmacologist Chen Cangqi (tr. Groot 1910 5:866) explains using venomous creatures both to produce and cure gu-poison.
In general reptiles and insects, which are used to make ku, are cures for ku; therefore, if we know what ku is at work, we may remedy its effects. Against ku of snakes that of centipedes should be used, against ku of centipedes that of frogs, against ku of frogs that of snakes, and so on. Those varieties of ku, having the power of subduing each other, may also have a curative effect .
Needham and Wang (1956:136) say prescribing gu poison as a cure or preventive suggests “that someone had stumbled on an immunisation process”, and suggest scorpion-venom and centipede-venom as possible toxins.
Chen (tr. Schafer 1967:102, cf. Groot 1910 5:847) further describes catching and preparing medicine from the shapeshifting gu creature that,
… can conceal its form, and seem to be a ghost or spirit, and make misfortune for men. But after all it is only a reptile ghost. If one of them has bitten a person to death, it will sometimes emerge from one of that man’s apertures. Watch and wait to catch it and dry it in the warmth of the sun; then, when someone is afflicted by the ku, burn it to ashes and give him a dose of it. Being akin, to it, the one quite naturally subdues the other.
Besides such homeopathic remedies, Schafer (1967:103) says one could,
give ku derived from particularly venomous creatures to overcome that taken from less lethal creatures. Thus centipede ku could be overcome by frog ku; serpent ku would prevail over frog ku, and so on. There were also soberer, though almost as powerful remedies: asafetida, python bile, civet, and a white substance taken from cock’s dung were all used. It is not certain what real maladies these repellent drugs, cured, or seemed to cure. Probably they ranged from the psychosomatic to the virus-born. Many oedematous conditions were called ku, and it has been plausibly suggested that some cases were caused by intestinal parasites (hence the constant worm motif). Others are attributable to fish poisons and arrow poisons concocted by the forest dwellers.
Chinese folklore claims the definitive cure for gu-magic is passing it on to a greedy person. Eberhard (1968:153) says,
The most common way to get rid of the ku (just as of brownies and the golden-silkworm) was to give it away as a present. The actions of a man in Chang-chou (Fukien) are rather uncommon. He found on the ground a package containing three large silver bars wrapped in silk and in addition a ku which looked like a frog (ha-ma); in spite of the danger he took it; at night two large frogs appeared which he cooked and ate; on the next night more than ten smaller frogs appeared which he also ate up; and he continued consuming all frogs that kept appearing until the magic was cast off; in this fashion the man suffered no ill effects from the ku poison.
From descriptions of gu poisoning such involving “swollen abdomen, emaciation, and the presence of worms in the body orifices of the dead or living”, Unschuld (1985:48) reasons, “Such symptoms allow a great number of possible explanations and interpretations”. He suggests attitudes toward gu were based upon fear of others, envy, and greed. “But the concept of ku is unknown outside of China. Instead, one finds what may be its conceptual equivalent, the “evil eye”, present in all “envy societies”.”
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most people and one of the largest cities in the world . If Texas put it to a vote Houston would win . Austin is the nazi satanic Scottish Rite Skull and Bones / C.I.A. Bush lodge/ lounge that lost in so many ways to count how bad these pedophile free masons have shown us what they do time and time again . Now it is time to show them what we do . Then you have Dallas that has no true commodities , financially speaking . Other than being known for the masonic rituals they called the killing of the kings , the three wise men . The killing of the Kings was the assassination of the 3 wise men who would have made a better future for the planet . Martin Luther king was the first king , them Malcolm X and then J.F.K. . This was called the killing of the kings in sacrificial Masonic cult circles . A Fact they pride themselves on and worship yearly in secret . You all know it as the J.F.K. assassination and all the other assignations that were systematically carried out by the Kkk , C.I.A. nazi cult . ( Fact ) The only thing Dallas can trade is money and has no known true commodity other than trading or laundering money for the crime organization known as the Rothschild . This evil international crime family owns / owned and created the thieving I.R.S. mafia ( Show me the Law that says I have to pay taxes on my work I.R.S. , It does not exist ) This is a Feds enforced lie and out right theft of property and land ext !! This is the true nature of the nazi Rothschild’s Federal reserve crime syndicate . The Federal Reserve prints the Euro and the Dollar and forced on you to call it money . It is satanic occult symbolistic symbolism occult hex / curse paper that they want you to call money . Um more commodities come into and out of Houston than Dallas could ever dream of . So why do I / we need you to tell us what to do with our new gold backed money ? ( Fact ) . Dallas does not have a shipping coast and a sea line and all the other valuable commodities Houston has . Thank you for you time , please share and stay aware . Nazi Rothschild ( satanic Rothschilds created the U.N. ) created U.N.’s Jade helm and Fema camps are here in Texas . I am just keeping it real .
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