In games, on TV, actually. . Gu release is also called "grass ghost". Together with driving corpses, it is also known as the two ancient mysteries in western Hunan. Poison is a kind of poisonous powder that has been tested to be non-toxic. The so-called poisoning is to put a special medicinal powder into food, so that the person who accidentally eats it will become confused and controlled by the person who ingested it. The methods of making this kind of medicinal powder are all kinds of strange, and there is no fixed formula. They are usually passed down from family to family. There are as many kinds of poisonous medicine as there are grass witches (common name for those who cast poison). Although the methods of making poisonous medicine are different, the main powders are similar. "Fenghuang County Chronicle" records that the main powders used by Fenghuang grass ghosts to make poisonous medicine are snakes, centipedes, ants, toads, etc. The grass hag collected all these poisons, dried them, ground them into powder, packed them in jars, and hid them in the foothills for a period of time before turning them into poisonous poisons. The "Huaihua Dictionary" states that the Gu makers in Jingzhou, Huangzhou and other places take snakes, scorpions, centipedes, cockroaches, spiders, etc. and hide them in jars, and expose them to the sun, rain and dew so that they can eat each other. insanity. The maker of the poison dries it in the sun and grinds it into powder, which becomes the poison powder. If a person who accidentally eats poisonous poison does not receive timely treatment, he or she may die from heart attack in a matter of days or years. Although the poison of Gu is severe, its toxicity is difficult to test. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the masses in western Hunan called for the eradication of poisonous poisons. To this end, the county and state governments carried out large-scale confiscation of folk poisonous poisons, and centralized study and education of grass ghosts. "Luxi County Chronicle" records that in 1962, the county public security bureau sent some medicines confiscated from the private sector that were said to be poisonous medicines to relevant departments in Beijing for testing. The conclusion of the laboratory test is: "It has been tested to be non-toxic and there is no need to spread rumors." Although the national medical department has denied the poison, modern medical equipment cannot find out which functions of the body of the poisoned person have been damaged, and cannot confirm the existence of the poison. In Xiangxi, there are reports of people being poisoned from time to time. People would rather believe in the poison than believe that it doesn't exist. People who know the truth generally don't eat other people's food lightly when going out to prevent being accidentally poisoned. Poison is a unique weapon used by Miao women to defend their family and love. Not all people in Xiangxi will play poison. The technology of poisoning is mainly in the hands of Miao women in western Hunan. Gu release is different from other secret techniques of passing on sons but not daughters. On the contrary, it is passed on only to daughters but not to sons. The mother of Lao Xiang, deputy director of the Yuanling County Ethnic Affairs Committee, is a well-known gynecological herbalist in Qingshuiping Miao Township. It is said that she has done a lot of research on Miao voodoo techniques and medicines. Lao Xiang later published an article saying that in 1967, his 70-year-old mother once revealed to him that when the Miao girls grew up to 17 or 18 years old, their mother, in order to teach her daughter to know some self-defense skills, would not let others attack her. If she is bullied, she will secretly teach her daughter the knowledge of making and releasing poisons. It is extremely rare for Miao girls who have learned how to use poison to harm others. They mainly use poison to defend their families and love. There are many names for the poisons in Xiangxi. According to the main ingredients, they include centipede poison, lizard poison, cockroach poison, etc. However, when used in real life, they can be divided into three categories: love poison, fear poison, and hate poison. These three kinds of poison are magic weapons for women in Xiangxi to monopolize love and maintain family stability. Love poison is a kind of poison cast by women in order to get the man they like but is hard to get. Men who fall under the love poison are often involuntarily seduced by love and would rather give up their existing happiness and empathize without hesitation. To those who play poison. It is said that in the mid-1950s, there was a young man named Shi in Qiping Township, Yuanling, who married a Miao girl named Xiaomei. Later, the two divorced because they couldn't get along. Not long after, the young man married a girl named Cuicui. After the little sister heard the news, she felt regretful and resentful, and was determined to take the young man back from Cuicui's hands. So I tried my best to find an opportunity, scooped up some cold water with tung leaves, secretly poisoned it with love, and gave it to the young man to drink. Ever since the young man drank this cold water, he couldn't let go of his little sister. Although Cuicui relied on him in every possible way, he always had no choice but to secretly have trysts with his little sister. Cuicui knew that he had fallen under the love spell of his little sister. She once went behind his back and cried to her little sister to take away the poison. The little sister refused, but Cuicui had no choice but to leave the young man and let him return to her little sister. Fear of poison is also commonly known as fear of medicine. In Xiangxi, it is common for husbands to be afraid of their wives and daughters-in-law to be afraid of their mother-in-law. Some people explained that this was all due to the fear of poison. I once had a neighbor. The man was a butcher and the woman was a textile worker. They had two daughters. The man probably disliked his wife for not having a son, so he often went out to live with other women, sometimes not coming home for several days or even half a month. Even when he went home occasionally, he always beat and scolded his wife, and even forced her to sign for divorce. The wife couldn't bear it anymore, so she secretly put the medicine into the man's tea jar.
Strangely enough, after that, although men still often stayed out at night, beating their wives rarely happened. The people also languished a lot, and obviously lacked the fierceness of the past. Probably because they are afraid that the poison can easily make men masculine, so women in Xiangxi do not use this poison on men as a last resort. Even if it is used as a last resort, the dosage is very small. It is enough to make the man feel a little afraid of her. No woman wants her man to be dull and dull and lack of masculinity. It is said that this kind of poison is mostly given by mothers-in-law to their daughters-in-law, and wives to their husbands. I don’t know how much of these claims can be believed. Among the three types of poisonous poisons, the Shuhate Gu is the most terrifying. This kind of voodoo is usually a kind of voodoo cast by a wife who has no choice but to cast it on her husband when his husband is snatched away by another woman. The purpose is to force the husband to change his mind. The elders in western Hunan say that if you are infected by the hate poison and don't know how to return, you will most likely die. Hate poison is actually a chronic poison with a long incubation period in the human body. It usually takes six months to take effect and symptoms of the poison appear. In longer cases, it may take two or three years to show symptoms. The length of time is mainly determined by the person who releases the poison. In a village in Wusu Township, Yuanling, there was a bricklayer named Zhang in the early years. When he was out making tiles, he fell in love with another woman and did not go home during the Chinese New Year. His wife, Mrs. Li, was very sad to know that he was flirting with women outside. One year on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month, Mrs. Li took her baby on her back and went to the mountains to find her husband. She happened upon him and the woman playing in the tile shed. She was very sad and persuaded her husband to stop burning tiles and follow her back to the village. The man refused. In desperation, she became cruel and secretly poisoned the man's wine with a poison of hatred. When parting, she repeatedly hinted to the man: "If you are sick, come back to the village as soon as possible. The third sister's father is a doctor who can cure all kinds of diseases." I don't know if Zhang Bricklayer didn't understand his wife's hint, or he had given up and didn't want to go back to the village again. My own poor village. In the third year, he finally died of inexplicable pain. If the grass hag does not release the poison, it will harm the women who can release the poison themselves. Xiangxi has a habit of calling them grass hag. Because of the fear of poison, grass hags are often discriminated against by people. Everyone fears and hates them, so they stay away from them. For this reason, the identity of the grass hag is generally kept secret, and she is careful not to let others know that she can cast poison. Although the grass hags are very careful to keep their identities secret, their practice of making and releasing poisons will cause certain physiological changes. People can sometimes identify them based on these characteristics. Once a grass hag learns to release the poison, she must find someone to release it every once in a while, otherwise the poison will attack her body and cause her great pain or even death. Therefore, when it is necessary to cast a spell and no one else can do it, one's relatives become the targets of the spell. There are so many different ways to spread poison, making it hard to guard against. Usually, the grass ghost woman hides the poison powder in her fingernails, and then pops it into the cup without anyone noticing while serving tea and water or picking up vegetables and toasting. Some village cadres in rural areas of western Hunan, because their mothers or grandmothers are witches, will take the initiative to put their mothers or grandmothers in another room when the township cadres arrive at home, and will not allow her to come out to help with tea and rice, fearing that the poison will harm the township cadres. . Township cadres often bring their own drinking water when they go to villages prone to be poisoned, and the villagers don't think it's strange. The anti-pig medicine usually comes secretly from the poison. The person who has been poisoned must resolve it in time, otherwise it will cause unexpected harm to the body. The symptoms of poisoning are usually weakness, blurred vision, and hair loss. However, it is difficult for hospitals to detect the disease. Therefore, the poison cannot be cured in the hospital, and you need the help of someone who cast the poison to save you. Not all grass hags can remove poison. The antidote to the poison is the same as the poison medicine, there are many kinds, usually there is one antidote for each poison, and often the antidote for a kind of poison can only be mastered by the grass witch who cast this poison. But if the witch put a poison on someone, she would never dare to say that it was her who put the poison, and blatantly come to give you the antidote. At this time, she will often hint to you that you can go to someone to resolve the poison you have. And before that, she would suggest the method of undoing the poison to someone through visiting each other. Therefore, those who are poisoned will naturally get the right antidote if they go to a certain sect. Why there are so many kinds of poisonous poisons, and how they can escape detection by modern medical equipment and technological means, is really a difficult mystery to solve. Hopefully it only exists as a legend and not a reality.