i'm a temple helper. the following pic was captured during a ritual in a cemetery.
the following is one of my few true stories i posted on my blog.
part 1
This incident was happened many years ago on a public holiday that fall on a Sunday in 1998. I was then sleeping tastefully and was suddenly disturbed by a phone called from the ki tong 乩童 ( medium ) of my temple. I was told to rush down to our temple for an urgent session. I knew only later that it was because of a spirit that has possessed on a young lady and a deity dee ya pek 二爷伯 ( hell deity ) was appointed to take the job. By the time i reached the temple at about 11am, i saw a young lady already sitting inside our temple just beside our 'yim tua' altar ( altar setup with hell deities statues ). i walked near to her and hurriedly setup the altar for preparation to invite the deity dee ya pek. That was my virgin experienced coming so closely with a human body that is now possess with a spirit inside her. And it was still inside her. My feeling then was very tense. She keep staring at me becos i was just standing beside her. she looked lost but calm and could be wondering what are we trying to do to her. I presume 'she' was not a Taoist.
Half an hour later, everything are ready now to invite our guest-of-honour mr. dee ya pek. Except that we don't have a red carpet for him. Well, the dee ya pek came pretty fast and fury even before we finish chanting our jiu 咒. This is very unusual. Anyway, just to add, that lady was even enjoying and swinging her arms like those ku tai 古代 ancient time dancer performing singing for the emperor while we were playing our chanting (jiu) during the invitation. As i said before, maybe 'she' was really not a Taoist and has not seen a dee ya pek before. Or maybe she thought that we are there to invite her for a buffet lunch. We dressed him ( dee ya pek ) up as usual and make sure he is served with a cup of hot chinese tea before he proceed. A very fiece loud BANG! was the next thing i heard while putting back the tea cup. It was dee ya pek whom slammed his palm hard onto his working desk, really very hard. He then pointing one finger into the face of that possessed lady and asked her "what are you trying to do 你在搞什麽???!!!!" very fiercely in hokkien.
I can see that she looked anxious, helpless and was at a shocking stage now. Why did i say this is because she was behaving less concerned before the appearance of dee ya pek. Now, i can read through her impression shown on her face that she indeed seeing something, she must have saw something that we human around cannot be seen through our naked eyes now. She must have saw the spirit of our deity dee ya pek which is now possessed on our ki tong ( medium ). If you are a Taoist, you should know that dee ya pek is a deity ( hell constable ) with boiling hot temper and is very impatient as far as talking to an irresponsible wandering spirit is concerned. So, dee ya pek is expecting for a lightning speed answer from every single question he is going to throw on her. But, that possessed lady or should i says the spirit was seem to be testing the patience of dee ya pek. She was keeping numb or maybe too shocking to answer that she doesn't utter a word to his first angryful question. Dee ya pek is furious by now, he was hot, so hot that i think he could simply boil a raw egg on his palm. He gave a stern and firm warning to the possessed lady with a finger pointing right at her face angrily. He said " You better tell me the truth without delay, if not, i will not hesitate to issue a spell on you and i will make sure you would not be reincarnation 永不超身 anymore!" ( this remarks has been clearly engraved in my mind ) This time, she speak softly to dee ya pek, "是她们先来找我的!" ( " I was disturbed by them first " ) Dee ya pek asked again "where is the place happened??" And this time, she keep numb again. Dee ya pek sibey furious liao. Obviously, he lost his cool by now. Before i could read what he wanted, dee ya pek pulled a paper fu out from a stack of paper talisma on his altar with his left arm, drew a blush with his right arm at the speed of lighning, put some strokes of blushes with spell on the paper fu - talisma, asked for fire to be ignited onto the paper fu - talisma, the next thing is...SLAMMED the burning paper fu right on the forehead of the possessed lady! i guess no nonsense is the moto for dee ya pek. And need not for me to comment, he is not a good negotiator. haha
The young lady sitting on the chair knocked out immediately. Motionless like those sleeping beauty in the cartoon. I tell u, i saw smoke came out from her nose the moment the dee ya pek slammed onto her forehead. I sweared! It was really very amazing to see that. On the other hand, i felt very sorry for that spirit. But we have no other choice, spirit and human are like beer and driving, they can't mix together. Remember the possessed lady knocked out on the chair? Yes, dont forget her, she is the super star of the story. We hurriedly used a cleansed water, spelled it and slammed on her forehead again to wake her up. It was exactly like those we did to the ki tong after a session. She is awake now and she doesn't know how she came to the temple. She sobbed, looked pale and sleepless. All she knew was that she heard some voices talking to her last night and she could sensed something was following her home after she and a group of friends went for a midnite 'shopping' spree at the Old Changi Hospital. ( for the benefit of the foreigner, old changi hospital is an abandon old hospital used during the WWII. It is a haunted place now after it has been swifted the whole operation to another newly built hospital.)
Hey, don't pay too much attention to the lady super star leh! remember our male super star dee ya pek? He was still sitting on his dragon chair while we were trying to revive the lady. Well, after the lady was brought back to a stable condition, dee ya pek start to question her of the whole incident. wat happened last night was......... a group of young punks suggested to visit the haunted houses in Changi area. Later that morning, they came to this very scary place called Old Changi Hospital. They decided to explore the place since their motive that night was to see ghost 见鬼! These group of kids obviously doesn't know the height of sky, thickness of the ground started to walk into the hospital through the old and unlocked corridor. The sky was dark but they could still managed to find their way through with the help of the full moon that morning. However, the further they walked in and the longer they would spent inside the eerie hospital, the feeling and atmosphere then was getting more tensed and scary. Suddenly, one of a girl in the group suggested to leave the place as soon as possible because she started to hear voices talking to her. She heard a woman voice complaining that they are very noisy. WWhammm! The rest of the girls there got more tensed and excited after they heard what she claimed she heard. One after another siao cha boh start screaming and running around for the exit like a group of mad dogs inside the building. Well, no one could take this kind of disturbance from tranpasser even for the spirits. Unfortunately, the super star of our story lost one of her shoe while dashing out of the building. The atmosphere then was so tensed that losing a shoe is less important to her now. Eventually, she also threw away her another left over shoe while she was outside the building since it was useless for now because she is going up to a friend's car heading for her home.
They didn't suspect anything unusual after the trip since everyone were still up and walking in one piece. Little did they know that someone in the group has been targeted by a spirit and was now following her home since her luck was not as good at this point of moment. Walking with bare footed, she walked into the lift. She heard strange voices talking to her but tireness has over power her fear. She didn't bother much and continue to walk straight to her bed after closing the main door behind her. Nothing was more important than a sweet drooling dream for her now. It was only in the next morning, which was a Sunday morning that changed her from an ordinary person to an extra ordinary woman. Her elder sister spotted her with a face that doesn't look like her. Meaning, she is not herself and she is possessed! Her elder sister whom is a friend of my temple ki tong, quickly rang up for him and asked him to go over to her home to check on her sister right away. Just when the ki tong was at the foot of the lift landing outside her home, her possessed sister says this to her " 你叫人来抓我?" ( '' Are you getting someone here for me?" ) She said this even before she saw the ki tong, she said this because the spirit could sensed that someone who has super natural power is coming after her, is closing to her. Just when her elder sister was about to dash out of the home for fear, my temple ki tong appeared infront of her like a hero for now. The ki tong has a pair of yin yang eyes 阴阳眼 as such, he was sure that a lady spirit is now possessing on her sister's body. Not to give any chances to the spirit, my ki tong quickly locked her wrist to avoid the spirit from escaping from the body and pulled her straight to our temple for justics. ( a fresh spirit can escape from punishment by getting out of the victim body thus we are taught by our deity a way to lock the spirit from running away )
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