Precautions during
Hungry Ghost Month – part 2
Offerings of food for
Hungry Ghost Month
Millions of
people of which had encountered spooky and unbelievable incidents from deceased
relatives but also the restless spirits of people who had untimely deaths. The
precautions are tips for people to follow and prevent them from such unworldly incidents.
The other precautions for that month are :
5) do not
visit the sick in hospital, attend a funeral, move house or to start a business.
6) do not go
camping (especially tress with large long and overhanging leaves) as they contain yin energies. This energy signifies
darkness, stillness as opposed to brightness and laughter which is the yang
energy.
7) do not
simply open the main door all night (negative energy!)
8) do not
wear black or red clothes (not even red underwear)
9) do not
travel outstation or go swimming (and meet up with the water ghost, air hantu in Bahasa or sui qwai in Chinese). These waters
ghosts are situated at the seas, rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps or even ditches.
They lived underneath the water and they could have died from drowning or simply
missing.
Anyway, I
better stop at Precaution no. 9 (which I will continue as Part 3 later) as I
have another spooky tale about an incident of a water ghost in the month during
the Hungry Ghost month.
Aden Yoo, a
teenager lives a small town of Gemencheh at Negeri Sembilan which is located
about 30 km from the much larger town of Tampin. It must be a weekend when Aden
and his friends decided to go to a pond nearby for fishing during the Hungry
Ghost month without telling their parents about their activities.
Aden and his
friends were scattered around the deserted large pond amidst the over-grown weeds
busy fishing, when Aden wanted to go and pee. Sum, one of Aden’s friend, also
decided that he also have to go pee. While they were walking from the pond, Sum
suddenly thought of a competition between them – to see who can pee the
furthest. Aden and Sum went to the edge of the pond and pee laughing together.
When Aden
went to sleep that night at his house, he had a weird and frightening dream. He
found himself at the same pond but there was a blurry dark figure (can’t see
the face) who seem to be really absolutely furious at Aden.
His elder
brother woke up the next morning and he shouted angrily at Aden saying there he
must be one who created a large puddle of water around the floor of their
bedroom. Aden looked in surprise at the huge puddle of water but his bed,
blanket and mattress was bone dry.
His parents,
elder brother and Aden went to check but could not find any water marks on the
wall and ceiling around the bedroom. Aden also got a call that day from Sum
telling him that he also had a nightmare about the pond and he had painful bright
red rashes around his genitals.
“Aiyooooooo!...syeh, syeh” screamed Aden’s mother when he finally
told his parents about the trip with his friends to the pond and the peeing
incident. They took Aden to a Taoist temple where he drank from a glass of water
mixed with burnt paper ashes. The medium said that the water ghost was angry at
them for pissing at the pond. Aden and Sum also had to go to the pond with some
offerings and apologize to what they done.
Both Aden and Sum recovered after a week.
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